Any Magicians On The Soapbox?

Colorado Ryder

Who the hell goes into a bank and pulls out a deck of cards and says 'I do magic'?

Carrera

I do.
So does David Blaine for that matter but, to be honest, I ain't in Blaine's class.
Now, talking of being extrovert and David Blaine, did you hear about him sitting in a glass greenhouse in the middle of London? The poor guy was pelted with eggs by the crowds below.

MountainPro

class remedial 1b,

yes very few people manage to fall to such a pitiful level...(i could name a couple though)

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MountainPro

i remember one time david copperfield, the great magician that could make a 747 jumbo jet disappear and could walk through the great wall of china, got trapped in the elevator (lift) of his gazzillion storey mansion.

the lift engineers must have been pissing themselves..

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Carrera

I encountered Copperfield in St Petersburg when I was over in Russia. Copperfield has his family roots in this city and had put on a stage show for the public.
The guy who really makes me laugh though is Jamie Kennedy. He has a show called the Jamie Kennedy experiment where he makes fools out of the public and sets people up.

jhuskey

Carrera! Wern't you paying attention?

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Colorado Ryder

I was just making sure I read his post correctly.

Carrera

O.K. I'll share a trick with you guys. This is one of David Blaine's:

In this effect David Blaine finds a chosen card by throwing the deck of cards at a cafe' window. As the cards fall to the ground the chosen card is seen to be sticking to the cafe' window - closer examination and the card is found to be stuck to the inside of the window !

Preparation.

You require two matching cards (backs and face), one of these cards has to be secretly positioned beforehand, in the place you intend to magically produce the 'chosen' card, ie; inside the cafe' window.

Working:

With the first matching card positioned you are ready to 'force' the second card on your willing victim !

Have the card memorised and returned to the deck - shuffle the deck and control the 'forced' card back to the top. You could at this point ask your audience if they believe in 'Mind over Matter' or the likelihood of their card materialising in some other place ' etc, etc.

Palm-off the twin card and toss the whole deck at the window.

As your audience turns to see the results of your incredulous deck tossing behaviour, pocket the palmed card.

Magnificent !, now they also find that the card is on the inside of the window !!!!

EoinC

Which reminds me of the King who lived in a glasshouse. His hobby was to collect Royal Thrones. He had them stacked up all around the room and just kept making the stacks higher and higher. One day, the wind blew in through the open door and the stacks started wobbling....ooooh! Yes, they came crashing down, destroying the glasshouse in the process. The lesson? - People who live in glasshouses shouldn't stow thrones! Ba-booom....Wasn't really worth the wait, was it?

EoinC

I just want to know which bank it is that has female assistants in bikini's. That raises my interest rate.

jhuskey

I have told you before it's "people that live in glass houses shouldn't get stoned".

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Carrera

Well, I can tell you that Latvia is very interesting. In Riga (the capital) the local Mcdonalds has a system whereby the female assistants wear short skirts. They look like bunny girls.
Moreover the female supervisors wear even shorter skirts but in different colours.
Estonia is only across the border but in Tallinn the Mcdonalds girls don't go in for these skimpy outfits at all and wear pants instead.