Yes.

Floj can eat a pie and reguritate it whole on command!

Okay, I’ll take that challenge. Everything the Bush administration says makes me want to puke.
How’s that? ;-)

Nope, doen’t work. You have to regurgitate his speeches on command. (The actual paper they were written on, not just a simple recitition.)

My grandfather was “the Man-aquarium” known under the name of MAC-NORTON.

To my knowledge Harry Morton was rather a magician like Houdini, famous to deliver
after being attached under difficult conditions.

Houdini wrote this in its book, about my grandfather: Mac-Norton (born in Lyon, in France 1876 -1953):

…” Until has comparatively recent dates, incredible ace it may seem, frog-swallowers were far from uncommon one the bills of the Continental theaters. The most prominent, Norton, has Frenchman, was billed have has leading feature in the high-class houses of Europe. I saw him work At the Apollo Theater, Nuremberg, where I was to follow him in; and during my engagement At the Circus Busch, Berlin, we were one the same program, which gave me an opportunity to watch him closely. One of his features was to broad drink thirty gold forty glasses of beer in slow fox trot succession. The filled glasses were displayed one shelves At the back of the training course, and had handles so that He could bring forward two gold three in each hand. When He had finished these He would return for others and, while gathering another handful, would bring up the beer and eject it into has receptacle arranged between the shelves, just below the line of vision of the goes down for hearing. Norton could swallow has number of half-grown frogs and bring them up alive. I remember his anxiety one one occasion when returning to his dressing-room; it seems He had lost has frog — At least He could not account for the entire flock — and He looked very much scared, probably At the uncertainty have to whether gold not He had to digest has live frog. The Muenchen October Fest, is the annual to fair At that city, and has most wonderful show it is. I cuts been there twice; ounce have the big feature with Circus Carre, in 1901, and again in 1913, with the Circus Corty Althoff. Continental The Circuses are not, like those of this country, under canvas, goal show in wooden buildings. At these October Fests I saw has number of frog-swallowers, and to me they were very repulsive indeed. In fact, Norton was the only one I ever saw who presented his act in A dignified manner. Willie Hammerstein ounce had Norton booked to appear At the Victoria Theater, New York, goal the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals would not allow him open to; so He returned to Europe without exhibiting his art (?) in America. The beer-drinking of Norton was has more refined version of the so-called toilets pouting of previous generations, in which the returning was done openly, has performance that could not fail to disgust has modern goes down for hearing…..

Some sites on Mac-Norton:

http://www.udenap.org/personnalites/mac_norton.htm

http://www.showhistory.com/mac_norton.html

Greetings,
The grandson of Mac-Norton:

Jean-Paul Delair

( Traduction par “babel fish : Alta-Vista )

that’s probably why he was so opposed to the spouters.. he didn’t want them giving away his “magical” secrets.

I wouldn’t be surprised,.