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TomBaker
Regular user
125 Posts
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Posted: Apr 25, 2011 12:36pm
Okay, I was working at an office supply company in Charlotte, NC, it was about 2:40pm and for some reason I had this nickel in my hand.
I said "hey...let's see if this will land on it's edge.." I flipped the nickel, it hit the floor bounced a couple times and landed flat...then stood up on it's edge and stayed that way!!!!
TRUE story.
Put that nickel in an envelope there and wrote "Magic Nickel 4-25-86 aprox 2:40pm" on it...and have kept it ever since!!
I know there's been coins dropped or flipped where they ended up staying on their edge but wonder if anybody ever said "...see if it lands on it's edge..." and had it happen!!!????
Later today around 2:40pm I'm gonna buy a lottery ticket or two!!
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jazzy snazzy
Inner circle
run off by a mob of Villagers wielding
2053 Posts
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Posted: Apr 25, 2011 12:58pm
Twilight Zone
A Penny for Your Thoughts" February 3, 1961
A man (Dick York) gains the ability to read minds when a coin he flips stands on its edge.
"The secret of life is to look good from a distance."
-Charles Schulz
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George Ledo
Magic Café Columnist
SF Bay Area
2205 Posts
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Posted: Apr 25, 2011 2:10pm
That's really cool.
Back in the eighth grade, our school went to a local fair and I ran into a couple of the other kids at the wheel of fortune (or whatever it's called). I was really into magic back then--had won the school talent show with a magic act--and everyone at school knew it. So my friend asked me to play, and I told her I'd watch her once and then play and win.
So she played and didn't win. I put down a quarter, or whatever it was, and the lady behind the counter spun the wheel. I did a couple of magic passes at the wheel (the lady giving me a very strange look), and sure enough the wheel stopped at my number.
The spooky thing was that I watched it slow down just as it was coming to my number, and I thought it was going to go just beyond it, but the darn thing stopped.
I seem to remember a shiver going up and down my spine... 
That's Burt, aka The Great Burtini, doing his famous Cups and Mice routine
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stoneunhinged
Inner circle
Göttingen
3005 Posts
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Posted: Apr 25, 2011 3:24pm
George, that's a really cool story.
An idealistic, obsequious, sycophantic Mai-Ling kisser-upper....
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Erwin
New user
56 Posts
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Posted: Apr 25, 2011 7:16pm
George, God bless that fairground lady for making a kid magician's day!
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Michael Baker
Inner circle
Near a river in the Midwest
8558 Posts
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Posted: Apr 25, 2011 9:51pm
I was with some friends once and said, "Watch, I'll show you a trick." I had a cigarette going at the time so I tossed it to the ground where it bounced and stood straight up on the filter. They were impressed, but not as much as I was. That wasn't the trick I had intended, and I never got to show them the other one. I wish I could do it with a coin, though.
~michael baker
The Magic Company
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balducci
Veteran user
Canada
378 Posts
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Posted: Apr 25, 2011 10:34pm
OMG ... I was just fast forwarding through Kiefer Sutherland's 1997 movie "Truth or Consequences NM" to see what it's like, whether or not it was worth watching.
At one point I sampled, Keifer's character says (paraphrased slightly) "That's my special quarter ... It's not what it is, it's what it represents ... Some cat flipped a quarter up on a newsstand and it landed on its edge. Now what are the chances of that?"
Crazy coincidental that I should come across that today, when this thread started up.
"We're a capitalistic society. I go into business, I don't make it, I go bankrupt. They're not going to bail me out. I've been on welfare and food stamps. Did anyone help me? No." - Craig T. Nelson, actor.
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Magnus Eisengrim
Inner circle
Sulla placed heads on
1021 Posts
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Posted: Apr 25, 2011 10:45pm
It's freaky how coincidences always seem to happen at the same time...
John
I do not wish my name or image to be associated with the arbitrary and capricious abuse of power.
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critter
Inner circle
Spokane, WA
2334 Posts
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Posted: Apr 26, 2011 11:23am
I read this weekend about this doctor who used coconut water for blood transfusions during WWII. Then when I went to my German class yesterday this girl was telling some other students about the benefits of coconut water. Spoooooooookyyyyyyy.
I throw stuff.
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Ichi-go ichi-e
"Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage."
-Theodore Roosevelt
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Erwin
New user
56 Posts
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Posted: Apr 26, 2011 11:45am
There's nothing unusual about coincidence. We even have a word for it.
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stoneunhinged
Inner circle
Göttingen
3005 Posts
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Posted: Apr 26, 2011 12:22pm
Quote:
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On 2011-04-26 11:45, Erwin wrote:
There's nothing unusual about coincidence. We even have a word for it.
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What would that word be?
An idealistic, obsequious, sycophantic Mai-Ling kisser-upper....
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kerpa
Special user
Michael Miller
593 Posts
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Posted: Apr 26, 2011 1:03pm
As I recall, Mark Jenest, used the word "coinkeedink" or something like that.
Michael Miller
(Michael Merlin: original family --and stage-- name)
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Bob1Dog
Inner circle
Wife: It's me or this houseful of
1243 Posts
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Posted: Apr 25, 2012 12:59pm
Quote:
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On 2011-04-26 11:23, critter wrote:
I read this weekend about this doctor who used coconut water for blood transfusions during WWII. Then when I went to my German class yesterday this girl was telling some other students about the benefits of coconut water. Spoooooooookyyyyyyy.
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Synchronicity Central
What if the Hokey Pokey really IS what it's all about? 
My neighbor rang my doorbell at 2:30 a.m. this morning, can you believe that, 2:30 a.m.!? Lucky for him I was still up playing my drums.
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critter
Inner circle
Spokane, WA
2334 Posts
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Posted: Apr 25, 2012 2:03pm
Yeah, creepy ain't it? Told you that stuff happens to me all the time!
I throw stuff.
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Ichi-go ichi-e
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-Theodore Roosevelt
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