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Hey, all.. i threw down a few posts a week ago and recently wandered back to browse and I saw another post about. . . okay i forgot (hummingbird card? one of those "levitation" tricks i always found obvious. . . ) , but it recieved an honest if not curt reply about introducing oneself prior to posting - a reasonable idea, and one that prompted me to seek out this forum and. . . introduce myself.

For you grammar specialists - that was all one sentence
And you would also notice i am usually to lazy to capitalize (capitalise in england) the word i because i am not great enough to enjoy the honor of a capitalized pronoun

Okay. . . as for an introduction. . .
I cannot do the 19:??S thing cuz i think I'm a amateur hobbyist but am unsure of what am amateur is.... webster has two opposite definitions for the word, one meaning beginner and one meaning an advanced whatever. . . I'm the latter but have no troubles being called a beginner cuz I'm way behind most enthusiasts i know.

This means i know lotsa tricks and love giving advice on them but my advice is rarely requested and even more rarely helpful. . .

I'm an AC buff, and I guess I'm more of a card magician. I like one or two impromptu tricks but am too immature to be trusted with small gimmicks... they get lost within the minute of my recieving them.

I'm a pilot, i fly planes I've got all sorts of random certifications, cuz i like having letters after my name. I learn as much as i can about any given subject then move on, but magic somehow holds my attention throughout my life... my daddy was lightly into it and did something cool with an egg once that i kinda remember but cant name. . . anyhoo....

good to meet cha'll... and if anyone can help with my Zodiac Stripper conundrum I'd appreciate it (In the magic wanted forum)

PS the fruit roll up thing is from the greatest band of all time.
PPS I'm an american livin in orlando, home of Disney land

Hello, and welcome to the home of "M,,,,ad people"

Enjoy

Hi sgaterboy - welcome to Talkmagic - I am sure you will fit in really well.

looking forward to sharing ideas, etc with you!

Hi and nice to have you onboard - and thank you for flying with TalkMagic

too immature to be trusted with small gimmicks...

I'm a pilot

Slightly worrying.

Anyhow a very warm welcome to TalkMagic.

... Luckily almost everything of importance in an airplane is bolted down. However, I still put four pencils in my pocket before taking off, and have more than once managed to lose all four in flight. I don't understand how something like a map can without warning disappear inside of a fully enclosed three by five foot box. I guess thats a curse of being both a pilot and a magician. I've lost a checklist when i was halfway through with it.
You know how they tell you to keep practicing a trick until you can fool yourself? and how you should also keep doing it until you can do it without thinking about it? PERSONAL EXPERIENCE: One or the other is fine, but beware of being good enough to do both at once. Peace.

I have a friend who is the opposite of you, he can get off a plane with more than he had when he got on. Blankets, Pillows, Headphones, dozens of miniature bottles of booze, enough paper towels to stock a public washroom for a month etc. Sometimes I think he should be bolted down as well.

Mandrake - he must be a baggage handler

I usually fly with BA but find that the stewardesses are getting more and more like my mum. One said to me on my last flight "eat up all of your dinner, there are people starving on Air India"

Mandrake,

I always get off a plane with more than I got on with

Sgaterboy,

Can I check with you that you ain't the pilot next time I fly

If you set off with 4 pencils in your pocket are you going round the passengers doing Misled

wut scrap of metal you fly sgaterboy...when you said 3 by 5 im guessin somethin really small...katana...152 or 72 cessna???

Mandrake wrote:I have a friend

We've all heard that one before, Mandrake - you really need to remember to give back all those items after practising your pickpocketing technique...

Also, a quick bit of fun for you on a plane: If there's someone near you that's REALLY annoying you (eg, screaming child, nosey-parker, smelly snoring fat man, pickpocket), then, using your misdirection techniques, try and put some eye-drops in their drink. It has a VERY quick and extreme laxative effect. An ex-flight-attendant (he doesn't like to be called a trolley-dolly) told me about that - they use it to deal with troublemakers.

Alternatively, just try it this week at work/college/nursery...

smelly snoring fat man

(and I suspect flatulent as well)
I've suffered that in the past on a flight to Chicago! After putting up with his BO for half an hour I had a quiet word with the cabin attendant who had a discrete sniff around to confirm the problem and, hey presto, I was moved into business class at no extra charge!

'yep ya guess pretty close I fly Cassna 152s, 172s, 82's, Piper arrows and cherokees, senecas, seminoles... ya know, small stuff. I have several hours of training in a 737-700 sim, but i decided to wait a few years. I'll be flight instructing for a while before i actually settle down with an airline.. building time most won't hire me til I'm either 21 or 23, anyways. . .

You are welcome to check and see If I'm in the cockpit before you fly. Bring Pencils. and maybe a snack i can vanish. Or two. . . no eyedrops please.

I was once seated beside a very. . . LARGE woman. (first class.. so i wasn't too uncomfy) we exchanged a few cursory introductions and each went about our reading. halfway through the flight i look over and she has a dog on her lap. one of those little purse dogs, tho she had no purse i could see. . . I was kinda mystified as to where it came from. . . and, an hour later, right after we landed, when i looked back - the dog was GONE. she retrieved her carry-on suitcase from the overhead compartment, and got off. It was the best piece of urban magic i had ever seen. I still cannot figure out where the dog came from or where it went. I was kinda thinking maybe she hid it in a fold of skin or something.. but then wouldn't it suffocate? I dunno. TOTAL mystery.

sgaterboy wrote:I was once seated beside a very. . . LARGE woman. (first class.. so i wasn't too uncomfy) we exchanged a few cursory introductions and each went about our reading. halfway through the flight i look over and she has a dog on her lap. one of those little purse dogs, tho she had no purse i could see. . . I was kinda mystified as to where it came from. . . and, an hour later, right after we landed, when i looked back - the dog was GONE. she retrieved her carry-on suitcase from the overhead compartment, and got off. It was the best piece of urban magic i had ever seen. I still cannot figure out where the dog came from or where it went. I was kinda thinking maybe she hid it in a fold of skin or something.. but then wouldn't it suffocate? I dunno. TOTAL mystery.

For some reason, this left me in hysterics...