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LMAO at all of these!

I agree Cardza, this is a fantastic thread!

Well done Mr Skutt!

OH MY GOD!

You guy's made coffee come out of my noise (which is weird, since I'm drinking Pepsi).

To quote the immortal David Brent, "Brilliant...absolutely brilliant". I am literally at home laughing out loud.

So many thoughts are flowing through my head...what wonder guys, what a creative bunch, is the government going to shut this down? You know, the usual thoughts.

Please keep them coming! This is great and we still have two weeks to go.


Until then,

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(that's in Davinci Code)

Installment 4

Skutt's prediction

Mike is doing his normal routine when he gets a random spectactor to choose a card from an entire pack spread on the floor, any card at all a very free choice... After plucking a full can of pepsi from thin air Mike then asks the spectators if they know a joke, he listens while they tell it, all the time sipping his cola... Whatever the joke is, when they get to the punchline Mike starts uncontrollably laughing, he laughs so hard that he starts choking, streams and streams of molten coffee shoot from his nose drenching the cards on the floor and his audience. When he calms down, just one thing remains untouched by this high octane caffeine jetstream, the spectators selected card. If that wasn't enough the card bears the single unmistakable hoofprint of a plastic wildebeast...

[u]Things Just Happen[/u]

This is designed for a less formal setting than the previous contributions.

You are at a fancy Restaurant, perhaps for a family get together (for an anniversary or birthday), one of those places that you hardly ever go to and when you do you don’t know which knife you’re SUPPOSED to be using!

You wait until one of the members of staff is at your table and you say, in an almost unsure, questioning, voice but with definite tones of excitement and intrigue, “wow!” They say, “what?” but you’re still unsure, they ask again.

You snap your fingers and the very expensive bottle of red wine and a plate of food just fall through the table and smash – contents all over the place.

REMEMBER you are in a restaurant where noise is not looked on kindly let alone commotion! The member of staff and some of your friends/relatives try to explain what happened as everyone looks at them is disbelief (and slight fear because two people are simultaneously acting in a bizarre manner, saying things which could not possibly be true) you snap your fingers and everything is how it was – normal.

“Things just happen around me” you say.

WOW if this is what he can do by accident what do you think he could do if he tried?

FAQs

Are there any slights? No but there is one move, which will take 5 minutes of practice.

How long is the set up? There is hardly any it takes seconds to prepare.

Will this work with any shoes? Absolutely, provided they’re size 16.

Are there any gimmicks? There’s one but it’s more equipment then a gimmick.

Will it work anywhere? Yes.

Angles? 100% angle proof.

“Things Just Happen” is only available from “must be B.S.-ing a bit.com

Ok...I have to get in on this now...


Torn and Restored Siamese Twins by Mike Skutt

Effect: An ad is taken out in the local paper asking for a pair of conjoined twins to arrive downtown on Saturday at High Noon. On that day, a crowd has gathered in anticipation of the single greatest effect ever attempted in Ohio. Using a bullhorn and a whip for crowd control, the Magi walks down the dirt Main Street toward the awaiting twins. Without saying a word, he leads the twins to a huge "X" that has been drawn in the dirt with a local man's peg leg. Without warning, a helicopter swoops down and stragetically drops the world's largest Ginsu knife; splitting the twins in half.

Somewhere in the background, a baby is crying.

As the dust and blood settle, a volunteer group of honor students bring out two sleeping bags made of flash paper. Each twin is placed in a seperate bag and placed on top of each other.

Suddenly a trained dove dives down and drops a single match on the sleeping bags, starting a "blaze o' twin".

A circus clown runs out with a hose and squirts the crowd.

They laugh. Crowds like clowns.

Finally, the blaze goes out by itself. City workers are now directed in with an aeorsol container full of roughing spray and they proceed to hose down the twins.

Somewhere, a Native American is crying.

The magician now stands over the burnt mess that use to be brothers joined at the hips. Using the bullhorn he shouts, "Cookie Monster: Giver of Life! Rise this phoenix now!"

Nothing happens.

Apparently, Cookie Monster is NOT the giver of life.

A hand-made quilt is solomely laid over the mess...I mean, the brothers, and everyone bows their heads.

Suddenly, a small child notices movement under the quilt. The sly magician smiles and lifts the quilt to reveal that the twins, have not only been completely restored, but are now on OPPOSITE SIDES!

The crowd goes mild!

