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very good everyone. I love the website and the CUPS awareness cards.

Maybe the t-shirts should be on sale at the IMS convention, so we can all recognise fellow TM members...

rule 5 in the previous messages link page (see link bellow)

http://www.talkmagic.co.uk/ftopic2676-0-asc-0.php

was I found very intersting. Thanks for that
However there are two things which I wish to share with my fellow CUPS sufferers
The first is that some people like repeat tricks. not immediatly as this could be dangerous but after a couple of months they can't remember exactly how the trick began and as for some tricks the magic is all done at the start.... then by the time they have remembered that this one of their favorite tricks its to late for them to fathem it out. I have done repeat tricks on my family for years and sometimes they ask say " I liked that new trick"!!!!
My second point is "remember the sucker ending"
do a trick
repeat again a couple of months later
if they had fogoten it repeat again a couple of months later
as soon as they start to remember wait a couple of weeks and put a completely different ending on the same start, or a comedy ending.
EXAMPLE
for those of you who have corinders 13 steps you may be fammiliar with a prediction from 10 cards. the cards are placed face up and face down in a line and the magician predicts that the card chosen will be the only red card.
This is a simple trick, but I have repeated this many times to family with out them remembering it. On say the fourth repeat they may start to think I remember this, he is going to predict that I have chosen the only red card.
I predict that he will chose the only green card and show either a plain backed card with a green back pattern scawlled on it in pen, or a blue backed blank face card with the 4 of clubs drawn on it in green. This I call the 4 of clovers. For the ones who don't remmember the trick it is still the same but those who remember the trick get a commody ending.
But they never remember the force!!!!!
People remember the performance not the magic.

DRAT just realised you may have to buy two more packs of cards to do the above. sorry about that perhaps should give up and go wait for the post to arrive!!!!!!!!

Hello my name is Andy and I have CUPS!

I don't WANT any more I NEED!!!!!

Come and join the support group

http://www.talkmagic.co.uk/ftopic9144.php

I look around at the bricks of bikes I bought to practice on, piled beside the RRTCM book and DVD, as well as the Complete Course, Hay's "Learn Magic", several of Fuve's books, the Encyclopedia of Card Tricks, Steinman's "Hiding the Elephant" (which I partly blame for everything before it) and note that it just about hides from my wife the Mindstorms NXT robotic kit that screamed "BUY ME!" an hour ago.

No, no problem here. Not in the least.

If I can build a robot to "pick a card, any card", she'll be bloody ecstatic

Nah, no CUPS here. Nope.

I've just bought a pair of cordless headphones. The problem is, I've got a pair on...

nutter. i've got a spare pair i'd have traded you for a wheely bin or something.
i've spent over a hundred quid on stuff today. stuff i kind of needed, but i only needed about ten quids worth of it!

this could be interesting...
2 questions.
1.how long have you been "into" magic?
2.how much do you think you have spent on magic?

Lawrence wrote:nutter. i've got a spare pair i'd have traded you for a wheely bin or something.

In my defence, M'lud, there's a bass end on on the buggers so phat it straddles a post code. I'm actually frightened to listen to Beethoven's Ninth without a safety harness to stop me invading Poland. The only problem is they take batteries and they keep running out, necessitating a brief setback in my ongoing struggle with Maplin addiction in search of rechargeable AAAs.

i have that *goes to ebay and buys Electric Touch then says "DANG YOU C.U.P.S" *

If the wife can have C.U.P.S. then why can't I, any way it must be genetic cos the christmas toy adverts have only just started on telly and you wouldn't believe the amount of stuff the kids have told me they won't be able to live without.
Any way I blame all of the shops & websites, if only they would bill it as a dress shop then when the boss finds out you could say its part of a surprise and she will just have to be patient and wait!

i am a cups sufferer as well... i love browsing magicdepot and easily click on 'add to cart'... then i can't resist pressing 'checkout'!

Hello Bananafish and all of the lads,

You know something, it's really fun to go back and read the old posts. I love seeing where we came from, searching out our roots, exploring how we have changed. And, in a lot of ways, this is the secret to dealing with CUPS.

At least for most of you, you all are close up artists. Imagine being an Illusionist like me. Now you're talking serious outlays of cash and time if you have CUPS. Which, I suppose it is good for me that I invent all of my Illusions. I feel blessed in this way, yet, I do still buy the books. And the supplies for the next great Illusion. And, well, there are those great shoes which I just must have to go with the new dress for the Illusion for the act three acts from now.

I love magic, I want to read about it, I want to get better at it, and I want to own as much of it as possible. I want to understand it, the history of it and the psychology behind it.

I understand exactly what you mean here Bananafish.

So my plan is to stop buying for a while. No new books. No new DVD’s and certainly no new tricks, mind you

Uh huh. That's called Denial, right?

Rule 2. Remember Loved ones.
Speaking as a recently married man, I would urge everyone to remember that Magic isn’t the be all and end all of life as we know it (that’s what my lovely assistant tells me anyway).

Congratulations on your marriage. The key to a good marriage for a magician, marry a magician. Or at least your cute assistant. And as for keeping the mistress hidden, well, that should be second nature for any magician.

This was an old post, from three years ago actually, but it was fun to read. I know, many responses since it's original posting have come and gone but sometimes, well, there's magic in the dustiest of corners. Rereading the old posts is like rereading our old magic books. Each reading gives us new perspective if we but allow it to.

Love,

Amanda Angeli