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castawaydave

Speaking of currency redesign, here's an article we found earlier this morning:

http://rawstory.com/news/afp/US_court_r ... 02008.html

castawaydave

Cool link,Kevin:

His death certificate says:
"Occupation of Deceased: Actor + Lecturer"...

--and says "death occured on the date stated above at 1:30 p.m."...did doctors back then just round to the nearest 1/2 hour?

castawaydave

Thanks, gents.

castawaydave

Hi--I have Googled & Googled but can't find the exact time of day Houdini died on Halloween 1926. Was it at 10:00am on a sunny day, whilst bluebirds innocently twittered outside the window; --or perhaps just before the witching hour on a dark and stormy night, as lightning flashed and thunder ru...

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Heh heh. I am slow, but I catch on eventually.

Well done, and thank you for the nice biography about Lou Derman, Mr. Pecore.

castawaydave

"The Magic Touch" had a great atmosphere--I can still picture it: a cool green oasis. Steve was always so nice. (I regret I don't remember Andy...Sorry.) I wish I had a nickel for every time we begged our moms to whip us down 280 (from Mtn. View & Sunnyvale) to "The Touch". I...

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$1,525 divided by 12 works out to $127.08 per pack. (Thank you "calculator"!) A dozen decks of "Bicycle brand" are about $1.10 per pack. As orgasmic as Jerry's Nuggets may be, are they REALLY 125 times better?! Honestly, a full one hundred twenty fives times better?! Ay carumba! ...

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"Pure Effect" on hold...

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Offered for sale here: One copy of "Pure Effect" by Derren Brown; 3rd edition, copyright 2000. Book is not in Perfect condition, but very good: Dust jacket has a bit of very light creasing along top edge. AND there are a total of 5 relatively light pen marks on 3 different pages: Two 1/4&q...

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Good quotes kick ass, and you can quote me on that. There's a really good one--exactly what 000's looking for--in the Patrick Martin cover feature, but we are under penalty of throttling if we reveal it. These aren't what 000 had in mind, but here are a few about magic "in general". All ar...

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Pete, do you think you can find out what the buyer plans to do with them? Are they an investment in a rare antiquity?

--Or does he (she?) plan to open a few packs and manipulate the hell out of them?

castawaydave

Holy Mackeral:

http://cgi.ebay.com.au/Jerrys-Nugget-Pl ... dZViewItem

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Happy Birthday, Richard.

"May you live to be 100,
with one extra year to repent."

castawaydave

I agree with Glenn about how I too miss "good" t.v.--The old "Gong Show", as "not my taste" as it may have been, was STILL better than 90% of t.v. fare today! It did have a "good natured" vibe, and Chuck Barris was funny: perhaps the wackiest emcee for a show,...

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This will probably be a dumb question: --Is it possible to find out who wrote certain Magicpedia entries? Someone wrote a very good bio about Lou Derman. I had wanted to memorialize that guy and never did because was worried I didn't have enough info to do it right. Someone did (I have a guess who),...

castawaydave

Hee hee. Good one David.

I like the performer's line at the very end of the clip.

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I used to despise the Gong Show when I was a kid. I have never found horrible, horrible acts funny, charming, campy, etc. There are SOME people that should not be encouraged to get on stage, and you ALL know what I mean. That said, I love Dave Attell, one of the funniest comedians around. (see: YouT...

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Welcome back: your enthusiasm has been missed!

Dave Cox

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Alrighty then, you asked for it! ;^D

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I have contributed several pieces on subjects I know a bit about (bios of Max Malini and Paul Rosini; brief history of "The Asparagus Valley Cultural Society"...) ... As well put by ElMystico, not being an "expert" on other topics (hardly an axpert on the above either, truth be t...

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The link about C.A.'s hairdo, provided by Mr. LeBlanc above, contains the following CLASSIC exchange among the comments... ur just jellous. maybe u should try n look like him u all might get more girlfriends, cuz hes gorgeous, n we women r totally in love with him. he is the hottest guy alive, so ea...

