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ej16 wrote:

Discombobulator wrote:If I was totally unprepared and needed something quick and impromptu then .... no grey elephants in Denmark.

simple and totally without gimmicks. Dont even need a pen and paper!

Sorry to sound ignorant, but are you being sarcastic

Ej - this is a very old, pretty well-known, routine:

Pick a number between 1 and 10
Multiply it by 9
If it's a 2 digit number, add them together
Now subtract 5
Right, now map the result to a letter of the alphabet, where A=1, B=2 and so on
Think of a country which begins with that letter.
Take the second letter of the country and think of an animal which begins with that letter
Think of the colour of that animal...
You're thinking of a grey elephant from Denmark, right?

ej16 wrote:Mentalism withot a gimmick. Where. If anyone does find mentalism without a gimmck please get in touch

Thanks
Ej16

That's easy. Just lose the clothes

magicrob wrote:

ej16 wrote:

Discombobulator wrote:If I was totally unprepared and needed something quick and impromptu then .... no grey elephants in Denmark.

simple and totally without gimmicks. Dont even need a pen and paper!

Sorry to sound ignorant, but are you being sarcastic

Ej - this is a very old, pretty well-known, routine:

Pick a number between 1 and 10
Multiply it by 9
If it's a 2 digit number, add them together
Now subtract 5
Right, now map the result to a letter of the alphabet, where A=1, B=2 and so on
Think of a country which begins with that letter.
Take the second letter of the country and think of an animal which begins with that letter
Think of the colour of that animal...
You're thinking of a grey elephant from Denmark, right?

If this trick does not work is there an out to save the routine?

ej16 wrote: If this trick does not work is there an out to save the routine?

Yes - give up on mentalism

Tomo wrote:

ej16 wrote:Mentalism withot a gimmick. Where. If anyone does find mentalism without a gimmck please get in touch

Thanks
Ej16

That's easy. Just lose the clothes

You and your god damn naked-ness

phillipnorthfield wrote:

Tomo wrote:

ej16 wrote:Mentalism withot a gimmick. Where. If anyone does find mentalism without a gimmck please get in touch

Thanks
Ej16

That's easy. Just lose the clothes

You and your god damn naked-ness

To the tune of For He's A Jolly Good Fellow:

Let's all get drunk and go naked,
Let's all get drunk and go naked,
Let's all get drunk and go naked...
And lie in a great big pile!

I didn't notice you at my last party, Jon

magicrob wrote:

ej16 wrote: If this trick does not work is there an out to save the routine?

Yes - give up on mentalism

ej16 wrote: If this trick does not work is there an out to save the routine?

So you were NOT thinking of a grey elephant from Denmark huh? .... well I bet you are now !!

magicrob wrote:Pick a number between 1 and 10
Multiply it by 9
If it's a 2 digit number, add them together
Now subtract 5
Right, now map the result to a letter of the alphabet, where A=1, B=2 and so on
Think of a country which begins with that letter.
Take the second letter of the country and think of an animal which begins with that letter
Think of the colour of that animal...
You're thinking of a grey elephant from Denmark, right?

Just fooled the mrs with that mate ! cheers

I'm with Mr's Voodini, Ward and the other wise fellows on this one and consider cold reading to be the strongest gimmick-less thing you can perform. In fact, my whole seance show is pretty much gimmick-less and relies on suggestion, etc though I consider it to be paranormal or occult entertainment rather than mentalism.

I tend to cringe at the word mentalism these days as it brings to mind a spotty geek with thirty seven envelopes, a gaffed calculator and a convulted routine which has an ending you can seen a mile off.

Discombobulator wrote:

ej16 wrote: If this trick does not work is there an out to save the routine?

So you were NOT thinking of a grey elephant from Denmark huh? .... well I bet you are now !!

How did you know?

ej16 wrote:

Discombobulator wrote:If I was totally unprepared and needed something quick and impromptu then .... no grey elephants in Denmark.

simple and totally without gimmicks. Dont even need a pen and paper!

Sorry to sound ignorant, but are you being sarcastic

Nope, there is a Max Maven routine called Elephant in Denmark; a cute twist on an old classic found in the Annemann book on forces.

Study up on forcing techniques and then use your imagination for creating stories using them and concealing them -- obfuscating what they actually are.

Oh! I've used my own variation to the Elephant trick on radio shows many times, as a demonstration of telepathic control. . . a bloody card trick that kills!

Craig Browning wrote:

ej16 wrote:

Discombobulator wrote:If I was totally unprepared and needed something quick and impromptu then .... no grey elephants in Denmark.

simple and totally without gimmicks. Dont even need a pen and paper!

Sorry to sound ignorant, but are you being sarcastic

Nope, there is a Max Maven routine called Elephant in Denmark; a cute twist on an old classic found in the Annemann book on forces.

Study up on forcing techniques and then use your imagination for creating stories using them and concealing them -- obfuscating what they actually are.

Oh! I've used my own variation to the Elephant trick on radio shows many times, as a demonstration of telepathic control. . . a bloody card trick that kills!

Didn't Max Maven do the davici code book test?

Da Vinci (that's the second time you've misspelled it, so I assume it's not just a slip).

You seem very interested in The Da Vinci Zone, ej16. Why's that? It's very much not something that fits within this cateogry! It was a reasonably good book test that was arguably over-priced for what you got, but not a bad purchase for a working stage mentalist.