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December 22, 2008

Flirting With Magic: David Blaine's Inspiration Found

Before Mystery, before The Game, before David Blaine, before the movie Flirting With Disaster, there was Flirting With Magic, a how-to video, book and "course" from who-knows-when about using magic to get into the pants of ladies:

Via my favorite video-store-going-out-of-business-sale-raiding site, everythingisterrible, who need to go ahead and SLOW DOWN or we're going to run out of unintentionally funny videos from the '80s and '90s in approximately April of 2010.

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I like how John Waters hid his lisp when he said "I'm not a weirdo."

Posted by: Beefy profile link at 12/22/08 5:40 PM | Reply
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Adam

Ladies! Stop molesting that little boy!

Posted by: Adam profile link at 12/22/08 9:57 PM | Reply
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A young Mystery at 1:41?
I love the way the John Walters guy says "Pssshht....magic!" like a total dickweed at :58. Way to slay the ladies, dude!

Posted by: Ant at 12/22/08 10:22 PM | Reply
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Elliot

Check out blond hair, brown moustache man at 1:30.

I know the 80s was supposed to be horrible for fashion and style and all, but really? REALLY?

Posted by: Elliot profile link at 12/24/08 1:07 AM | Reply
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Becca

ewwww..... i think i caught something.

Posted by: Becca profile link at 12/24/08 2:21 PM | Reply
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Hilarious...but check out the real deal at PUMASkills com

Posted by: PUMA Skills at 12/29/08 1:48 PM | Reply
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