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williamHerrick
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The title of this topic says it all -- really funny, very corny. Send in two wrappers from Whiz candy bars (wrapped in cellophane for freshness) and 6 cents and be sent a book of magic tricks.

http://www.archive.org/stream/PartyMag19......56kb.mp4

If this mp4 stream doesn't work for you, go to the following page, right click on the "MPEG 1" link, click "save target as" and download it -- you can then play it on Windows Media Player.

http://www.archive.org/details/PartyMag1938

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There are a number of words that can describe what I just saw. Some of which include:

-Golly Gee.
-Zoinks.
-Jinkies.
and
-Gosh.


Anyways, those chocolates looked disgusting.
williamHerrick
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But Amir, don't you think it's funny for just those reasons. It is so lame it is beautiful right?

Please don't tell me you didn't find it amusing at all.

The obvious thing is have the video playing on a tv behind you or on a laptop screen, and tell the audience you have been trying to practice this advanced trick you saw. The kid on the film does the trick, you do it as well, but you're string gets cut at the end -- then you go into alternate effect where something else happens, etc...

If guys think this ain't funny *at all*...well...man!...

By the way, that kid in the film is the image a lot of *laypeople* have of us magicians...Smile

Looking for a little positive feedback here!

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I enjoyed the clip and yes, its bad enough to be good. In a strange way.
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I would like to see it but the links pages says this:

The item you have requested had an error:

Error reading XML data

which prevents us from displaying this page.
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Quote:
On 2005-12-11 20:41, Amir wrote:
-Golly Gee.
-Zoinks.
-Jinkies.
and
-Gosh.

I agree 100%, Amir!

I think it's a blast. It doesn't seem to me that it's an unusually-styled ad for that era, and it had to be dead simple so that every kid who had the skill to eat a WHIZ Bar could also be sure to have the skill to do the trick!

By the way, I was able to view it in my browser (Mac OS X w/ Firefox 1.0.7), and was able to download it by right clicking.
Dan McLean Jr
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Aaaargh! Exposure! We'll never be able to do magic again! Heresy!

The same trick is in every "Cub Scout Magic Tricks" and "simple magic" book in print.

Anybody know if the kid kept on in magic?
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Ward, The Beavers doing those magic tricks again, you two better have a little talk
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