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http://stupid-ideas.blogspot.com/2006/07/transparent-desktop-trick.html Found that on the intertubes, and thought I'd give it a go. Here's my attempt, although it's not as good as some of them: Anyone else fancy giving it a try and showing us your attempt? :)

Here is a cool card trick.

By using my brain, I can strengthen the signal on my car's remote control. EFFECT: Standing at a distance of about 10 metre from my car, the signal no the remote control is too weak to open my car. If I push the button, nothing happens. If I however point the remote to my head, hold the...

In researching something, I came across this thread on another forum: The Gypsy Money-Switching Scam I would imagine the trick is nothing new for most here, but I thought it interesting, being a second-hand account of a gypsy woman's sharing the "secret." Part that I found interesting was the...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/23/AR2006092300889.html Seems Steele is trying to confuse voters by circulating bumper stickers that he is a Democrat. Wise choice this political season for a Republican to get voters in a blue state to think he is a Democrat. LOL...

I was in Vegas and went to see Copperfield, mostly because no one else was playing and I have seen Penn and teller twice before. He did a gag where he has a girl that has not seen her father for years, come up and he and her vanish to an island where he picks up sand from the beach and she runs...

As many of you have probably noticed by now, I've got a Doggerel Index, covering a lot of the useless words and arguments woos use. I've got one in particular on the word, "Quantum" that I'm considering updating, or making a sequel to. Maybe something like "Quantum Mechanics Proves [Woo]!" The...

http://www.palmbeachpost.com/localnews/content/local_news/epaper/2006/04/25/0425copperfield.html Of those of you who know how to do this simple pulling-out-the-pockets trick, how many are willing to admit that they've fantasized about using it in just this sort of situation? Or am I just a sad...

I worked it out kind of by accident, but has anyone else have any idea how it works? Scroll down to the next post

Since coming to these boards, I'm reminded of an incident a couple of years ago at boot camp. We had a couple of brothers in our division, and one of them claimed the supernatural ability of levitation. It was known that I am an atheist, so the guy involved offered to show me "proof" of his...

I was visiting a friend that had her grandmother over (she's in her 90's and still pretty sharp). I was told she likes magic, so I brought over Mr.Randi's book "Conjuring" with me. Hazel (the nice older lady) claims she was living in NYCity when Mr.Randi was put in a coffin in a pool and...

I hope this does not qualify as giving away secrets, because I haven't read this anywhere. I'm talking about the one that Uri Geller did waving his arms around the compass and willing it to move. Personally, I'd get one of those small but powerful magnets that are normally used to show off...

Disappearing Lake

I hope someone videoed this. Let's hear your opinions.

http://www.magictricks.co.uk/mindreader/MagicTricksMR How does this work??

Can anyone do the magic egg trick for me at TAM3? I really really want to see this trick, which it seems no one does anymore. I will gladly pay for the eggs, or we can have Larry B. bring some from his chickens. Plus I know it is a mess, so I will help clean it up. thanks

My guess would be creating fire. Not just creating fire, but creating fire when, and where, one wanted. Some people knew how to create fire, and many others did not. To the later, the controlled creation of fire might have been magic.

The laughter never ends. Someone called the other little girl in this one "Buffy the Vampire-Phobe." I find it fitting. Seriously, talk about taking a few steps towards truth and then veering off towards insanity. Halloween was a pagan holiday. Easter parallels plenty of the old pagan...

A magic trick, something simple, that can be done with no props, except of course the scarf or cards, but there are no magic shops in all of Canberra as far as I can find. I want to learn a nice simple party trick like making a hanky disappear, can this be done without a certain digit prop? Any...

I like to pick up older books at the library. One I got recently, was "Confessions of a Ghost Hunter" by Harry Price There is a chapter about the "Indian Rope Trick". I enjoyed reading about this trick in Mr.Randi's book. He tells of seeing a performance of this trick in England, and I...

As some of you may know, I am an artist and designer (and teacher to pay the bills). I need some nice line drawings of magic tricks, I'm especially interested in vintage simple line type drawings of card tricks (hands with cards). I'm really not interested in the trick! I just need the...

Good day. Rustypouch showed me a couple of magic tricks the other day, and I thought they were neat. I would like to learn some card tricks and some slight of hand stuff. Are there any good books out there for that kind of thing? I'm looking for tricks with a deck of cards, and making coins...

The Hindu Rope Trick Science has never been able to explain the remarkable feat of "white magic" know as the Hindu rope trick. Since the time of Marco Polo Western travelers have marveled at this uncanny and inexplicable performance. There are many variations, but the trick in ins complete and...

So much of magic is presentation. The mechanics or "secret" is often a minor thing in comparison to the presentation. This hit home for me last weekend, when I performed a card trick for a friend and his son (a really smart young man who will soon enter his final year of high school). They...

It's been a while since last I played the 75 cent trick. I saw an opportunity this afternoon at a local store. My tab came to $14.81. I gave the cashier $20.06 and watched him as he glanced down at the cash, back up to the register display and back again to the cash. "Finally, he said, "I said...

I assume that most people are aware of the practical joke in which you put a sleeping person's hand in warm water. In case you don't, this causes the person to urinate in his sleep. I have friends who have played this joke and it appears to work. How? What connection is there between a warm...