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Credit for this line please

Postby erdnasephile » October 30th, 2014, 9:43 am

All:

Does anyone know the origin of the line (when displaying a deck of cards): "They're all here. They're all different" or is this line in the public domain?

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Re: Credit for this line please

Postby Q. Kumber » October 30th, 2014, 9:53 am

I believe Carl Hertz got it from Robert-Houdin and Houdini was convinced it wasn't original with Houdin.
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Re: Credit for this line please

Postby Dustin Stinett » October 30th, 2014, 10:44 am

But Marlo was probably the first to put it into print, so ...
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Re: Credit for this line please

Postby Richard Kaufman » October 30th, 2014, 12:17 pm

Alley Oop devised it.
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Re: Credit for this line please

Postby erdnasephile » October 30th, 2014, 1:22 pm

OK, you guys are killing me! :mrgreen:

Sorry for the dumb question--public domain it is.
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Re: Credit for this line please

Postby Pepka » November 18th, 2014, 6:19 am

Dustin Stinett wrote:But Marlo was probably the first to put it into print, so ...

And in the end, that's what really matters.
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