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"If ATFUS You Don't Succeed, Stahl" from the Magic Manuscript with Karrel Fox on the cover (issue #2, I think).

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Note to self: Do NOT show Richard Kaufman my multiplying dog dirt routine.

castawaydave

I have at times regretted not smoking precisely because of the many cool tricks I knew I'd never get to do with cigarettes. I have also regretted not drinking coffee because I never get to say, "Gimme a cup o' Joe". Everyone was worried their repertoires would be devastated when U.S. curre...

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From an email just received: "Don't miss Steve Cohen on television this Sunday morning - May 4 - when he will be featured on CBS Sunday Morning. The program airs from 9:00 to 10:30AM Eastern, on CBS. See clips from Steve's long-running show Chamber Magic , and sit in on a one-to-one interview w...

castawaydave

That's too scary for me.

Can't we have him back in a block of ice, or up on a stick like the good old times?

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Doesn't brain damage start when the brain is out of oxygen for 6 minutes or so? If he's repeadtely trained for this thing, going over 10 minutes regularly... What kind of brain does the poor guy have left?

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--And every one a gem!

Keep up the good work, Chief.

P.S. The Penumbra is cool, but irritating. I know: patience is a virtue...but sheesh...

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Naphtalia--thank you for that link--some of the articles were interesting. Here's a quote that will stir up controversy!! From an interview with the Israeli Army's first ever official magician (21 years old): "Israelis, for magicians at least, are the toughest audiences ever. Ever! They have ch...

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Yeah Bob! Talk about the magic of the internet. How cool is that? Thank you. Raj (from a few posts above) told me he was recently with James Hamilton in S.F., Lovecraft was mentioned, and Jim pulled out his cellphone and said, "Wanna call him?"... So I don't know where in Florida, but it s...

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Patrick Martin is a true gentleman who could have been on the cover of Genii at any time since the 1970s. He's f---ing Great. Pretty much a "real magician". Growing up as a magic kid on the Penninsula WAY back in the '70s-'80s (South S.F. Bay--Silicon Valley), Patrick Martin was our HERO--...

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I hope Mr. Nash is well. Once he invited me out of the audience, to come up on stage and be the close-up spectator next to him, at the table while he performed. It was one of the most terrifying moments of my magic experience: Mr. Nash riffle-forced a card on me and I instantly FORGOT IT. He said, &...

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Man, that Houdini could write! Har har. (Thank you for the edifying link, Jonathan.) Raj! You remember Lovecraft?! (In S.F.'s magic shop "Misdirections", there's a photo on the ceiling of Joe and Lovecraft, from not too long ago...) Lovecraft's character was a bit of a tatty (as the Brits ...

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By FAR the funniest magician I ever saw was Doctor H.P. Lovecraft, an almost completely forgotten street magician (yes, a REAL street magician) from San Francisco during the '70s and very early '80s. He used to perform at the Cannery. I have heard he lives in Florida now, and I don't believe he perf...

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The show will probably be an amazing spectacle.

But the line "Chris Angel as a surreal, enigmatic Victorian Noble" cracked me up.

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--And to think he was mainly a dice man!

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Originally Posted By: Kohoutek "Try counting down with the left thumb the double at the top left corner and buckle at the front..." That reminds me: After thumb-counting 2 cards, rolling thumb, buckling them upward; instead of putting your index finger tip into the gap and manipulating the...

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You got my vote--Good luck Jamie

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Thank you for the kind words, Joe. You are certainly welcome as well, Mr. Bishop. I hadn't heard very much info about what was included, so wanted to blab about it a bit when I received my copies & found how closely the set matches my tastes. We are always much pleased when something comes out w...

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I received my set of Houdini discs from Amazon yesterday, and have spent a marathon session watching and clicking around them since. Before anything else, the 1st thing that HAS to be said: the robot in "The Master Mystery" is THE BEST movie robot of all time. HI-larious. Disclaimer: I had...

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