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She takes a £50 note from me and makes it all disappear in an instant

Just a quick thought as far as the wonderful mentalism of guessing the speccies thought of currency...

If cool tricks kid named "french" as his currency (which The Keymaster quite rightly pointed out isn't a currency, it's a nationality) wouldn't this be the euro...along with many other countries that may pop to mind when asked to name a country to find their currency? Somehow this seems less impressive than the initial effect, hmmm?

Perhaps it's fair to let you know that cool tricks kid was banned just after midnight.

Mandrake wrote:

Perhaps it's fair to let you know that cool tricks kid was banned just after midnight.

And quite rightly so.

Anyway, referring to my previous post, I have never seen this trick performed "in the flesh" so to speak. I have to wander, what would the magician do if the spectator announced he'd/she's like to see that £50 note turn into some Yen? I don't know but I can only speculate that any good magician either can meet the spectators requests or cleverly find a way around it. I'd be amazed if they have a note of EVERY currency on their person just to perform this trick. Perhaps more than the skill involved to do the trick.

Too bad he got banned; I hate to see that happen to anyone.
Besides, he makes a valid point, in writing: "why is giving the secrets of magic to people wrong? "

Who decided it is wrong?

(Besides dealers, who are not even close to truthful about it, anyway!)

To say it is wrong to give away secrets to someone who wants to know is much like Noel Coward's comments about "the show must go on."

Why? he asks. Who said that? What is the justification? Why must the show go on, but a dealer doesnt HAVE to sell a car?

It's all nonsense!

Too bad he got banned; I hate to see that happen to anyone.

We don't like doing it either but in this case he was banned not for that particular message but the 20 (yes, 20!) others full of profanities and insults. A sad case of throwing a temper tantrum because nobody would tell him how to do the self folding bill trick.

If he'd taken the time to check, I'm told there are 4 or 5 websites which give all the details and instructions!

Twenty! Well, that make a difference.

I found some of the pictures he posted in them to be quite educational, and I am certain that a couple of them couldn't have been physically possible, but there you go.

I am certain that a couple of them couldn't have been physically possible,

You can probably get an explanatory DVD featuring the Masked Magician. No doubt wearing a mask and nothing else!!

In my other life I'm an accountant and I calculate that to turn £20 into £50 would take approx 24.5 years (using 4% compound interest) rather like our young (banned) friend, I'd love to know how to do it instantaneously!

I'd love to know how to do it instantaneously

By magic, of course!