On 2012-03-03 21:42, REV BILL wrote:
Doesn't Chris Capehart do something like that?

On 2012-03-04 14:03, jay leslie wrote:
This is in the Ho Yam book, from the early 40s. "The Elusive Chinese Boy" although the book does not say how the idea was developed

On 2012-03-04 23:15, spartacus wrote:
I was doing this with our SAM school shows in 1960. I borrowed a doll from my next door neighbor when I lived on Desire street in New Orleans. So if you did not do it before 1960 you ripped it from me and I want compensation. My SAM buddy, Ralph Fountain, was the sound man with a tape machine and he played the Sabre Dance every minute in a half during a 10 min. act that made me rush over and empty the lota bowl into a pail. PM me and I;ll give you my mailing address to send the checks.

On 2012-03-06 00:14, Bob1Dog wrote:
I'll be perfectly honest here; I've not heard of the lota bowl being used this way. I'd love to put the idea into a kids show, but do the parent's ever object to it?

On 2012-03-05 09:39, magicians wrote:

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On 2012-03-04 23:15, spartacus wrote: I was doing this with our SAM school shows in 1960. I borrowed a doll from my next door neighbor when I lived on Desire street in New Orleans. So if you did not do it before 1960 you ripped it from me and I want compensation. My SAM buddy, Ralph Fountain, was the sound man with a tape machine and he played the Sabre Dance every minute in a half during a 10 min. act that made me rush over and empty the lota bowl into a pail. PM me and I;ll give you my mailing address to send the checks.

Looks like you owe the guy from 1957 a check or two. Lol. I think this gag was a natural evolution of thought and probably suggested by the first sellers of the effect. Boys being boys, a good pee joke always works.

On 2012-03-06 00:14, Bob1Dog wrote:
I'll be perfectly honest here; I've not heard of the lota bowl being used this way. I'd love to put the idea into a kids show, but do the parent's ever object to it?

On 2012-03-08 00:00, spartacus wrote:
Imagine this, a soon to be 74 year old man time travels back to the 1960s trying to remember where did he get something that is being asked about 50 years later. Then it happens, an explanation, a remembrance, this coming from a guy who cannot remember what he had for breakfast this morning. Why did he decide to put a doll on top of a blue lota bowl? Remember I mentioned the little girl from next door, the kid that one of my many ex-wives baby sat - she was about 7 or 8 and she had a doll, a doll that peed. You stick a toy water bottle in the dolls mouth and the doll wets itself. That's where the idea came from. I did a little background check, dolls that wet themselves and have tears have been around since the 1930s. It may very well be I read about the gag somewhere and I thought about using it with this doll. Anyway, that's my story and I'm sticking with it. Now I need a drink to forget about that ex-wife you made me think about.
BTW, I was a big fan of George McCathy back in those days and that gag may very well be in one of his books that I no longer have. There was a few other magic gag books around too, so it may be in something, like the old Tops magazines.