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It's forbidden to circulate jokes from our accounts at work, so someone has decided to filter out anything containing the word 'joke' or variants in the subject or body. Like 'Our IT department is staffed by useless jokers', for example.

Emails from my wife were inexplicably not reaching me at work. In the end we realised it was because she was ending each one with 'xxxxx'. Three 'x's together means it must be porn apparently.

mine came yesterday...rather excited...i had a little too much rum last night so i could only manage to read the first few pages before slumber took me...

if Tomo offers one as a prize for whatever reason, i think it would be most amusing if he signed it and included a load of abuse inside the cover...

abraxus wrote:if Tomo offers one as a prize for whatever reason, i think it would be most amusing if he signed it and included a load of abuse inside the cover...

Hmmm. Interesting

Now I definitely have to get the book!! Yes, it would be curious if Tomo included my earlier remarks about magicians using stripper decks as cyclists using support wheels!!! I still think this remark is valid for beginners in card magic, however what Tomo seems to have demonstrated is that serious magicians can do a lot of very stong stuff with thouse "support wheels"

Congratulations!!!!

Cheers!

If you click on my sig to show the book, then click on the title, you can read the first few pages. I'm in two minds whether to include the table of contents or whether that might give it all away a bit.

Well if it would give it away then perhaps just a contenets includes <insert tricknames of a few here>

Soren Riis wrote:Now I definitely have to get the book!! Yes, it would be curious if Tomo included my earlier remarks about magicians using stripper decks as cyclists using support wheels!!! I still think this remark is valid for beginners in card magic, however what Tomo seems to have demonstrated is that serious magicians can do a lot of very stong stuff with thouse "support wheels"

Congratulations!!!!

It's nice to see someone admit when there wrong.

On account of overwork, not enough sleep and too much caffeine, I've gone daft and added the ToC to the preview. I don't think it gives too much away, but it does show the range of strippery goodness on offer.

Anyone know where one can get a stripper in bikes, bridge size?

Try the Card Collecton. They don't have what you're after listed on the website but they will do custom jobs. I've phoned them with some weird requests in the past and they've always produced the goods, so just because they don't stock it doesn't mean they won't do it.

Charles Calthrop wrote:Try the Card Collecton.

That was the first place I tried.

Charles Calthrop wrote: They don't have what you're after listed on the website but they will do custom jobs.

Aye, I'm sure you're right, Charles, but it amazes (and, yes, infuriates) me that this should be required. I've had this before, when simply wanting a couple of double backers. And again, when wanting a blank-faced card. I understand that the US may be different, but normal cards in the UK are bridge size. Go into anywhere - WH Smith's, Woolworth's, the shop at Stonehenge, anywhere - and buy a pack of cards and they'll be bridge-sized. Before I got into magic, I didn't even realise that poker size existed, as I'd never come across them. Now, I freely admit, I prefer bridge-sized cards and use them whenever I can (which is 97% of the time) because I have small, artistic hands and so they are much better for me. However, given the amount of fretting and concentration we but into cards 'looking normal' why is it impossible to get hold of 'normal-sized' magic cards without having to have them specially made? Marvin's Magic seem perfectly able to produce bridge-sized stripper and Sven decks, for God's sake.

Ohhhhh. It makes me livid, it does.

Charles Calthrop wrote:I've phoned them with some weird requests in the past and they've always produced the goods

My imagination riots.

"I want a svengali stripper, rough-and-smoothed, juiced and preferably plastic coated. Better sell me a clamp while you're at it, and a protector please."
They'll deliver straight to your hotel room.

Sexton Blake wrote:Go into anywhere - WH Smith's, Woolworth's, the shop at Stonehenge, anywhere - and buy a pack of cards and they'll be bridge-sized.

I feel your pain, but most magicians want poker-sized gaffs.
(Hey, that sounds rude too!)

Was that Wittgenstein's Poker?

DrTodd wrote:Was that Wittgenstein's Poker?

It would be delightful, and utlimately damage-free, to think so, but to me the whole thing feels more like Edward II's poker.

YEY!!!
I got the book today, along with another one of it to give away as a christmas present. I just browsed through it and it seems to be excellent!
Great job TOMO! Congratulations!