The Magic Whack

Friday, June 09, 2006

What a terrible idea for a magic trick...

I was looking down the box of sewage that Hank calls "the hot list" and came across this gem...

http://www.hanklee.org/xcart/customer/product.php?productid=8258&cat=&page=6

It's a trick called "Mental Parano". Let's take a peek at the effect description:


A spectator names any card in the deck (for example, the Queen of Clubs). You call attention to a folded piece of paper secured with a rubber band around the deck of cards. It is your prediction.
The selected card is found, removed from the deck and placed face up on the table. The deck is returned to the box and you unfold the note and have the spectator read it aloud: "Your card is the Queen of Clubs!" Amazing!
Comes complete with gimmicked Bicycle Deck and full instructions. Self working, but oh, so powerful.

Now will someone please tell me why, other than because "it's part of the method" would you need to take the cards out and remove the named card? Are your audience that fucking retarded that they don't know what a queen of clubs is? Did you pick a dribbling brain dead wazzo from the audience and you need to double check the card with him? Or is it more likely that the magician is so stupid that when a spectator names a card the magician needs to confirm it by seeing the actual card for himself?

The trick makes no sense. Surely if you show a piece of paper banded to a card box and say "name a card", even if you've not told them it's a prediction they're going to get ahead of you anyway. If you had really predicted the card why fuck about going through the deck and finding the one they name? Surely you'd just whip the piece of paper open, show they you got it right, unzip your pants and wait for them to suck your magic meat stick?

To make matters worse it needs a special deck and it's $45. If you're going to use a special deck to prove you predicted a merely thought of card, save yourself some money and simply buy an invisible deck which will only set you back $10 or so.

MW.

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