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I worked a wedding fair on Sunday.

Despite being floored with a really rotten cold, I still managed to have fun and take some bookings.

It also provided me with one of my oddest experiences.

One couple came through with their ten-year-old son. I pulled out a deck of cards, handed it to them, asked them to shuffle the deck, pull out one card and replace the deck in the box. To make sure that this was their card, I handed them my Sharpie, and asked them to sign their name across the face.

That's right folks, the Extractor has a hotline to my wallet!

For a quick, make-the-point trick, this one's a high-impact no-brainer, which was exactly what I needed in my snuffly state.

So I handed them the Sharpie, at which point they all exploded with glee.

"Ooooh! A David Beckham Pen! Wow!"

They forgot all about the trick at that point. They grabbed my business card and my brochure and started talking about the wedding date, when's the best time for me to perform, and asking about my rates.

Seems like that'll be an easy gig, so long as I remember my David Beckham pen...

I find it really odd to see him advertising pens.


Adidas, underwear, pepsi, even shaving equipment all make sense to some degree, as they're big companies and some of them make use of his 'qualities'. But i can't see how David Beckham and a Sharpie go together. Although I'm sure innuendo-freaks could think of a way.

Aren't footballers supposed to 'mark' the opposition players ?

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Genius.

Mandrake,

You deserve a red card for that!

Plus a penalty awarded against you.

( whatever you can do, I can do worse )

Mandrake wrote:Aren't footballers supposed to 'mark' the opposition players ?

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Ouch!!

don't forget your "mini me" sharpies as givaways.

perhapse you could get some beckham headshot stickers to go on them...... hmmm dendit like becckham, bent pen, shrinking beckham and jumping beckham sticker ala paddle move.

I had this exact problem at a Wedding about 3 weeks ago. I use the sharpie and use a line saying the pen was named after a Japanese dog... to which the punter says "Did you nick that pen off Beckham??"

It annoyed me, but relieved me at the same time. I was happy that it made people aware of the brand, as before when I handed out a Sharpie no one had any clue as to what they were - for all they knew it could have been a trick pen. In fact before the beckham thing I found people wanted to examine the pen even after doing a minor task like signing a card. Sharpie will now be accepted as a brand and people wont be suspicious any more.

However, its a pain that every time I work I have people saying "Oooh a Beckham pen". In fact, at the wedding I mentioned before, the cheeky speccy asked if he could have the pen BECAUSE IT WAS A BECKHAM PEN!!

Traa laa laaa, done

Mark

I have had this happen so many times recenty i have actually used patter for it.

The power of advertising is unreal,