[OT]: It's the week-end, let's have some fun ...
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Okay! I got it too. Typical anti-gun sleigh of hand! 
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John/az
"When freedom is at stake, your silence is not golden, it's yellow..." RKBA!
See The Legacy of Gun Control film at: www.cphv.com
Do it for the children...
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John/az
"When freedom is at stake, your silence is not golden, it's yellow..." RKBA!
See The Legacy of Gun Control film at: www.cphv.com
Do it for the children...
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5 times it took me to figure out what the deal was.
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"Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities...Because it is the quality that guarantees all others"
Winston S. Churchill
"The American Republic is finished when the congress realizes that it can bribe the people with the peoples money"
De Touqueville
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"Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities...Because it is the quality that guarantees all others"
Winston S. Churchill
"The American Republic is finished when the congress realizes that it can bribe the people with the peoples money"
De Touqueville
As a youth, I studied magic as a hobby. Got it right off as it is an old trick. Still very effective if you've never seen it before.
Here's a good one to pull on your friends. Take a cup full of water and sprinkle a good helping of pepper on the water, enough to cover the surface. (make sure it is the fine dust type pepper and not the corse gound) Next take your index finger and pretend to concentrate as you stick it into the water. The pepper will jump away from your finger. Next have your friend try it. As they put their finger into the water the pepper will attach to their finger like a magnet.
The secret? In a normal manner stick your finger in your ear to cover it with ear wax before putting it into the water. If you give your friend a good bull story that it's all in the concentration.... well you can have some fun with this.
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Richard
The debate is not about guns,
but rather who has the ultimate power to rule,
the People or Government.
RKBA!
Here's a good one to pull on your friends. Take a cup full of water and sprinkle a good helping of pepper on the water, enough to cover the surface. (make sure it is the fine dust type pepper and not the corse gound) Next take your index finger and pretend to concentrate as you stick it into the water. The pepper will jump away from your finger. Next have your friend try it. As they put their finger into the water the pepper will attach to their finger like a magnet.
The secret? In a normal manner stick your finger in your ear to cover it with ear wax before putting it into the water. If you give your friend a good bull story that it's all in the concentration.... well you can have some fun with this.
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Richard
The debate is not about guns,
but rather who has the ultimate power to rule,
the People or Government.
RKBA!
inexcusably bad name) himself, the "Motivational entertainer", "Magic with a message". "As seen at Bayview mall" and so on...
!!!I tired to post this, and had gotten almost to the end, when my kitty jumped into my lap and hit something on the keyboard and everything disappeared. We'll try again.
bookie, good trick. Here's a couple of other good ones from a book entitled, Sneaky Feats: The Art of Showing Off and 53 Ways to Do It.
Drugstore Cowboy Lassos an Ice Cube!
Using a short piece of sewing thread or other small diameter twine, fashion a loop in one end. Then fill a glass with water, place an ice cube in it, and challenge your friends to lasso the cube using the string but without touching the cube with their hands or any other implements. They will, of course, fail.
Now its your turn. Carefully place the loop so that it's laid out on top of the ice cube. Then shake a small amount of salt onto the top of the cube. This will cause the surface ice to melt then refreeze. You can then lift the loop out with the ice cube attached!
When they protest that you never told them they could do that, you reply that you never told them they couldn't.
The Magic Boat
Fashion a small boat from a bit of tin foil (actually, you can use any small, light object that will float.) Fill a glass with water to just below the rim. Place the boat on the water, and you will notice that it immediately wants to float to the side of the glass and stay there. Challenge your friends to get the boat to stay in the middle of the water without touching it.
After they have tried and failed, you amaze and counfound them by the following method; start gently dropping coins (or any small, heavy objects) into the water until the surface of the water is slightly higher than the rim of the glass. Surface tension will make the boat go to the middle and stay there!
Same objections, same answer.
For the piece de resistance, go to a magic shop and buy a trick called "Scotch & Soda". I bought mine in 1979, cost about $15 then, so it's probably more expensive by now. (When you see how it's done, you'll see why it costs as much as it does, and also how amazingly simple it is. It can be easily done by anyone over the age of 8.) The presentation is as follows: you show someone a half-dollar, and then show them a Mexican 20 centavo piece, which is made of copper and has a slightly smaller diameter than the half-dollar. You then place the centavo under the half, put both into your victim's hands and have him close his hand on it, then put his hands behind his back and drop one coin into his other hand. He/she will be able to tell the difference in size, and you then ask him/her to show you the larger of the two coins, the half. They give it to you, and you then bet them whatever that the coin they're holding isn't the centavo. After you've agreed on the bet (or just do it for fun), you ask them to show you the centavo. They open their hand, and they're holding a quarter! You then produce the centavo from wherever you wish! The sucker then pays you whatever you bet!After the trick is done, they can examine all the coins, and they will see that they are real coins. It only takes about 10 seconds of privacy for you to get set up to do it again. It's one of the few tricks that you can do over and over to the same person.
