"BLUE" JIMMY: INVESTIGATOR OF THE BIZARRE
BLIND DOG OZZY: NEUROTIC CHIHUAHUA
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| LULU HURST |
"BLUE" JIMMY: I hope nobody came to this blog expecting anything of a ... ahem, risque' nature! ... "MAGNETIC GIRLS AND STRONG MEN!!!"
BLIND DOG OZZY: DUDE, I have a Beta video tape from the 80's with that same title! I think it had Tracy Lords! ...
"BLUE" JIMMY: No, no, no, this article deals with young girls in the late 1800's who turned the scientific community on it's head with demonstrations of paranormal powers!!!
BLIND DOG OZZY: Yeah, ... right! ... (wink, wink!).
"BLUE" JIMMY: The whole s**t started with a young girl named Lulu Hurst in the late 1800's, who started giving demonstrations in the Southern and Eastern United States of "magnetic powers" where in an entertaining sideshow, she was able to lift men off the floor, toss them about the stage and defy their strength in incredible ways. She toured the United States and Europe and performed in front of aristocrats, royalty and MEN OF SCIENCE who were amazed and unable to explain her abilities.
BLIND DOG OZZY: !!!
"BLUE" JIMMY: She quickly became one of the most famous people in America and like anyone who comes across a good thang and starts makin' cash, she spawned many imitators who not only stole her act but even her name!
BLIND DOG OZZY: Thieving b***ches!!!
"BLUE" JIMMY: The most successful of these was probably the teen-aged Dixie Haygood (aka Annie Abbot) who at one performance, happened to encounter The Great Eugene Sandow in the audience (who billed himself as THE WORLD'S STRONGEST MAN) and proceeded to make him look like a weakling!
BLIND DOG OZZY: Man, that's embarrassing!!!
"BLUE" JIMMY: These girls all claimed that they possessed supernatural or "magnetic" powers which they somehow mysteriously acquired when they were children.
BLIND DOG OZZY: I could lick my under parts when I was 3!!!
"BLUE" JIMMY: These girls fooled many people, became famous and made a lot of money but they were eventually exposed as frauds by none other than early practitioners of the martial arts of which there were only a handful in Europe and America at the turn of the 20th Century. Chief among these were practitioners of Jui Jitsu, a Japanese martial art which utilizes joint locks, throws and choke holds which was developed in times of war where punching and kicking were ineffective due to the body armor worn by warriors.
BLIND DOG OZZY: You had to throw muthas to the ground and break their bones and choke them!!!
"BLUE" JIMMY: Martial artists like these recognized that the "supernatural" feats these girls displayed were really the work of leverage and center of gravity techniques martial artists had been using for centuries which allowed a small person to defeat a larger person in combat. One of these was E. W. Barton - Wright (1860 - 1951), who studied Jui jitsu in Japan and developed a martial art he called "Bartitsu."
BLIND DOG OZZY: Which is the martial art Sherlock Holmes uses in the books by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and the films starring Robert Downey Jr. -- Hiiii Yaaaaa!!!
"BLUE" JIMMY: Many expos'es were written (some of which still remain in print to this day) but most accounts say that the girls remained as popular as ever just because people wanted to see for themselves what these girls were doing. This in itself, is a strange phenomenon. Today, there is almost no magic trick which hasn't been explained in print or shown on YouTube yet, people still flock to magic shows because they ...
BLIND DOG OZZY: ... Got to see it for themselves! ... Ohhhhh!!!
"BLUE" JIMMY: I call this the COGNITIVE DISSONANCE RUSH whereby, people who have a certain value, idea or belief are confronted with contradictory information which blows their mind -- and they enjoy it!
BLIND DOG OZZY: Less discriminating people refer to it as a MINDF**K!
"BLUE" JIMMY: Word is, that the novelty eventually wore off and audiences became less cooperative until the girls had to cancel tours and retire.
BLIND DOG OZZY: Just when things was getting good!!!
