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- December 10th, 2008, 12:17 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: the "pop" in decks
- Replies: 10
- Views: 3718
Re: the "pop" in decks
Un-popping a deck: Faro the deck together half face up, half face down. Put in card box and put in a tight card guard/clip. Place in freezer over night. (will work sans clip, butt, clip is better) The cold and moisture seems to work wonders. I have done this dozens of times. It even worked on an old...
- September 13th, 2008, 2:51 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: Pseudonyms
- Replies: 32
- Views: 5414
Re: Pseudonyms
Jason England wrote:I liken internet pseudonyms to 21st Century CB handles. They're for morons.
Jason
That's a big 10-4 "Teddy Bear!"
This is "sole man"
over and out
- September 12th, 2008, 1:01 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: Who am I???
- Replies: 27
- Views: 5884
- August 26th, 2008, 3:46 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: Olympic Gold
- Replies: 20
- Views: 3645
- July 17th, 2008, 2:20 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Best Quote
- Replies: 184
- Views: 58253
Re: Best Quote
Lemniscate wrote:(do a search for fruit salad and look for his name for the original post).
Now that's a quote! :grin:
- June 6th, 2008, 7:16 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Definitions
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2162
- April 27th, 2008, 2:36 am
- Forum: Collector's Marketplace
- Topic: Ebay Auction Mnemonica Marked Deck
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1389
Re: Ebay Auction Mnemonica Marked Deck
Since the Farrow shuffle is so important
does this use the Mia Farrow shuffle? Or the other Hollywood shuffle "the Faro Fawcett" shuffle.
ps.... x-acto knife. :crazy:
- March 30th, 2008, 12:05 am
- Forum: Feature Articles
- Topic: Hooker Article
- Replies: 58
- Views: 20312
- March 4th, 2008, 3:16 pm
- Forum: Collector's Marketplace
- Topic: All 4 Elmsley DVDs for a song
- Replies: 2
- Views: 585
Re: All 4 Elmsley DVDs for a song
I thought you never watched the third one... but watched the first one twice.
(couldn't resist)
:D
(couldn't resist)
:D
- February 23rd, 2008, 10:39 pm
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: Blackpool - Day Two
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1480
Re: Blackpool - Day Two
Craig,
Enjoying your reports/reviews. They are very refreshing and honest. Very Annemannesque.
Although when I think of Blackpool I think of Motorcycle racing. :D
Enjoying your reports/reviews. They are very refreshing and honest. Very Annemannesque.
Although when I think of Blackpool I think of Motorcycle racing. :D
- February 19th, 2008, 8:31 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: March Issue of Genii Now in the Mail
- Replies: 83
- Views: 18089
Re: March Issue of Genii Now in the Mail
Got the shop copies today.
Richard, we had always put our copies in magazine bags. Thanks for bagging them for us!!
eddy
Richard, we had always put our copies in magazine bags. Thanks for bagging them for us!!
eddy
- February 15th, 2008, 4:35 pm
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: FISM 2009 Venue Change !
- Replies: 34
- Views: 4658
Re: FISM 2009 Venue Change !
I know lots of magi use animals and such... but,
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- February 8th, 2008, 8:37 pm
- Forum: Columns
- Topic: My Genii Routine
- Replies: 21
- Views: 8561
Re: My Genii Routine
Look for the re-run... Wilbur takes Ed to a S.A.M. convention to enter the magic contest. Their act is silly T.V. comedy(no magic). They do show Blackstone Sr.(vanishing bird cage with repeat),Dick Zimmerman(Ring and string dancing thing) and Lou does a fast cups and balls. Very cool. Ed(Mr. if you ...
- February 8th, 2008, 8:53 am
- Forum: Children's Entertainment
- Topic: Haunted Hank
- Replies: 32
- Views: 39217
Re: Haunted Hank
Originally posted by Spellbinder: combining playing cards with Glorpy is pretty much out unless you're performing for older kids. I know a twelve-year old who still refers to the Club suit as "Puppy-dog Paws." But they generally can't recognize one card from another and when they pick a c...
- February 4th, 2008, 12:38 am
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: Angel ripped on Mad TV
- Replies: 19
- Views: 4237
- February 3rd, 2008, 9:34 am
- Forum: Magic History and Anecdotes
- Topic: 10 VERY best you've ever seen
- Replies: 78
- Views: 16198
Re: 10 VERY best you've ever seen
1 Dave
2 Tommy
3 Eddie
4 John
5 John
6 Derek
7 Jason
8 Mike
9 Bill
10 David
Eddy
2 Tommy
3 Eddie
4 John
5 John
6 Derek
7 Jason
8 Mike
9 Bill
10 David
Eddy
- January 23rd, 2008, 6:41 pm
- Forum: Magic History and Anecdotes
- Topic: John Carney is 50 today!