*(no actual "persons" were hurt during this description...except for maybe my own credibility!)

Nice one guy's

Installment 5

Blaze of glory
How many times have you heard the words...

"It was the heat of my hand that changed the card, yeah it's special ink that reacts to heat"

Won't it be cool when you prove this to be the case!

From the creative team that brought you the top selling "Leighton's Birthday Cake" and critically acclaimed "The Big Bang" comes Blaze of Glory, a stunning new effect. Imagine the scene, the spectator chooses a card (eg. seven of hearts) and holds it face down on her palm. After blathering on inanely for a short period, you tell her to turn the card over to reveal not the aforementioned seven of hearts but a picture of everyone's favourite herbivore Gerald, holding a bunch of seven heart shaped daffodils (effect sold seperately).

"That's simple! It must be special ink" declares the speccy "It changes because of the heat of my hand"

You grin and compliment the spectator on their cleverness.. Indeed they are right the ink does indeed react to the heat and sweat of their hand, but it does more than just change the picture on the card, it changes their genetic makeup as well. As you say this the friendly smiling Wildebeast image slides off the card and up the spectators arm where it dissolves into their bloodstream.

Your spectators friend's gasp in disbelief as their friend suddenly starts dancing uncontrollably. They dance so fast that their feet catch fire and a huge dust cloud of blue sparkly smoke enshrouds them. The smoke clears to reveal Gerald, as large as life and grinning like a cheshire cat, standing with a single card in his hoof, upon which is the image of the spectator and a bunch of daffodils. Your crowd go wild!

This really is a killer effect, but don't worry no-one will notice that as long as you remember to choose an unpopular volunteer.

Strictly limited edition, pre-order yours TODAY!

(please note that this effect is done entirely at the magicians own risk. It should not be carried out on spectators wearing pacemakers or false teeth. Flashy Enterprises accepts no responsibility for anything)

The Emporers New Clothes - a new and skilled rope trick (what else would you expect from dat)

This is a reworking of a timeless classic starting with a nuumber of balls of thin rope and two wooden sticks.

You start by winding the thin rope around one of the sticks and then as if by magic, you take the second stick and use it to transfer the thin rope across to the other stick. As you do this it miraculously grows.

The more that transfer the rope across from one stick to the other, the bigger the piece of rope grows and there's no limit to how big you can get the inter-twined rope, just keep adding more and more thin rope. You can even add different coloured rope as you progress.

Take the various pieces of rope and sew them together once they have reached a suitable length and you have a handy garment that can keep you warm in the colder months.

Skill level approximately 3, Ideally suited to female magicians.

Unbelieveable magic!

"FLASH PHOTOGRAPHY"

You ask a spectator to choose a card.
They select a card and they sign it.

You proceed to wrap the card in flash paper and burn it.

***FLASH***

You then proceed to take an envelope from your pocket.

Inside is a photo. The photo has on it a deck of cards layed on a table.

The card on the end is the card they chose and it has thier signature on it.

wow

The magician then takes the photo, and again, wraps it in flash paper and burns it.

From the flash. out falls thier origional card signed by them.

I really do take exception to this Mike Skutt chap. He comes in here with his nonsense twin creation, interrupting the flow of what was otherwise a wholesome creative flow. Can't he see we're professionals, with a deep creative range.

Sorry, let the creative juices flow.

THE LAZY RESTAURANT WORKER

You walk up to a restaurant table spectator and introduce yourself. After engaging in conversation for a few minutes (the performer will need to provide own patter at this point), the performer thanks the speccy and walks away. .... Nothing magical happens .... Spectator is confused and still puts money in the magicians tip bowl before leaving the restaurant.

100% Angle proof.
No Tricky gimmicks.
Instant Reset.
Easy to Learn.

"How to vanish your sister"

No, only kidding. LOL

Not sure about this, it may have been done before but if so, ignore it completely!

I can think of how to achieve some of the required business but not all. Let's just describe things as they are supposed to take place:

Performer is seated at the table, three specs are asked to take a card from the offered deck, without saying anything or otherwise letting the performer know, they check the cards silently with each other and the one with the highest value is selected to be The Observer.

Performer explains that he has an interest in crime novels and films, especially the stereotype involving strangers in a remote mansion, as per Agatha Christie's Ten Little Indians (he produces a small packet of cards ).

