The Genii Forum

Bob Farmer

Pat's other funny line, used occasionally when turning down a street beggar was, "Do you do magic as a hobby?"

Bob Farmer

I'd like to see the "g" rising out of a lamp like all genies do.

Bob Farmer

I attended the Magic Circle at Chenies Mews when I lived in London in the mid 1970s and there was to my Canadian senses a certain amount of pomposity and old boy vibe. Of course there was much to be learned from some members like Bobby Bernard. And I did spend an amazing evening at a Magic Circle di...

Bob Farmer

I have an earlier edition of this #@#$%^& book. It's @#$%^& amazing.

Bob Farmer

The most magical and baffling rising card I've ever seen (and somewhere I have a Devano Deck) is Jeff McBride's Kundalini Rising Cards. And you can do this with a borrowed deck. No, the spectator cannot name any card but he can take any card (a difference only a magician can appreciate).

Bob Farmer

Under U.K. law there is no specific "work for hire" provision. Instead, the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988 establishes that: (a) Copyright in works created by employees during the course of their employment vests in the employer. (b) For independent contractors, ownership depends...

Bob Farmer

I am continually amazed at how Philippe comes up with references. We may have to preserve his brain in a jar to ensure future rerences are available. Here's a false cut I devised but it may be a reinvention. I was trying to improve the Ose Cut. False Cut the deck as follows: • Consider three positio...

Bob Farmer

I have many happy memories of visiting Davenport's and Tam Shepherd's. Both were truly like visiting a genie inside his bottle.

Bob Farmer

Start with 50 so you know if you are high or low. Then take the median number of which ever group you are in. Then continue that median number choice to nail it.

Bob Farmer

Reveen was my client and we worked together to make it possible for him to open at the Royal York. This was quite an honor for me because it completed a circle that had started when I was about 12. At that time, the Hypnosis Act was still a problem so Reveen was doing a show just across the Ontario ...

Bob Farmer

Thank you all!

Bob Farmer

I'm looking for a reference for a trick I dimly recall. A packet of cards is in play. The magician spells a card and it turns up but whenever the spectator tries to do the same thing, a Joker turns up.

Bob Farmer

Bob Farmer, Box 1262, Brockville, Ontario, Canada K6V 5W2 Bammomagic@cogeco.ca TSUNAMI involves the discovery of a mentally selected card. You bet the spectator one hundred dollars you'll find his card and — YOU LOSE! But then, you turn the tables, find the card and win all the money back! One of th...

Bob Farmer

This is a perfect example of a completely unenforceable law. There is no definition of hypnosis nor is there any indication of how the law is to be enforced. In practice, the Ministry of Health would send a letter ("You bad boy, big brother does not approve of your activities. Please stop immed...

Bob Farmer

I've told the creator he should use his abilities creating magic for laymen rather than working to fool magicians. "Magicians" are not a homogeneous bunch, they range across a spectrum so what might fool one end of the spectrum might not fool the other end.

Bob Farmer

So no girls!?

Bob Farmer

What's the effect? Are girls involved?

Bob Farmer

When I used a particularly graceful and stylish line peppered with odd words in some of my books, I always said it had been created with the "RPG,"--the Racherbaumer Phrase Generator.

Bob Farmer

Thank you for a wonderful essay it reflects many of my interactions with Jon.

Bob Farmer

What terrible news. Jon was a good friend. He was an incredible chronicler of magic and every one of his works is a gem. My condolences to his family and friends. What a massive loss to our world.

Bob Farmer

Consider this effect for a much superior location and identification. AGAOG (Bob Farmer 1997) EFFECT: You hand out a deck to three spectators. They can examine and shuffle it thoroughly. There is nothing wrong with it. It is not prepared, marked, gaffed or wired in any way. It is not stacked and the...

Bob Farmer

For $20 I could buy a copy of Royal Road To Card Magic and have enough left over for a Starbucks latte creamo expresso mocca special.

Bob Farmer

The video should be used as an example of how not to perform magic. Who cares if the guy finds the card, what's really been lost is not the card but an engaging persona. When the guy publishes a method for that, I might spend a few bucks, but I think my money will be safe for some time to come.

Bob Farmer

See the second essay, "A Model Dialogue" on how to react if someone tries this trick on you. However, the first one is pretty funny too.

https://www.magicana.com/sites/default/ ... ay2010.pdf

Bob Farmer

By the time the card is located the spectator can't be.

Bob Farmer

Here's some more background. "The guy" we're talking about was friends with The Great Morton. Apparently, TGM had some moves the guy wanted to learn but TGM refused to tip. They fell out and the guy, who was well connected with the government, told TGM he would put him out of business and ...

Bob Farmer

Mark, you may not know this, but while representing Reveen, I broke the Ontario Hypnosis Act ban on stage hypnosis. It's a great story involving many characters, including The Great Morton, a crazed member of the Hat and Rabbit Club and a guy whose last name was Dedman (which I insisted on pronounci...

Bob Farmer

Thieves will still steal.

Bob Farmer

Well deserved and long overdue.

Bob Farmer

Ian has hit the nail on the head: people with no idea on how to teach, trying to teach. Whether it's writing or videoing, the duffer fails.

Bob Farmer

A historical note: I invented the zodiac sign discovery, later marketed with no credit to me by Ray Grismer. My original title was, "Fate Accompli."

Bob Farmer

I hate instructional videos. Well, maybe not all of them, but most. They are boring and worse, they are boring for long periods of time. An hour of video = one page of instructions. I really don't want to spend hours watching a video on how to do a trick. Of course, there are exceptions (the Vernon ...

Bob Farmer

Bammo Astro Sign From a borrowed shuffled, even incomplete deck, the spectator selects a card which is lost. Then using the spectator's zodiac sign or the spectator's month of birth--things the magician could not possibly know--the card is tracked down. Also works with Tarot cards. No sleights. Comp...

Bob Farmer

Will it still work with my Commodore 64?

Bob Farmer

Romaine was a wonderful performer. I booked him for a show in London, Ontario, and he was fantastic.

Bob Farmer

Thank you!

Bob Farmer

Does anyone have an email address for this guy or an id?

https://www.youtube.com/c/HiddenStructu ... Card-Magic

Bob Farmer

A very nice idea.

Bob Farmer

I've come up with some more alternates to the grandfather story. Last night my wife was abducted by aliens, but before they left they shot me up with some moonjuice and now I can do some strange stuff. These cards were given to me by a voodoo princess who claimed that if I sacrificed a chicken I cou...

Bob Farmer

Aside from the veracity of grandfather stories, the entire premise is boring. At least come up with something interesting. For example, my cellmate at San Quentin was a card cheat and since we had a lot of spare time out on the yard, he showed me a few things that I'd like to show you. Or, I had to ...

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