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Mandrake wrote:

i wonder how many TalkMagic members i could get to come to some form of meet up? (#ponders starting a gathering thread#)

Wouldn't you just know there would be an existing thread? Check out http://www.talkmagic.co.uk/ftopic5479.p ... ht=meeting

i was thinking something more up to date than "Mon Aug 29, 2005". but i'd probably end up not arranging anything and it'd all be for nothing. ah well, we'll see

Why don't you try get a job doing magic? Or else learn the 3 card monte, and skin all your mates!!

dfitz1000 wrote:Why don't you try get a job doing magic? Or else learn the 3 card monte, and skin all your mates!!

they stopped falling for that one a while back!
although i generally do use magic to get people to buy me drinks.

Mandrake wrote:But don't worry - as you slowly slip into unconsciousness, we'll all come round and do some flourishes, a few coin and rope effects and perhaps a finale involving canes, silks and doves. No, on second thoughts, forget the doves - you'd probably try to eat them (I think we'd better cancel the cake from hat and rabbit production routines as well).

oh my God....you almost made me pee from laughing...brilliant...brilliant...my kind of humor

Well as you are in Hull, there are a number of avenues open to you.

Get some bricks, stew them for half an hour and then hitch over to Lancashire (anywhere will do). Explain that you've come over with some genuine Yorkshire stewed bricks and they'll gobble 'em up.

As it's so flat, you could offer a bicyle rickshaw service for the people of Ferriby and Swanland into Hull. Say £1 each way? Can you pick me up at half past six on Friday night, please?

You could buy a house on Spring Bank: I think that they are going for around £35 + vat. Fill it full of fish and charge an entry, it's got to be better than that Aquarium. I think that there are still fish in Hull.

You could paint your face and giggle at small children. If you threw a few magic tricks in with the giggles, the parents might pay you. If you advertised in the villages on your rickshaw route you might get some punters.

And then there are the traditional jobs of the Hull estates (I don't mean trawlerling like my family either) ....

I hope the operation is not to remove say a kidney that you plan to sell on ebay or something. Because selling your body is not the way to go! Im joking, im not stopping you from becoming a male escort if thats what you would really like.

Could you not use magic to earn money? Imagine the cheers from the crowd if you managed to make one of your university buildings disappear! and the amount of money that people would pay to see it happen!!

At the moment im just trying to sell lots on ebay that i dont use any more. Old mobile phones, magic props, dvds, etc. Yes im afraid i am a poor student as well!

i use the magic as much as i can. i had a night out for 2pound 50 the other night. it's amazing how many people are willing to gamble with someone they know practices slieght of hand half the day!

i am now considering doing some Copperfield style vanishing the uni library stuff. or i could just out myself in a big block of ice for 2 days!
would be the biggest thing i've ever done. but given that the biggest thing i've done to date is come comedy style levitation bit (pretty much just ripping off Men In Coats), dissappearing anything bigger say.. a rabbit.. would be the biggest thing i've done!
hmm.... we have a juggling event tonight.... maybe i could vanish a juggler....

have you tried busking or table hoping?

talk to some bar managers or restaurant managers!

show them your best stuff and they dont have to pay you the customers leave you tips and all this while the customers are waiting for thier food so they dont get bored?

When i was at University i lived on pasta and beans

tiggy49 wrote:have you tried busking or table hoping?

talk to some bar managers or restaurant managers!

show them your best stuff and they dont have to pay you the customers leave you tips and all this while the customers are waiting for thier food so they dont get bored?

i like this idea!

currently in talks with the president of a music society to do some magic and fire juggling at his next event, which i will be getting paid for. wooo wooo

How does stop scrounging and get a job sound? Bloody students! Can I ask what subject your studying?

maths.
i'd have a job if i had enough spare time for one