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flobiwan Regular user 165 Posts 
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Sknaht!
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daffydoug Eternal Order Look mom! I've got 14077 Posts
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!regnarts dna regnarts gnitteg si daerht sihT
The difficult must become easy, the easy beautiful and the beautiful magical.
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Jonathan Townsend Eternal Order Ossining, NY 27300 Posts
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As long as you don't expect much additional respect for a grade school gag, enjoy. Those who are in grade school and for whom this is new stuff ( joke name of EaCT author too ) enjoy the new territory.
...to all the coins I've dropped here
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Piers Inner circle A Limited Edition of 1394 Posts
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... or what about people who say, 'do you like my latest avatar ? '.
Piers. 
www.justgiving.com/piers-cancer-fund www.justgiving.com/Piers-Cancer-Fund-2 www.justgiving.com/Piers-Cancer-Fund-3 Finished my 4 months of Chemotherapy in 2009. 3 monthly checks since... and into 2021! As seen on the QE2 and QM2. Author of Salem's Cornucopia - SUC Book |
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ringmaster Inner circle Memphis, Down in Dixie 1974 Posts
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Quote: When you give a character a proper name you still have to capitalize it.On 2005-08-07 01:30, Jonathan Townsend wrote:
One of the last living 10-in-one performers. I wanted to be in show business the worst way, and that was it.
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Jonathan Townsend Eternal Order Ossining, NY 27300 Posts
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On 2005-08-14 19:45, ringmaster wrote:...When you give a character a proper name you still have to capitalize it. Agreed Ringmaster. My issue is with those who mistake the obvious non-name for a single real person who wrote the text and who then proceed to make comment about the mindset etc of that person, who may in fact be many people including an editor or two. It would be fun and amusing for all if they were not serious about it. In literary theory this is a case of a text creating its author in the minds of the readership. A feat worthy of Umberto Eco. Again, laudable were it not in the community of magicians who are supposed to be far beyond such things.
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calexa Inner circle Germany 1635 Posts
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On 2005-08-01 20:04, Alan Wheeler wrote: I don´t have a problem with questioning dogmas. It depends on how it is done.... Magixx
Optimists have more fun.....
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BlackShadow Special user London UK 666 Posts
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Well, a good way to lose respect, in my opinion, is making fun of beginners or younger members.
You were all young and inexperienced once, guys. It's all to easy to laugh, but not so easy to learn. Remember that, the next time you deride the sometimes over-enthusiastic or currently nieve beginner. The way you respond today, could be the straw to determine if they consign their fledgling hobby to the trashcan or develop into a star of tomorrow. |
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Pablo Tejero Inner circle Zaragoza, SPAIN 1201 Posts
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The ones I love:
- Which is the best card effects from all the times? (Why? Do you know at least one?) - Which is the best automatic card routine? (Lazy... lazy...) - I have this book, Which is best effect from it? (What´s up`? Is reading boring for you?) - Where to buy the new coolest cobra-tiger-elephant white-rose-green cards made by ellusionist? (If you ask me where to learn magic, maybe I would answer you). - Dvds or books to learn? (First... learn). - I have cheat my friends and win them money with poker (Great for you! Thanks because now I know of who I will never be a friend). Of course, the "how Blaine levitates?" is the best one
All the best magic, Pablo Tejero 
"The Magic is in the air, you just have to... breathe it!"
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rannie Inner circle 4375 Posts
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I don't like people earning posts by posting things like;
this has been discussed before try the search function Rannie If we want to help, might as well go all the way. Otherwise its just blabber.
"If you can't teach an old dog new tricks, trick the old dog to learn."
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Bill Palmer Eternal Order Only Jonathan Townsend has more than 24314 Posts
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When you have more than 5000 posts, you aren't posting this to increase your post count, you are posting it because some unenlightened soul didn't try looking first.
