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Brad Jeffers

I've now been told how this works.
As I figured - there was a tiny bit of procedural information withheld from Q's original description!

Brad Jeffers

Is it mostly coin stuff, or is Mr. Henderson also a cardman?

Brad Jeffers

I can't imagine how this would work!? you do need to know how many cards were taken in the first cut. I can now figure out a method to do this, but still not exactly as initially described ... The deck is on the table, spec 1 takes half the deck and places it in pocket Spec 2 takes half the remaind...

Brad Jeffers

I can't imagine how this would work!?

Brad Jeffers

Martin Gardner speculated that Mark Twain might have written Erdnase “Nothing seems to please a fly so much as to be taken for a currant; and if it can be: baked in a cake and palmed off on the unwary, it dies happy.” ― Mark Twain I guess the above quote adds one more notch to the Mark Twain theory...

Brad Jeffers

Martin Gardner speculated that Mark Twain might have written Erdnase “Nothing seems to please a fly so much as to be taken for a currant; and if it can be baked in a cake and palmed off on the unwary, it dies happy.” ― Mark Twain I guess the above quote adds one more notch to the Mark Twain theory.

Brad Jeffers

1974 was the first year that I went to a magic convention. It was in Colon Michigan. Abbott's '74 was also my first magic convention. I was 17. Perhaps we sat next to each other at one of the shows, or maybe you were the kid who showed me Cardwarp at the diner. Who Knows? For sure, it was a wonderf...

Brad Jeffers

My current ideas ... #2. Find people who review a lot of different magic products and ask them if they would like a review copy. That's a good idea. I suggest that you submit a copy to the person on this forum who goes by the name EndersGame . He will give you a review that is three times as long a...

Brad Jeffers

The term palmed off as used by Sanders in the sentence "the literary huckster ... has PALMED OFF upon us our own alleged history" has really no correlation with the term "palm off" as used by Erdnase. If we found a candidate had written something like "he had a sudden SHIFT ...

Brad Jeffers

In the 40's Dai Vernon had business cards made that read simply, Dai W. Vernon - The New York Card Expert. Do you know why he did that? That's news to me. What did he say about that? Glad you asked, Jonathan. Here's what he said about that ... "I never was proud of the fact that I was a magici...

Brad Jeffers

Brad Henderson wrote:Card expert says far more about the person and what they do than cardman ever will.

In the 40's Dai Vernon had business cards made that read simply, Dai W. Vernon - The New York Card Expert.
Do you know why he did that?

Brad Jeffers

Bill Duncan wrote:Off the top of my head, I can think of at least two effects that are magical without misdirection.

Off the top of my head I can think of about four hundred and fifty.

Unless misdirection is somehow synonymous with deception.

In that case I can't think of any.

Brad Jeffers

Anthony Vinson wrote: Can anyone come up with an example of a trick or illusion not requiring misdirection?

One of the strongest illusions in magic is created with the El Torero devise which is essentially a $3 toy.
Where is the misdirection in this trick?

Brad Jeffers

Apparently, in 1932, men never went anywhere without wearing a suit and tie!

Brad Jeffers

Unfortunately Mark will be unable to answer your question until sometime around the 8th of July.

Richard Kaufman wrote:I've banned Mark for six months. Tired of his nonsense.

Brad Jeffers

If you're going to be using your box, I suggest you get a copy of this ...

Brad Jeffers

To be clear, the red card rises to the top of the blue deck for the finale ... When I read this I thought - "That's pretty cool ". What I envisioned happening, I figured could be accomplished with the use of a flap card and a double turnover, or more simply by any of the sleight of hand m...

Brad Jeffers

It's always been interesting to me why the need to explain your props seems to be a proclivity of close-up performers but not of stage magicians. ... think about what you are going to say when you first introduce the box. What is it supposed to be? Where did you supposedly get it? http://www.richard...

Brad Jeffers

Ian Kendall wrote: I'm offering alternative pints of view.

