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Clay New user Wyoming 18 Posts |
To all my magical peers I offer this friendly advice regarding pocket management: Don't put gimmicked coins in same pocket where you normally carry change! My folding qaurter is missing and I suspect I spent it! Woe is me ...
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Magicman0323 Special user Just outside parts unknown. 713 Posts |
Clay,
I can vouch for that, I've also had the sorrow of "losing" my coins once I get home only to realize that I did pay for lunch, most expensive lunch I've ever had to pay for considering I had to order the gimmick again once I got home.
You'll wonder when I'm coming, you'll wonder even more when I'm gone. - Max Malini
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Steve Landavazo Special user Northern California 654 Posts |
A friend of mine actually got one in his change...
Steve
Courage is the willingness to be afraid and act anyway!
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Clay New user Wyoming 18 Posts |
Steve, think your friend will send it to me?
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Steve Brooks Founder / Manager Northern California - United States 3780 Posts |
Heck no, now I have TWO scotch and sodas.
"Always be you because nobody else can" - Steve Brooks
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Doug Byrd Veteran user VA 361 Posts |
I've heard of angry spouses and girlfriends spending these special coins just to tick off their unattentive men. Thus ends the lesson...
Doug
"Sic gorgiamus allos subjectatos nunc"
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Robin Parker Regular user Atlanta 117 Posts |
Also, be careful about putting shells in the same pocket as a different but similiar coin b/c sometimes a penny for example could get stuck in a half shell. In such a case, the extraction has to be performed quite carefully.
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Steve Brooks Founder / Manager Northern California - United States 3780 Posts |
If this happens, use a glass (not a bang ring) and gently rattle it loose.
It may take time, but it will eventually come out... right Ichazod? And whatever you do, do not try and pry it out with a knife or something, you will bend the shell for sure! _________________ Life is not a problem to be solved... but a mystery to be lived.
"Always be you because nobody else can" - Steve Brooks
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saglaser Loyal user Champaign, IL 248 Posts |
And for heaven's sake remember to take them OUT of your pockets. I still have most of a set of deep-down cleaned, but slightly mangled, Hopping Halves. One shell, however, escaped with the inevitable disappearing sock.
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Peter Marucci Inner circle 5389 Posts |
Yet another reason (as if one was needed) why I use my No-Gimmick Scotch and Soda.
(The vanishing shell syndrome?) If anyone is interested, e-mail me privately and I'll send you the routine. cheers, Peter Marucci showtimecol@aol.com |
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Magicman0323 Special user Just outside parts unknown. 713 Posts |
You know one of these days I'm going to take my dryer apart and find out exactly where all my socks, magic items, rings, money, and hats went when they entered the dryer only to be reported Missing In Action by the other clothes.
You'll wonder when I'm coming, you'll wonder even more when I'm gone. - Max Malini
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Bengi Veteran user Georgia 309 Posts |
My ex-wife spent my Scotch and Soda on a pack of cigarettes!!
Did I mention she is my EX-wife?!!! Bengi |
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flourish dude Inner circle from ? But I know where I am going! 1195 Posts |
If you are wearing jeans just keep the coins in the key pocket. The pocket on the right hand side above the regular pocket.
Bill
Nothing of the same will bring any change, take action today!
Just taking a step, is a step in the right direction because when you stop working, your dream dies. www.magicalmemories.us |
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piccard New user 26 Posts |
I actually dropped one in with the other change at a toll booth in N.J.
...The Police stopped me 2 miles down the pike to ask me why I threw "Counterfeit money in the machine" ...I explained to them what it was and they laughed and returned it to me... Your right ..keep the gimmicks seperate from the rest |
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JaymesR New user Minnesota 53 Posts |
While I briefly worked at Wal-mart one summer I recieved a folding coin from a shopper. (I didn't find out until I ended my shift, so I couldn't return it) That's the point to which I can trace my interest back to coin magic and coin gimicks.
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clunk_71 New user Burton-on-Trent England 99 Posts |
Why won't this machine take my money???
oooooo It's my coin it's unique? Phew that was close! Only to spend it 10 minutes later! _________________ Thanx Lee " Dogs do tricks "....... leepalmer@orange.net
Best regards, Lee
leepalmer@orange.net Only do what your good at....and then everything you do looks good |
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atkinsod Regular user VA 196 Posts |
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Wow, you mean they actually checked? I'm from NJ and I didn't think they'd bother! Lewis Ganson in Art of Close up talks about prop management and suggests the use of interesting cases and boxes to present your close up magic from. I guess this topic brings up another good reason for this! Doug A. |
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Peter Loughran V.I.P. Ontario, Canada 2683 Posts |
Well, let me tell you! I'm no stranger to lost items!
I used to carry my perfect pen in the sleeve of my bomber jacket (this was our crew jacket with the logo of my show on the back etc.) Well, anyway my special effects technician put my jacket on by mistake instead of his own to go out for a smoke at a hotel we were performing at; he lent someone my perfect pen to write down some directions. Anyway, you know where this is going! Yea, that's right! He forgot to get it back, and what's worse is that because I only show the crew the secret and set up of the big illusions, or only the illusions that they need to know for the show. He couldn't figure out why I was so mad because everytime he saw me perform the trick he was led to believe it truly was an ordinary pen. So some guy out there has got my pen and has no idea what it is or how to use it. IF he discovers the secret he will probably think he just broke the pen and throw it away!
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saglaser Loyal user Champaign, IL 248 Posts |
Peter's story reminds me...
I was at a hotel and my key card stopped working. A few hours after I had it replaced at the desk, the new one went south as . I was getting quite annoyed when... Ummmmm Guess what pen was in my shirt pocket, where I'd been keeping the key car? Suddenly, I realized why my ATM card had gone bad a couple weeks before. |
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funmagic New user Patrick Cordier 29 Posts |
A similar thing happened to me when I placed several magnetised coins in my wallet for 'safe keeping' resulting in the loss of my Credit card and Hotel key card.
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