The story usually involves some unknown person, possibly a joker (turns over top card of packet to show it as a Joker, places it face down in the centre of the table about 2 ft in front of him), who invites random strangers to a remote house or mansion which then becomes cut off from the rest of the world either by a power cut, snow blizzards, a bridge collapsing or some other unfortunate circumstance. The guests are invited there for one reason - to be murdered for past sins and all come from varied backgrounds.

The first guest is the ruthless Chief Executive of an International Mining corporation so he is represented by (turns over next card on packet) the King of Spades (places card face down under the Joker and to the right, turns over next card on packet) The next guest is Queenie Hart, an Agony Aunt/Gossip Columnist who's weekly column is syndicated across many countries but who may have learned too many personal secrets which certain celebrities prefer to keep hidden. She is represented by the Queen of Hearts (places this card to the left of the King, turns over the next card on the packet). Our third guest is well known as the top designer in the world of Jewellery, Jackie Diamond, rich eccentric and who has no respect for anyone else. He will trample on anyone to keep his top position - his card is, of course, the Jack of Diamonds. (Places this card to the left of the Queen, turns over the next card) Guest number four is another high flying jet setter. He owns many strip joints and gambling places, most of them of very low repute and infested with gangsters. He calls himself….The Ace of Clubs (places that card face down to the left of the Jack, turns over the next card). Our penultimate guest is similarly suspicious. An ex World class pro Tennis player, he now charges high sums to coach bored rich housewives in the sport. Sometimes not just in tennis and he has been known to have received warnings from angry husbands in the past. He is represented here by the Ten (nis!) of Spades (places that card to the left of the Ace turns over the last card) Our final guest is less well known as his talent lies in mediation work between countries who look as though they may go to war. As part of the secret service he is in constant danger of being killed so keeps a low profile, always half way between one situation and another. For this reason we represent him with the Seven (as it's halfway between Ace and King) of Diamonds.

Looking from the performer's point of view, There should now be 6 cards face down in a neat line with the first card also face down slightly above them.

The patter continues, 'At various stages during the evening, each guest dies in some mysterious way, never witnessed by the others and, true to form, all our guests have similarly departed' (turns over the six character cards one by one right to left to show that all the faces are now blank - or might do this after gathering all six into the hand using the F….Count!).

The six cards are gathered up, the patter continues, 'Of course, none of these deaths are accidental, they are most certainly (lays cards down again face up showing one letter on each face, possibly decorated with dripping blood) M U R D E R.

However, as we all know, there were only six guests in the house so one of them has to be the killer and had faked their own death. Who can it be? (Turns over the Joker which has been in plain view untouched all along) revealing the King of Spades. 'Who here has that card please?' The Observer should now be quite stunned as he holds the King of Spades card which he freely selected right at the start.

The performer concludes with, 'Guilty as charged, book him, Danno!'

"Dont flash your money"


You are sat in a posh restuarant and you are admiring the romantic candle in the centre of the table.

You then notice something. You start picking £1 coins from the flame of the candle alternating hands for each coin.

Once you have peoples attention there is a HUGE FLASH of fire and out you bring a bunch £50 notes from the flame. (a bit like they show in those gameshows!)

"That rings a bell..."

You are having your own party at your house.

You take out your deck of cards and ask a spec. to take a card and sign it.

You then take it and vanish it (your own desired way - Possible Methods included)

You then hear the door bell ring. You leave the deck of cards on the table with the spectator whilst you answer the door.
Its yet another guest.

You ask them to come join you.
You go to finish your trick.
You ask the spec that just walked in to take out an item from thier pocket.
They find a card.

Yes...its the card signed by your previous spectator.

2 spectators confused in just one trick.

my tuppence worth...

The ultimate sandwich
You have a sarnie wrapped up in plain view, you talk to the audience member - and they describe their favourite fillings...you unwrap yours...it matches...

Sunday Roast
You have a card selected and vanish - look up the chicken's bumhole and there; inside an onion, is the pre-selected card

Torn and restored modnoc
You talk about having the snip as you cut up a condom, then when you later meet the love of your life, you 'restore' it as you mention having the snip reversed...

Morse code ghosts...
You have tape recording of some strange tapping noises you recorded - they tap out in morse code the name of a previously only thought of card...

Horse card...
You play a video/dvd of some wild horses running through a field, the spectator is asked to point at one...as the horse/camera pans past it zooms in on the branded side of the horse which shows the card or word or whatever discussed earlier...

oh that'll do....time for coffee...