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Permalink Reply by David Parke on January 10, 2010 at 12:44pm

LOL...is the Telegraph a real newspaper or is it like the Onion?

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Permalink Reply by Kevin on January 10, 2010 at 1:11pm

haha

Oh geez...

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Permalink Reply by Michael Ellner on January 10, 2010 at 2:12pm

Hi Dave,
I think of the Telegraph as low grade tabloid and the Onion as High Test satire --

Warmest regards,
me

Dave Parke said:

LOL...is the Telegraph a real newspaper or is it like the Onion?

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Permalink Reply by Graham Old on January 10, 2010 at 2:25pm

Clearly a publicity thing.

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Permalink Reply by Saul Rosenfeld on January 10, 2010 at 3:08pm

Dave,

James Malone posted this very same link in his blog of several days ago titled "Self Hypnosis Dangers?"
Here was my reply:


Now why would you think this article could possibly "reinforce some negative suggestions about hypnosis"?
Was it the prospect of Hannibal trying self-hypnosis and then inadvertently turning himself into a hapless zombie trapped in front of a mirror- where he presumably would have died of dehydration and/or starvation had his wife not fortuitously happened upon the bizarre scene?
Or was it perhaps the accompanying photo of Hannibal the Mad Hypnotist spouting water from those holes in his cheeks, and tatted up and/or pierced over every inch of his body?
Was it the crazy space cadet goggles, the freakishly distended earlobes, the railroad spike (?) driven under his lip?
Could it possibly be the association of hypnosis with weird denizens who perform at the "Circus of Horrors"?
Was it his chilling admission of not knowing where those "missing five hours" had gone while he was hypnotized?
Or perhaps the fact that "Doctor Ray Roberts" had to supply Hannibal's wife with "a key word should anything similar happen again"?
That last bit seems a bit superfluous seeing as how Hannibal "has learned his lesson and now only practices auto suggestion when his wife is around"...

JEEZ!!!

Saul

www.HistoryOfHypnotism.com

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Permalink Reply by Fable Goodman on January 10, 2010 at 4:54pm

hahaha
when I go for my breakfast in a
cafe called "Rumbling Tums"
I get to read the papers,
if I so desire.

I got to read this story
from several different
UK papers.

It was clearly a publicity stunt to get people to come along to the show,
which can best be desribed, as gothic, grotesque,
circus, with rock music

nothing much to do with hypnosis,
in any sense of the word,
that we would
understand.

just a good clean
publicity stunt.

love and hugs,

Fable

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Permalink Reply by Doreen Cohanim C.Ht on January 10, 2010 at 5:04pm

OMG Ian and Dave...lol

Thanks for the unusual news :)

Doreen Cohanim C.Ht

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Permalink Reply by Henxy on January 11, 2010 at 4:14am

The Telegraph is usually more sensible than the tabloids...
Can't possibly comment on what happened here though, although the ridiculous parts are quoted, rather than stated as fact, as the tabloids tend to!

Dave Parke said:

LOL...is the Telegraph a real newspaper or is it like the Onion?

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Permalink Reply by Henxy on January 11, 2010 at 4:17am

If you knew the area this happened in, you'd understand...
St Mary's is actually known locally as 'The Area'; prostitution giving it its name, followed closely by an interesting scene of mixed strangeness...

And Southampton General Hospital? The best hospital in the world! ;-)

Ian Jay said:

This link on the same page caught my eye, and I wondered if it was the same person? ;-)

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/6946257/Man...

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Permalink Reply by Hugh Cole on January 11, 2010 at 9:07am

Just remember that he is some mother's son and she love's him (I hope). I wonder if that violates the Hypnotism act of 1956.


Hugh Cole
Texas Tranceman

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