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DominicRougier wrote:

shes a bit of a freakishly good mimic

Like an octopus.

????????

eh

just wiki'd it

i now know a lot about the mimic octopus

I never practice around them, although I frequently use my fiance and her daughter as guinea pigs. They're usually good for that, and you know when you've done a routine really well when the daughter gives you that smirky "you've got to be kidding me!" face.

That said, the fiance was a magician's assistant back in the day, so it can be hard to get one over on her since she either saw it done, or has a theory of some kind over how it's done. So jaded...

Magicians? Girlfriends?! What sort of evil falsity is this...

My missis knows most of the moves I use basically due to the fact she is often in the room when I'm practicing and often thing go wrong when you test out a new one and all is revealed.
I also have to watch her blank bored expression when I utter the magical phrase "Have you got a sec? There's something I've been working on that I wish to show you"

Now if that's not an innuendo bingo goldmine I dont know what is!

Farlsborough wrote:

Magicians? Girlfriends?! What sort of evil falsity is this...

Oh c'mon now..... everyone knows that magic is soooo sexy. I personally carry a cut down broom handle, secreted in my trouser wear, in order to fend off the constant female attention. A sharp prod in the solar plexus usually suffices to dampen their ardour... (of course a gentlemans umbrella or large wand, although not technically fit for purpose, can be pressed into similar service. Failing that, a sharp finger flick to the adams apple should be employed in emergencies).

Col's usual comment when he finds out how a trick is done: "That's cheaty."

He's not particularly interested in magic, but as an engineer he's always far more interested in props than a spectator really ought to be, especially props made of metal. He recently grabbed my Matchbox Penetration brass block for close examination. He didn't find the secret, but he had a few choice words to say about how the block was machined. ("Some b------ planed it!")

Which might perhaps be a word of warning to anyone performing for an audience of mechanical and engineering types.

my girlfirend know some of the moves that I use, yet can't do them at all. I've seen her try and p**m a few times but never can seem to grip it right. When I learn a new trick, I always run it by a select few people before actually performing it, my girlfriend, my best friend Jake, and my mother. They've seen me do enough they know how to spot a DL a P**m or somethings of that nature, so if i can perform a trick and fool at least 2 of them, I know I'm good to go.

I sadly don't have a WaG at all... but I do try any random trick I may have in my bag on people at work and friends. They sometimes see it, but rarely do they try it themselves, thanks to the "being able to say but not being able to do" disease that instant self-appointed experts have. (I'll call it Hand in Mouth Disease...) Everyone has been stumped by the ID the first and only time it was shown to them, mind.

I used to show my girlfriend everything, then when I messed up while I was showing her sawing a woman in half I sort of stopped due to em.... unforeseen circumstances......

flashman wrote:Farlsborough wrote:

Magicians? Girlfriends?! What sort of evil falsity is this...

Oh c'mon now..... everyone knows that magic is soooo sexy. I personally carry a cut down broom handle, secreted in my trouser wear, in order to fend off the constant female attention. A sharp prod in the solar plexus usually suffices to dampen their ardour... (of course a gentlemans umbrella or large wand, although not technically fit for purpose, can be pressed into similar service. Failing that, a sharp finger flick to the adams apple should be employed in emergencies).

I heard you carried a sawn-off broom handle down your trousers, but not for that reason...

My girlfriend knows the odd move and sleight but isn't really at all interested. Like most people here, I use her as my test subject, which is usually met with a bored looking roll of the eyes and a "oh, what, right now? I'm watching Hollyoaks".

Mine could give Derren a run for his money lol

DenmarkKilo wrote:I sadly don't have a WaG

Sorry to pick up up on this, but the singular of WaGs can't be WaG. Wives and Girlfriends; wife or girlfriend.

Oh.

Never mind. As you were.

you clearly dont know much about married men as most i know seem to also have a girlfriend