When you watch the masked magician to learn more.

When you have a new learning experience watching the masked magician perform.

If you purchase a trick because it looks good revealed by the masked magician.

When you decided to tell the world that you are the original masked magician and the idiot out there is the knock-off version copying your TV acts.

When you have an autographed photo of the Masked Magician without his mask on the wall of your workshop.

If you are the masked magician.

Thanks, tabman, for the kind words. I am glad you like that specially autographed photo. Its my funny bones getting tickled again.

When you try and compete with James in continuing post.

When you keep posting and do not know how and when to stop?

When you become an addict on the Magic Café.

When you suddenly realized that you are not in the physical magic world but just sitting in front of your PC posting to someone you have never personally met.

When you are on the Café and receiving e-mail request too.

When you don't know if your Café friends are real or figments of your imagination.

When you reveal the shows you did to the IRS.

When you neatly stack all your cross shredded papers into cubes of Chinese Snowstorms - taking two hours just to save 8 dollars....... but you did it yourself!

When you glue spring steel inside real flowers.

When you go to the home store and look at every light trying to make a new M in LB

When you know what M n LB is

When you make a stripper deck out of your business cards even though they are all the same.

When you tie-dye your strait jacket so people won't think you escaped an insane asylum.

When at any time you have ever used your squeaker in a shoe or on an elevator.

When you want to do your best impression of W.C. Fields at a birthday party.

When you actually have dinner with your sponsor and all he talks about is his business and all you talk about are your shows.

When you only date girls that fit in the box.

When you try to make them get in the box on the first date.

When you try to convince them that making 30 good phone calls a day is glamorous.

When you wear any kind of flashing, glowing or spinning name tag in public.

When you go to another magicians show and hand out business cards.

When you steal all the magic books from the library,

When you're looking at two orders to get out but continue typing even though it's the same 5 people who read this thread.

When you think you can add another 5 paragraphs to match the volume of Magicbus

When you write every one of these ideas separately so you can up your total like, you know who... who asks everyone why he doesn't get the support he deserves even though he asks that same question at least three times a week, 52 weeks a year for the past 4 years.

When you wear a spinning bowtie with your work uniform...

When you call all your girlfriends Trixie.

That you insist on doing the Gypsy Thread routine only using thread obtained from a real gypsy.

When Trixie Bond clobbers tabman for calling her his girlfriend.

When you knew Trixie when she worked at Magic Island.