Brad Jeffers

The only magician I've seen produce an object that was actually larger the cup it came out of is Paul Gertner.
In addition to the giant steel ball, he added a couple of more items for THIS PERFORMANCE.

Brad Jeffers

whilst remaining anonymous I'm kind of surprised that no one has outed Andy's identity. Maybe no one knows who he is. Maybe no one cares. Perhaps in 100 years there will be a book entitled "The Man Who Was Andy", and a 200 page thread on the Genii Forum simply entitled - ANDY. But then ag...

Brad Jeffers

You've got me thinking though. Racist jokes arent funny. The N word isn't funny. Calling women C#m D#mpsters isnt funny. Joking about smacking them in the head if they don't perform sexual acts to your satisfaction isn't funny. So the way I see it ... The bulk of the content of "The Jerx" ...

Brad Jeffers

MagicbyAlfred wrote: Johnny Ace Palmer

Check out this video ...

Brad Jeffers

Brad Jeffers wrote: No offense intended.

I meant to Ron Jeremy and Jerry Falwell.

Brad Jeffers

I just watched Back Issues -The Hustler Magazine Story , a documentary about the history of Larry Flynt and the iconoclastic magazine he created. After watching the film, I have come to view the Andy/Jerx blog situation, as a microcosm of the Larry Flynt/Hustler magazine situation, in which Joe Mcka...

Brad Jeffers

Richard Kaufman wrote:Jim who?

Jim Gerrish

Brad Jeffers

Is the blindfold drive really impressive these days, in a world where cars can drive themselves?

Brad Jeffers

This might have something to do with it.

Brad Jeffers

Daryl’s specific contribution was the presentation that justified each and every action of the routine. I’ve seen a lot of people do the trick and they miss parts of it. I looked for a video of Daryl performing this trick but the closest I could find was Michael Ammar performing Daryl's Untouched ....

Brad Jeffers

Here is Don Cox teaching the method he learned from Ron Estes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBj3rIGOxsM. And here is Al Angello teaching the method he learned from Don Cox (who learned it from Ron Estes) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2E8knp2uxn0. And here is Chris Kenner teaching a different met...

Brad Jeffers

Bob Einstein's younger brother was pretty funny too ...

Brad Jeffers

The finest cut stripper deck I ever had was a Bicycle deck which I purchased at a grocery store.
It wasn't supposed to be a stripper deck, but due to poor quality control it was!

Brad Jeffers

... if such evidence had been presented, there would have been more than enough for reasonable doubt and an acquittal of Mr. Conley on the charges of perjury and obstruction of justice. Conley was sentenced to 34 months in prison. After a lengthy process of appeals the charges were eventually dismi...

Brad Jeffers

For Christmas I was given tickets to The World of Illusion magic show at the Savannah Theatre. The Savannah Theatre is a wonderful venue, having been in continuous operation since 1812. It's on Chippewa Square, which was the location for this famous movie scene . About six steps away from the where ...

Brad Jeffers

I avoid doing any magic effect that utilizes a technological device, which in it's normal everyday use, does things that are more amazing than the trick I am doing with it.
Therefore, I would also be inclined to avoid using any patter that makes an allusion to such devices.

Brad Jeffers

I still remember the shock of this identity revelation when we learn that **** and *** are one and the same. I don't see how a film director can overcome this identity problem. This trick cannot logically be captured on film without destroying the surprise element. How about the character V******t ...

Brad Jeffers

TCM Remembers

Brad Jeffers

"The first time I ever saw Split Fans, which was before I ever met Cardini and probably before Channing Pollack was even born, was shown to me by a fellow named Ardo the Frog man. He was an Australian contortionist who dressed like a frog and acted like a frog all through the act, but his hobby...

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Peter Ross wrote:A ten-year-old girl does not want to grow up to be a cardman, or a spaceman for that matter.

I would like to get this person's opinion.

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