I know a few great card tricks, too. One is so good, I have a standing offer to pay $100 to anyone who can figure it out from beginning to end. It's very simple to do, but confounds everyone who sees it. After hundreds of people have seen it, no one has come any closer than figuring out 75% of it.
Prestidigitation is fun! Magic ain't real! (And no, I don't know how this virtual trick is done-yet.) I might be willing to trade the secret to that card trick to someone who's willing to tell me how it's done, but give me a little longer to figure it out. If I can't, I'll post later and let you know. First e-mail to me with the correct answer will get the card trick.
Never mind, I got it figured. Too bad. Oh well, if someone can come up with something really impressive, I'll maybe share the secret of the trick.
bookie, should I just share a good trick with all the TFLers?
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Shoot straight & make big holes, regards, Richard at The Shottist's Center
[This message has been edited by 45King (edited September 09, 2000).]
[This message has been edited by 45King (edited September 09, 2000).]
bookie, good trick. Here's a couple of other good ones from a book entitled, Sneaky Feats: The Art of Showing Off and 53 Ways to Do It.
Drugstore Cowboy Lassos an Ice Cube!
Using a short piece of sewing thread or other small diameter twine, fashion a loop in one end. Then fill a glass with water, place an ice cube in it, and challenge your friends to lasso the cube using the string but without touching the cube with their hands or any other implements. They will, of course, fail.
Now its your turn. Carefully place the loop so that it's laid out on top of the ice cube. Then shake a small amount of salt onto the top of the cube. This will cause the surface ice to melt then refreeze. You can then lift the loop out with the ice cube attached!
When they protest that you never told them they could do that, you reply that you never told them they couldn't.
The Magic Boat
Fashion a small boat from a bit of tin foil (actually, you can use any small, light object that will float.) Fill a glass with water to just below the rim. Place the boat on the water, and you will notice that it immediately wants to float to the side of the glass and stay there. Challenge your friends to get the boat to stay in the middle of the water without touching it.
After they have tried and failed, you amaze and counfound them by the following method; start gently dropping coins (or any small, heavy objects) into the water until the surface of the water is slightly higher than the rim of the glass. Surface tension will make the boat go to the middle and stay there!
Same objections, same answer.
For the piece de resistance, go to a magic shop and buy a trick called "Scotch & Soda". I bought mine in 1979, cost about $15 then, so it's probably more expensive by now. (When you see how it's done, you'll see why it costs as much as it does, and also how amazingly simple it is. It can be easily done by anyone over the age of 8.) The presentation is as follows: you show someone a half-dollar, and then show them a Mexican 20 centavo piece, which is made of copper and has a slightly smaller diameter than the half-dollar. You then place the centavo under the half, put both into your victim's hands and have him close his hand on it, then put his hands behind his back and drop one coin into his other hand. He/she will be able to tell the difference in size, and you then ask him/her to show you the larger of the two coins, the half. They give it to you, and you then bet them whatever that the coin they're holding isn't the centavo. After you've agreed on the bet (or just do it for fun), you ask them to show you the centavo. They open their hand, and they're holding a quarter! You then produce the centavo from wherever you wish! The sucker then pays you whatever you bet!After the trick is done, they can examine all the coins, and they will see that they are real coins. It only takes about 10 seconds of privacy for you to get set up to do it again. It's one of the few tricks that you can do over and over to the same person.
I know a few great card tricks, too. One is so good, I have a standing offer to pay $100 to anyone who can figure it out from beginning to end. It's very simple to do, but confounds everyone who sees it. After hundreds of people have seen it, no one has come any closer than figuring out 75% of it.
Prestidigitation is fun! Magic ain't real! (And no, I don't know how this virtual trick is done-yet.) I might be willing to trade the secret to that card trick to someone who's willing to tell me how it's done, but give me a little longer to figure it out. If I can't, I'll post later and let you know. First e-mail to me with the correct answer will get the card trick.
Never mind, I got it figured. Too bad. Oh well, if someone can come up with something really impressive, I'll maybe share the secret of the trick.
bookie, should I just share a good trick with all the TFLers?
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Shoot straight & make big holes, regards, Richard at The Shottist's Center
[This message has been edited by 45King (edited September 09, 2000).]
[This message has been edited by 45King (edited September 09, 2000).]
45King:
Sure, most of us like a good trick. Here is another bar trick that is fun. Ask someone to stand an egg on it's end. They won't be able to. Do to so, lick the end of the egg and sprinkle a little salt on it. The salt will stick to the egg, which will give the egg enough brace on a flat surface to balance it.
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Richard
The debate is not about guns,
but rather who has the ultimate power to rule,
the People or Government.
RKBA!
Sure, most of us like a good trick. Here is another bar trick that is fun. Ask someone to stand an egg on it's end. They won't be able to. Do to so, lick the end of the egg and sprinkle a little salt on it. The salt will stick to the egg, which will give the egg enough brace on a flat surface to balance it.
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Richard
The debate is not about guns,
but rather who has the ultimate power to rule,
the People or Government.
RKBA!