"BLUE" JIMMY: The point is that we as humans, want to believe that people have talents, abilities, powers that are beyond the norm and we cheer them on like our kids at their Little League game no matter how badly they do! I think this is a good thing! I'm all about human potential! I believe we do have these powers, but we have to sift through the frauds, fakes, con artists and bulls**ters to find the real gems who really got these abilities!
BLIND DOG OZZY: And I'm pretty sure it ain't the lady behind the 7- Eleven with the scary statue of Santa Muerte in her window ... F**k!!!
"BLUE" JIMMY: Sake's Alive!
BLIND DOG OZZY: Wow! Wow!
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BLIND DOG OZZY: Thieving b***ches!!!
"BLUE" JIMMY: The most successful of these was probably the teen-aged Dixie Haygood (aka Annie Abbot) who at one performance, happened to encounter The Great Eugene Sandow in the audience (who billed himself as THE WORLD'S STRONGEST MAN) and proceeded to make him look like a weakling!
BLIND DOG OZZY: Man, that's embarrassing!!!
"BLUE" JIMMY: These girls all claimed that they possessed supernatural or "magnetic" powers which they somehow mysteriously acquired when they were children.
BLIND DOG OZZY: I could lick my under parts when I was 3!!!
"BLUE" JIMMY: These girls fooled many people, became famous and made a lot of money but they were eventually exposed as frauds by none other than early practitioners of the martial arts of which there were only a handful in Europe and America at the turn of the 20th Century. Chief among these were practitioners of Jui Jitsu, a Japanese martial art which utilizes joint locks, throws and choke holds which was developed in times of war where punching and kicking were ineffective due to the body armor worn by warriors.
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| ARMORED WARRIORS |
BLIND DOG OZZY: You had to throw muthas to the ground and break their bones and choke them!!!
"BLUE" JIMMY: Martial artists like these recognized that the "supernatural" feats these girls displayed were really the work of leverage and center of gravity techniques martial artists had been using for centuries which allowed a small person to defeat a larger person in combat. One of these was E. W. Barton - Wright (1860 - 1951), who studied Jui jitsu in Japan and developed a martial art he called "Bartitsu."
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| E.W. BARTON - WRIGHT'S BARTITSU |
BLIND DOG OZZY: Which is the martial art Sherlock Holmes uses in the books by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and the films starring Robert Downey Jr. -- Hiiii Yaaaaa!!!
"BLUE" JIMMY: Many expos'es were written (some of which still remain in print to this day) but most accounts say that the girls remained as popular as ever just because people wanted to see for themselves what these girls were doing. This in itself, is a strange phenomenon. Today, there is almost no magic trick which hasn't been explained in print or shown on YouTube yet, people still flock to magic shows because they ...
BLIND DOG OZZY: ... Got to see it for themselves! ... Ohhhhh!!!
"BLUE" JIMMY: I call this the COGNITIVE DISSONANCE RUSH whereby, people who have a certain value, idea or belief are confronted with contradictory information which blows their mind -- and they enjoy it!
BLIND DOG OZZY: Less discriminating people refer to it as a MINDF**K!
"BLUE" JIMMY: Word is, that the novelty eventually wore off and audiences became less cooperative until the girls had to cancel tours and retire.
BLIND DOG OZZY: Just when things was getting good!!!
"BLUE" JIMMY: The point is that we as humans, want to believe that people have talents, abilities, powers that are beyond the norm and we cheer them on like our kids at their Little League game no matter how badly they do! I think this is a good thing! I'm all about human potential! I believe we do have these powers, but we have to sift through the frauds, fakes, con artists and bulls**ters to find the real gems who really got these abilities!
BLIND DOG OZZY: And I'm pretty sure it ain't the lady behind the 7- Eleven with the scary statue of Santa Muerte in her window ... F**k!!!
"BLUE" JIMMY: Sake's Alive!
BLIND DOG OZZY: Wow! Wow!
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