When you play checkers with the checkers from your original Okito Checker Cabinet.

When you practice so much that you do not have time to post on the Café.

When you realize that you've spent a hundred hours posting in the Now That's Funny section

(Which conversely isn't funny at all)
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When your best friends in the world are James, Tabman, Father Photius, Dynamike and Joseph (and coming up from the rear.. now along side.... making a run for it......... Yes. It's Magicbus in a nose to nose finish with the Great Alexander's Poster)

(But you haven't ever met any of them)

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When you buy several thousand dollars of magic to resell, sight unseen,

(And instead of sorting through it, you're posting)

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When you are Joseph's dry cleaner and you're thinking about joining a magic club so you can get Joseph to pick up his clothes otherwise you won't see him for a month.

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When you start a rock & roll magic band so you can use magic wands as drum sticks, a Indian rope trick, flute, your left-over Asrah kevlar to make a Sitar and the paper form your shadow box as the skins for your drums. The girls can still wear the same costumes but you need to tone it down a bit or they'll think you're an 80s band... or Dynamike)

Yes it's so true, Magic is a great world ain't it?? An example: Pete Biro and I became friends through the pages of Genii Magazine and letters in the 70s and then online on MAGIC! http://mfbtw.com in the 80s long before we actually met in person over 20 years ago. We still talk online several times a day.

so, let's try one...

When you feel a friendship with the Magicians you named and you, Jay. It would be great to meet up in person but even if we don't, friendship knows no boundries. I always check this thread first just to see what my friends are saying and see if I can get one in there.

-=tabman

Who is this? Oh... It's you Tabman... It's getting cold. Come a little closer, I want to tell you something... It's so cold.... I have just one last request before the lights go out. One last request and I'll never ask you for another favor - Will you please help me get my head out of the refrigerator.. I'm stuck

Holy cow ... are you still stuck inside, Jay. I told you to use the washing machine but you still insist on using the refrigerator.

When your first instinct is to help Jay get out of the refrigerator.

That's Rick Maisel's act http://www.rickmaisel.com/escapes.htm

I heard he "cleans-up" on that one,

When you grow roses in your ball and vase set...

When you purchase extra ball and vase sets and plant them in your backyard, with
the above, hoping that the bees will cross-pollinate them.

When after 5 straight days you have received nothing in the mail that isn't magic related.

When mold grows on all your tricks.

When you've reinvented the Double L for the 100th time.

When you have to pay someone to dust.

When you cannot pay someone to dust so you have to dust the props all the time for them to be free from dust.

When you save the above dustings and keep them in your woofle dust jar.

Thanks, tabman. You just saved me a lot of money from buying original woofle dust.

Be careful though, it'll make you sneeze!!

Makes me sneeze anyway.

When you sneeze and that bean, you lost last month, flies out your nose.