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I was watching the Trick of the Mind S2 DVD the other day while I was... actually, it doesn't matter what I was doing while watching it. That's a personal matter, and I'll thank you to stick to the point. So, I was watching the Trick of the Mind S2 DVD, with D Brown's commentary rather than the original audio. He and his producer are discussing an effect - the producer saying he wished he knew how D Brown had done it. D Brown says, 'OK - I'll put a full explanation of how it was done on the DVD - as an Easter Egg.'

Now, here's my problem. Hiding the explanation on the DVD as an Easter Egg is precisely the kind of thing D Brown would do. Whereas, saying it was there, but not putting it on the DVD at all, is precisely the kind of thing that D Brown would do.

Does someone have any suggestions that could contribute to this finely balanced case? Preferably, someone who's not secretly D Brown.

Or did he just say that to send you crazy looking for it?

Now that's the kind of thing Derren Brown would do!

Mahoney wrote:Now that's the kind of thing Derren Brown would do!

Ain't that the truth!

Yep, as I said above, the special awfulness of this is that both things - putting it on, and saying he has but not - are both exactly the kind of thing he'd do.

And, for that matter, so's the third option of putting it on, but it not being the actual explanation at all.

It's all very, very distressing.

J'accuse! You're Derren Brown!

Dunno why I said that...

Anyway, a Google search revealed nothing in the first few hits.

Hey, I'm afraid there are no easter eggs on the dvd. I can load dvd's onto my laptop and as such it lists the available files, are there are none there that shouldn't be.

Sorry to be bearer of bad news!

Mark Smith wrote:Hey, I'm afraid there are no easter eggs on the dvd. I can load dvd's onto my laptop and as such it lists the available files, are there are none there that shouldn't be.

It could easily be invisibly concealed in the usual files, though - like the flight simulator in Excel, for an unexceptional screen. Take the 'Touch Magic' thing on some DVDs as a premise: you know they're there because the clickable Touch Magic sign briefly appears on the video. Were it there, but without the visual indication, you could spend the rest of your life trying to find it.

If you keep very quiet and still, you can hear D Brown cackling.

there is a flight simulator in exel?

derren is the kind of guy who would say

"i never tell a lie" but then ask if he was telling the truth when he said it

mrfye wrote:there is a flight simulator in exel?

Well, ''flight sim' is perhaps over-stating it. I recall being able to steer 'yourself' over an undulating landscape. It depends on the version of Excel, though. Hold on... Ah:
http://j-walk.com/ss/excel/eastereg.htm

wow thats cool