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denny_Corby Loyal user PA 240 Posts |
I just brought this trick back out of my drawer and was thinking. How can I make it logical to put a pen through a borrowed bill. What is your routine? what is your reason for stabbing the pen through the bill. thanks
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magical65stang New user Turlock, CA 73 Posts |
In the restaurant I was telling people this was a counterfeit pen. I would write across the pen and nothing would show up, so I would then jab the pen through it. it caught the spectators off guard and they loved it. I was also a server at the time so money was easy for me to come across. now I just mix it in with a borrowed bill of some sort.
"I'm not a liar, you just don't see the truth."
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The Mighty Fool Inner circle I feel like a big-top tent having 2140 Posts |
For me, the penthrubill is the climax of my bill routine. I've already done VisiBill & slow-burn, so the bill is with me. But to use it solo, ask for the loan of a $100 bill (You'd be surprised!) or a 50 or 20...try to get as big a bill as possible, and have some witty patter / responses ready for the incredulous looks & comments sure to ensue! Once they produce the bill, have THEM place it on the table, then give them the pen & ask them to write their initials oe an 'X', or smiley-face....whatever. Once they write, take the pen & bill and say "You realize you just commited a felony right? Defacing currency! That's NOT GOOD my freind! Well, actually, I'm joking...WRITING on a bill isn't a felony, it's if some moron did anything to DAMAGE the bill (at this point you've impaled the bill on the pen) like this...there, now THAT would be a crime!" Go on to tear the pen out the long way, but fortunately, because it's American currency, it's never damaged, and THAT my freind is the power of the almighty buck!!
Everybody wants to beleive.....we just help them along.
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DomKabala Inner circle I've grown old after diggin' holes for 2827 Posts |
How about this for an effect...use your pen to write a personal check for your goods at the check out counter at the local Wal-Mart; then without warning stab your check with the pen and hand it to the cashier and watch her reaction when you pull the pen out! Bystanders are stunned to say the least!!
"KRaZy4kardz&kash2"
We don't stop playing when we grow old...we grow old when we stop playing.
God is enough, let go, let God. Gal 2:20 "Anything of value is not easily attained and those things which are easily attained are not of lasting value." |
slangers New user Denmark 86 Posts |
Hehe what a reaction you probaly could get.
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Avocat Elite user 446 Posts |
Didn't a logical handling get published in MAGIC a while back? The gist of it was that spectators know you wouldn't tear into a borrowed bill, or at least can't be made to believe you really did it on such short notice. So the routine purported to present a SPINNING bill. The performer punches the pen through the bill in preparation for the spinning and begins to spin it. I'm not sure what the handling was from that point, but I'd guess it was something like: pretend to only just notice how people are horrified by the hole-punch, apologize for being thoughtless and obligingly heal up the hole for them.
The idea is that, if a logical reason for the punch-through is given, the punch-through becomes that much more credible. And the withdrawal is therefore made that much more IN-credible. Oops, almost forgot and it's too late to edit so ... I used to perform the Perfect Pen by performing it once, then "exposing" it by showing them the origami version of "misled" from, I think, Harkey's first book. I know some people may cry foul over the exposure, but I really don't think it fools anyone for long, and it gives me a great lead-in to the surprise "actual" penetration using the gimmick (both penetrations would have used the Perfect Pen gimmick, actually, since, like I said, I don't think the origami version really fools anyone). But after re-thinking it, I'd think the MAGIC handling is probably better. It's more convincing to have them think you inadvertently or callously hole-punched the bill, rather than purposely doing it just to undo it. At least the magical effect, that of healing up the hole, is now motivated and placed in context. |
Larry Davidson Inner circle Boynton Beach, FL 5270 Posts |
Based on my experience performing the effect for many years (probably around 20), punching the hole inadvertently versus purposely makes no difference with respect to how convincing the illusion is. But no matter which way you do it, you should have a seemingly logical motivation for your approach, in other words, answer the "why" question that Denny asked. I punch the hole purposely and I have a reason for doing that other than just "because I can" (a reason that's almost never acceptable for me).
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