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From: wayneryder
Date: Thu May 9, 2002 12:24pm
Subject: Re: top 50 magic tricks
Yep, I even recorded it for posterity. Adam & Joe, magic, Derren
Brown... how could I not?
As I've only ever caught about 1.5 of the 3 Mind Control shows, it
was good to see the Blair Witch 'trick' (have we decided on a name
for these yet?) and the guy forgetting his Tube stop.
Otherwise:
The Blaine card trick's probably a force; listen for the car horn
sounding (rather loudly, sounds like it's close by) before he throws
the cards, a sure signal for an assistant to stick the 'chosen' card
to the window.
Good though he is, he doesn't really do anything new, as the show
demonstrated. The swallowed cotton thread springs to mind.
I read in the Guardian TV Guide before seeing it that you can work
out how Paul Zenon removes the tax disk. I haven't yet myself. Maybe
the reviewer saw a preview tape that gave the game away.
The pulse trick can be done with a tennis ball under the arm against
a pressure point on your bicep; whether or not that's what the guy on
the show did, I don't know.
--- In a previous message lauren_macsporren
wrote:
> Did anyone see the Top 50 Magic Tricks programme the other night? I
> was so proud of Derren for getting 3 of his things into the chart!
> Personally, I'd have put them all in but the foooooools didnt! I
was
> rather pleased to see him appear many times, and in fact, my crazy
> dream was down to that programme.
>
> I'm glad they put that David Blaine one in where he throws the
cards
> at the window and the right card is on the other side. And that
Paul
> Zennon (is that his name?) one where he takes the tax disc off the
> car even though it's inside. Very clever, unless the car was his
own
> and there was someone inside hiding, ready to take the disc off.
> How did that bloke stop his pulse? Unless he had fake arms I'm
> baffled.
>
> Lauren xx
