Copperfield says he's found Fountain of Youth

[ivanbo2003]

<!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>By Jane Sutton<br><br>MIAMI (Reuters) - The man who made the Statue of Liberty appear to vanish may soon claim to do the same for unsightly bags and wrinkles.<br><br>Master illusionist David Copperfield says he has found the "Fountain of Youth" in the southern Bahamas, amid a cluster of four tiny islands he recently bought for $50 million.<br><br>One of his islands in the Exuma chain, Musha Cay, is a private resort that rents for up to $300,000 a week and the other islands serve as buffers to keep prying eyes away from celebrity guests on the white sand beaches.<br><br>Copperfield is coy about his reasons for the Fountain of Youth claim, but the man best known for entertaining with grand deception insists his archipelago also contains the legendary waters that bestow perpetual youth. Seriously.<br><br>"I've discovered a true phenomenon," he told Reuters in a telephone interview. "You can take dead leaves, they come in contact with the water, they become full of life again. ... Bugs or insects that are near death, come in contact with the water, they'll fly away. It's an amazing thing, very, very exciting."<br><br>Copperfield, who turns 50 next month, said he had hired biologists and geologists to examine its potential effect on humans but he's not inviting visitors to swim in or drink from it just yet.<br><br>© Reuters 2006. All Rights Reserved.<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=topNews&storyID=2006-08-15T153212Z_01_N14323597_RTRUKOC_0_US-COPPERFIELD.XML">today.reuters.com/news/ar...RFIELD.XML</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--> <p></p><i></i>

[johnny nemo]

If there's any truth to it, it will be one of the greatest discoveries ever and will make Ponce DeLeon roll in his grave. <br><br>I wonder if it's anything like the lithium pools that Hemingway's brother, Leicester found in the Bimini Islands, in the Bahamas, near Florida.<br>I can't find any mention of it online, but I saw it on "In Search Of....(Atlantis)", when I was a kid.<br><br>He swam around in one of the pools and claimed that it cured all manner of pains and made people feel young and energetic, which was due to the high levels of lithium in the water.<br><br>That was before he created his own country of "New Atlantis",.<br>The country was an 8x30 raft.<br>Hahahaha.<br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://anecdotage.com/index.php?aid=18948">anecdotage.com/index.php?aid=18948</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br><!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>In 1964, Leicester Hemingway (Ernest Hemingway's little brother) built an 8-by-30 foot floating bamboo platform, dubbed it "New Atlantis," towed it seven miles off the coast of Jamaica, and anchored it to the ocean floor with a Ford engine block. "I can stand on the platform, walk around on it, and salute the flag, all of which I do periodically," he told reporters. "There are no taxes here, because taxes are for people not smart enough to start their own countries."</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--> <p></p><i>Edited by: <A HREF=http://p216.ezboard.com/brigorousintuition.showUserPublicProfile?gid=johnnynemo>johnny nemo</A> at: 8/16/06 3:23 pm<br></i>

[bvonahsen]

Ummmm yeah...... it's called "separating rich white women from their money". The only true fountain of youth. <p></p><i></i>

[juno jones]

There's a bunch of Lithium springs in central Il. Used to be a bunch of resorts built around them but they've pretty much disappeared in to the woods. Might be the time to buy up some prime Shelby county eh? <!--EZCODE EMOTICON START :lol --><img src=http://www.ezboard.com/images/emoticons/laugh.gif ALT=":lol"><!--EZCODE EMOTICON END--> <p></p><i></i>