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This Made the Huffington Post!

Postby Richard Kaufman » August 27th, 2015, 12:07 pm

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Re: This Made the Huffington Post!

Postby MagicbyAlfred » August 27th, 2015, 12:22 pm

AWESOME! So creative and hilarious, and i love productions from flash paper, as do spectators. I guess the only thing that could have topped his magical proposal entertainment-wise would have been if she pulled out a string from her mouth with the letters, "N-O."

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Re: This Made the Huffington Post!

Postby P.T.Widdle » August 27th, 2015, 12:44 pm

First blogged about in BoingBoing, which I posted in the BoingBoing thread yesterday. Just sayin. :)

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Re: This Made the Huffington Post!

Postby Richard Kaufman » August 27th, 2015, 1:39 pm

Didn't notice your post. Sorry.
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Re: This Made the Huffington Post!

Postby CraigMitchell » August 27th, 2015, 3:43 pm

Alphabet soup from mouth ... this poor woman.

Do magicians have no class.

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Re: This Made the Huffington Post!

Postby Richard Kaufman » August 27th, 2015, 4:02 pm

Craig, this was a very creative way to propose. I bet the woman in question was quite thrilled at the effort her fiance made.

If you ever get married, then I will be more willing to accept your critical comments on the matter, since coming from a different culture and continent, and merely making snarky remarks without having any first-hand experience in such matters, doesn't lend your opinion much validity.
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Re: This Made the Huffington Post!

Postby CraigMitchell » August 28th, 2015, 4:39 pm

Sorry, Richard ... I showed this video to a number of my friends as I was genuinely interested as to how they perceived the magic in such a setting ( it can so often come across as cheesy ) - and maybe its an American cultural difference, but not a single one of them found the thought of shoving a can of alphabet spaghetti in ones mouth as a magic trick romantic at all.

Sure - it was creative - but classy ... at least at this end of the world ... not so much ;-)

This though was tons of fun:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_v7QrIW0zY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=919&v=ECRqF4BHkGk

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Re: This Made the Huffington Post!

Postby erdnasephile » August 28th, 2015, 5:50 pm

It was very creative, and I'm glad it worked out for him (He chose his "victim" well apparently :D )

However, public proposals have always given me the willies ever since I saw this:



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Re: This Made the Huffington Post!

Postby Jonathan Pendragon » August 28th, 2015, 10:56 pm

West threatened to say "NO!" if I proposed to her onstage, so I did it in the Seance Room at the Magic Castle.

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Re: This Made the Huffington Post!

Postby Richard Kaufman » August 29th, 2015, 2:01 am

I think South African and American culture have zero to do with one another.
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Re: This Made the Huffington Post!

Postby Ian Kendall » August 29th, 2015, 3:20 am

This caused a massive buzz here. I have heard no negative comments at all.

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Re: This Made the Huffington Post!

Postby erdnasephile » August 29th, 2015, 8:09 am

I was going to post a video of the best magic themed proposal I've seen: magician Mike Michaels reaching through the glass wall of a casino aquarium to get the engagement ring.

However, in trying to Google this, I came across something even stranger. Apparently, the bride-to-be is a horror movie aficionado who decided last October to take a walking tour of the locations where "Halloween" was filmed. Little did she know...



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Re: This Made the Huffington Post!

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