A perfect example is the one recently posted in the busking forum, called Permits? If they had searched using the word permit, they would have found the thread that they have been referred to. Try searching on "cups and balls" just once. See what you find. Here's one that, as far as I'm concerned, shows the ultimate in laziness. http://www.themagiccafe.com/forums/viewt......30&1 I googled Yigal Mesika and found the information. I'm not going to post it on the forum. If someone wants the information, he or she can google it as well. If you count the keystrokes it took the original poster to ask the question and compare it to the 16 keystrokes it would take to google it, this shows not laziness, but a lack of initiative. I realize that his web site isn't on the first page. It's a bunch of dealers there, but when you find his web site on the second page, it is pretty obvious which one it is. "You must learn to think for yourselves!" -- Brian "WE MUST LEARN TO THINK FOR OURSELVES!" -- the crowd -- from Life of Brian
"The Swatter"
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Dave Le Fevre Inner circle UK 1666 Posts
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On 2005-08-06 23:38, Jonathan Townsend wrote: Young and smart are not necessarily exclusive. (Not that I'm young. Nor would I claim to be smart.) Most hobbies or professions have their own understood shorthand. And "Erdnase" is often to be used as understood shorthand for "Expert at the Card Table". And, more to the point, that isn't the privilege of some inner coterie of magic. If it's ok for PD to say it, it's ok for me to say it. Dave
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John Cass Regular user 131 Posts
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One way to lose respect permanently is to show your hindquarters to the whole forum, leave, come back and leave almost instantly.
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BlackShadow Special user London UK 666 Posts
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Oooo.... very cutting John. And I thought you were a roll model
Mind you it's happened before with the fellow in question, so no real suprises there. I think some people just get more upset/intense over board type things and need longer to chill than others. |
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Dave V Inner circle Las Vegas, NV 4824 Posts
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"I got $10 for my birthday, what should I buy?"
"I want the exact same thing I saw McBride do. But I don't want to spend over $50..." "I need it for a paid show this Saturday"
No trees were killed in the making of this message, but a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced.
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daffydoug Eternal Order Look mom! I've got 14077 Posts
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Those are typical! Gotta laugh!
Posted: Sep 3, 2005 11:16am Quote: On 2005-08-15 16:04, Jonathan Townsend wrote: Quote: On 2005-08-14 19:45, ringmaster wrote:...When you give a character a proper name you still have to capitalize it. Agreed Ringmaster. My issue is with those who mistake the obvious non-name for a single real person who wrote the text and who then proceed to make comment about the mindset etc of that person, who may in fact be many people including an editor or two. It would be fun and amusing for all if they were not serious about it. In literary theory this is a case of a text creating its author in the minds of the readership. A feat worthy of Umberto Eco. Again, laudable were it not in the community of magicians who are supposed to be far beyond such things. Sort of like that one classic episode of "M.A.S.H." about the imaginary Lt. Tuttle? (If you happened to see it.)
The difficult must become easy, the easy beautiful and the beautiful magical.
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Jerrine Special user Busking is work. 629 Posts
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"I got $10 for my birthday, what should I buy?"
Sounds like a kid wanting to spend his/her new found gain on a wise choice. Why lose respect? I bought Mark Wilson's Cyclopedia of Magic for $1 at a second hand store. A set of sponge balls at $4.95. Two decks of Bikes at Wally World for $3. Right there under $10 I got something going. A chance to guide a youngster in the right direction, yes, loss of respect, no. No disrespect intended. |
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daffydoug Eternal Order Look mom! I've got 14077 Posts
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That's a good perspective you are coming from. We all gotta' start somewhere. My first effects purchased were "Color Changing Ball to square" and "Proffesors Nightmare", and a little packet efect involving four queens. Not exactly an auspicious start, but it has led me to this point after twenty or thirty years.
"The journey of a thousand miles begins with the first step"
The difficult must become easy, the easy beautiful and the beautiful magical.
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ed rhodes Inner circle Rhode Island 2889 Posts
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On 2005-08-01 19:47, Dr_Stephen_Midnight wrote: Yeah, but Mark gets killed everytime he shows up.
"...and if you're too afraid of goin' astray, you won't go anywhere." - Granny Weatherwax
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daffydoug Eternal Order Look mom! I've got 14077 Posts
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Who's Mark?
The difficult must become easy, the easy beautiful and the beautiful magical.
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