- Replies: 26
- Views: 5685
- January 17th, 2008, 4:00 pm
- Forum: Close-Up Magic
- Topic: Anyone know the name of this effect?
- Replies: 32
- Views: 6333
Re: Anyone know the name of this effect?
In my copy of "Dai Vernon's Ultimate Card Secrets" by Lewis Ganson Vernon's Variant is on page 226. The magic from Ireland section.
Ed
Ed
- January 17th, 2008, 2:04 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Welcome Back, Friends ...
- Replies: 105
- Views: 23178
- January 16th, 2008, 9:08 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Welcome Back, Friends ...
- Replies: 105
- Views: 23178
- August 18th, 2005, 9:57 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Video Critique
- Replies: 25
- Views: 3276
Re: Video Critique
when the song say's "F***-em and their laws!" I think it was refering to the laws of good magic....
- August 14th, 2005, 9:31 pm
- Forum: Columns
- Topic: Turner's review of Bairefoot's DVD
- Replies: 44
- Views: 14461
- April 14th, 2005, 6:58 pm
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: Arranging your magic library
- Replies: 24
- Views: 3310
Re: Arranging your magic library
All my Kaufman books on one shelf. All Marlo on another. Old rare cool on another( like 1st edition Shhh it's a secret). paperback shelf. asst hard back shelf. related arts shelf (gambling, juggling, comedy, ) por* in box under there .... at least this month. My book shelves are my happy rubik's cub...
- March 30th, 2005, 8:20 am
- Forum: Close-Up Magic
- Topic: Help... where can I find The Mcmillan Switch
- Replies: 31
- Views: 11005
Re: Help... where can I find The Mcmillan Switch
Comming into this discuccion way late but... I recently ran into Dan MacMillian (correct spelling) and well he seemed a little befuddled that his switch was in "Shade"... He's a very quirky secretive guy. I will say this. The only two people (other than Dan) I have seen do this switch with...
- November 29th, 2003, 12:01 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: Too many ads in Genii!
- Replies: 50
- Views: 4788
Re: Too many ads in Genii!
I just read a copy of "Adbusters" today. What a weird magazine. I did notice MANY advertisments for their web site and themselves... so it's "no adds ...unless of course they are for us."
:whack:
:whack:
- September 16th, 2003, 11:20 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Annemann's Russian Roulette
- Replies: 3
- Views: 855
Re: Annemann's Russian Roulette
Annemann didn't do a Russian roulette. He did a bullet catch. There IS a difference. It wasn't explained in the Annemann issue of Genii(Vol.56, number 1 Nov. 1992). It(the bullet catch) was explained in Orville Meyer's "Magic in the Modern Manner" I asked Orville about this one day... he j...
- May 4th, 2003, 10:25 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: favourite illustrations
- Replies: 58
- Views: 9161
Re: Wily Jon?
I think he is the curator of a lost almost mythical cardician art gallery. "the Marlovian Institute of Pasteboard Studies". Well worth the price of admission.
:cool: ;) :cool:
:cool: ;) :cool:
- October 9th, 2002, 9:44 pm
- Forum: Close-Up Magic
- Topic: What is your favorite opener?
- Replies: 20
- Views: 2609
Re: What is your favorite opener?
I do have a question... Why does it have to be "killer"? How about amazing, wonderful, magical,mysterious. At a recent convention all I heard was "killer, this kills, this slays them, This punches them in the face slaps them around and spanks their a$$... ok I made up the last one... ...
- October 3rd, 2002, 3:53 pm
- Forum: Book of The Month Club
- Topic: The Book of the Month: The Amateur Magician's Handbook
- Replies: 54
- Views: 83624
Re: The Book of the Month: The Amateur Magician's Handbook
A hidden treasure: Cigarette Magic! I purchased my copy from a library sale of used books in 1976. I was in the 8th grade, living in Germany. The weird part is, someone removed the whole chapter on cigarette magic! Those censors! I finally found a copy at a different library and was thrilled to lear...
- October 3rd, 2002, 3:07 pm
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: Dan Huffman??
- Replies: 12
- Views: 1519
Re: Dan Huffman??
