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i agree with the whole spend £5 on £1's worth of coins....

also you constantly borrow peoples stuff to do tricks, even when theyre clearly annoyed...

Mandrake wrote:You avoid metal topped desks and radiators in case your R***n is attracted to them and you end up stuck there all night.

Too true

...you start doing a matrix with those little round cheese biscuits

When making a ham sandwhich you do a D/L - to how the ham is actually on top

I spat out my Jaffa Cake I was in such hysteria!
You owe me one bananafish!

You know you're a magician when...

...you make an effort to call yourself anything other than "Magician" when approaching spectators.

you know you're a magician when...

... You're opening line when "approaching" a girl is "Hey, can I try something on you?"

... You don't understand why you get slapped so often after asking girls to hold your 'balls tightly in their hands.

...when to you bikes are not something to be riden. Well, not normally anyway.

you know you're a magician when...

...the number you associate with 'Steps' is 13, not 39.

You know you're a magician when:

You check all your change to see if you have a steel core coin.

You spend the next few days inadvertantly getting "stuck" to said steel core coin before you remember to take it out of your pocket and store it somewhere safe.

You can't watch a magic show on TV without thinking to yourself "Aha! I know exactly how he does that" and then trying it yourself before coming unstuck within 30 seconds. (Should I say, you know you're not as good a magician as you think you are when: )

You know all too well which card your spouse or child will "mentally chose" nine times out of ten because you've tested your tricks on them so often. (My eldest choses the five of hearts because she is 5 and likes the hearts because they mean "love"). Incidentally, it's also the card the Dundee Society of Magicians have chosen for the "Long Distance Mind Reading" trick taken from the Encylopaedia of Card Tricks (Mog).

I think this applies only to me but I also present my Military ID card from back palm whenever I go to work.

You seem to have some kind of inexplicable playing card fetish.

Your wife regularly signs for packages that she has no idea you have bought or how much you have spent. And frankly,has given up asking about.

(maybe this a personal thing but....) Always looking for the perfect situation to perform the "Blockhead" routine.... ("Ah, I see you have a five inch nail...and a large hammer....may I borrow them for a few minutes?")

You can't watch David Blaine on TV without thinking that any monkey could do the same.

It doesn't matter how many tricks you can do and how well you can do them, you're always on the lookout for the "next big thing".

Morgan wrote:You seem to have some kind of inexplicable playing card fetish.

Dude, I totally have this!!

Lately I haven't been able to get enough of playing cards with people. I'll play poker: Omaha, Texas, 5-card stud, 7-card stud, Pineapple poker, you name it, I've played in the last month.

I've also been playing all the different rummy variations.

I think I've gone insane!!!!!!!!

monker59 wrote:Lately I haven't been able to get enough of playing cards with people. I'll play poker: Omaha, Texas, 5-card stud, 7-card stud, Pineapple poker, you name it, I've played in the last month.

If I name it, and you haven't played it, does that count as a won bet on my part?

If so, I'm looking at this list of invented Poker variations. Most of them might be totally lame variations submitted by thirteen year old kids while taking a break from uploading Youtube videos (but as I don't play Poker I don't know how to tell the difference), however there may be something in there with potential.

Adrian Morgan wrote:I'm looking at this list of invented Poker variations.

DEAR GOD!!! You're feeding my addiction!!

Quick! Someone restrain me!

you know you're a magician when...

...after being accused of thinking like a magician, you take offense

...you have a response to the inevitable "are you sure?" when you get a card signed

Well Bannanafish, you must be married now for almost a year. Here ar a few suggestions for your anniversary. Reserved seating at a Criss Angel lecture, an autographed ice cube tray from David Blaine, if your mate says she wants to go dancing and you think of doing the Sidewalk Shuffle. I think the elephant impression is great but you should add the one armed man counting his change to the routine. You will find that being married will make you solve most of you important decisions by cutting the deck for hiigh card. Hope you like married life, its been good for me and its been almost 43 years.
Best
Al

. . . when you carry around an extra TT, just in case.