That would be a big change of pace... from the two parades... I always wondered what became of this guy too.
The nose looks a little different, but ya never know. Maybe he worked out a way to do Le Petomaine the Sunday school version! :p :confused: :p
The nose looks a little different, but ya never know. Maybe he worked out a way to do Le Petomaine the Sunday school version! :p :confused: :p
- October 2nd, 2002, 2:44 pm
- Forum: Close-Up Magic
- Topic: card man hell eh?
- Replies: 41
- Views: 5864
Re: card man hell eh?
1st to Cap: I think if you made your point in less words it may have made more sense....? I personally think there is a place for flourishes in magic... to what extreme is up to each person. Those who don't are not wrong, they just have a different point of view. Also you said: for the inventors and...
- October 1st, 2002, 11:55 pm
- Forum: Close-Up Magic
- Topic: What's in your pockets?
- Replies: 35
- Views: 3316
Re: What's in your pockets?
Richard said:
I always have a deck and a dollar size batman coin! cuz I ain't buyin' the drinks :p .
Ed
Is that the same deck after all those years? It must look like one of Jerry Andrus' decks!A deck of ordinary playing cards has resided in my front trousers pocket since the age of 14
I always have a deck and a dollar size batman coin! cuz I ain't buyin' the drinks :p .
Ed
- September 25th, 2002, 7:21 am
- Forum: Close-Up Magic
- Topic: Leipzig, Skinner and you!
- Replies: 3
- Views: 789
Re: Leipzig, Skinner and you!
Oddly I had just (re)read that issue today. It was an excellent issue. I would add people love being fooled by a gentleman who loves magic, and who isn't afraid to call him or herself a magician.
ed
ed
- September 21st, 2002, 9:08 pm
- Forum: Mentalism & Mental Magic
- Topic: Mentalism publications
- Replies: 111
- Views: 16109
Re: Mentalism publications
I think the JINX was a good one. It had it all mentalism(was it even called that then?) angst, honest reviews of other magicians and CARD tricks... yea baby! :p :p
- September 20th, 2002, 9:12 pm
- Forum: Close-Up Magic
- Topic: Splitting a Card
- Replies: 20
- Views: 6821
Re: Splitting a Card
here is the learning curve...
Tap, tap, tap.... peel, peel.... crap!
Tap, tap, tap.... peel, peel.... crap!
Tap, tap, tap.... peel, peel.... sh*t!
Tap, tap, tap.... peel, peel.... $#%*!!
Tap, tap, tap.... peel, peel, peel...YES!
One down... now repeat.
Tap, tap, tap.... peel, peel.... crap!
Tap, tap, tap.... peel, peel.... crap!
Tap, tap, tap.... peel, peel.... sh*t!
Tap, tap, tap.... peel, peel.... $#%*!!
Tap, tap, tap.... peel, peel, peel...YES!
One down... now repeat.
- August 27th, 2002, 3:13 pm
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: Criss Angel Escapes!
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1162
Re: Criss Angel Escapes!
It was weak theater at best. His call out challenge to "other" magicians was even more squishy than his water soaked hands. On the other hand I did enjoy the Good Morning America guy's reaction to the cloudy seemingly urine mixed water.... ewh! Then they went back to the studio where it wa...
- August 23rd, 2002, 11:16 pm
- Forum: Close-Up Magic
- Topic: One Non-Card Trick
- Replies: 20
- Views: 3368
Re: One Non-Card Trick
I would do the trick in the "Our Monthly Telephone" column. On page 401 from the September, 1907 issue of "The Wizard" Vol.3-no.25.
It uses 4 little pieces of paper and kills!
:genii: :cool:
It uses 4 little pieces of paper and kills!
:genii: :cool:
- August 20th, 2002, 5:13 pm
- Forum: Close-Up Magic
- Topic: half dollars no longer good?
- Replies: 46
- Views: 5028
Re: half dollars no longer good?
Or vice/versa! ;) ;)How sad. A perfectly good chance for a bunch of great coin magic, and you have to ruin it by bringing out a deck of cards.
- August 19th, 2002, 10:50 pm
- Forum: Close-Up Magic
- Topic: half dollars no longer good?
- Replies: 46
- Views: 5028
Re: half dollars no longer good?
O.K. Here is a real radical idea! Use NEW 2002 half dollars. That's right folkerinos they still make 'em. Go buy a big fat roll and use them to buy stuff..... Start USING them... for everyday stuff. You could be real cutting edge and say "Hey LOOK did you know they still made these coins?"...