Funniest Explanation

[kingkid]

I don't post much (I'm a bit of a lurker) but this is a story I just had to share.

So I'm out the other day performing for my girlfriends little brother. He absolutely loved my magic and could not get over it. I had tried about one card trick on him and soon saw that it wasn't going to go over very well. So I thanked myself that I had brought magic that wasn't cards with me (I had borrowed the cards).

I start doing more generic magic, and making it all very visual. I took a TT and did my new favorite pet routine, a silk reproduction and vanish. However before I vanished it I had used it to bring out a nickel. So now I have a nickel. So I start making jokes and vanishing it and pulling it out of all these different places. His ear, my mouth, his stomach, anywhere I can think of.

Eventually I just vanish it, ditch it, and seem at a loss to find it and explain to him that I just must give up. He just stares at me in awe with a smile. Then I got my funniest explanation to date. He points to the rubber band on my wrist and asks me

"Do you hide a shrinking machine under there, and just shrink the nickel? Let me see the shrinking machine!"

And he proceeds to examine my wrist and the rubber band, snapping the rubber band. I laughed as I told him that there was no shrinking machine.

So I see him again this weekend and he asks me

"Will you show my dad the shrinking machine?!"

He pulls out a nickel and continues to plead me to show his dad the shrinking machine nickel. I must say it was hilarious!

So I apologize for the long post but I want to ask, what is your funniest explanation to one of your effects? And who was it from? A little kid? A drunk person? Or someone just completely dazzled my your magical feats?

Hoped you enjoyed the story!
Brendan

 

[WitchDocIsIn]

The most amusing one I can remember didn't happen for me, but for a guy I was watching. A friend of mine put on a magic show about an hour north of here, and it was headlined by Dexter Morgan. My friend gave me and a couple other guys free tickets (they're all broke college students and he's just nice to me), and the other guys were my ride up there. During the show, Dexter does a bit with a bowl of nickels, where he predicts how many nickels a spectator grabs at random out of the bowl (he calls it The Trick Fhat Fooled Einstein). I figured out a method for it, but kept it to myself.

On the ride back, the other guys were trying to figure it out, and one said, "Well, the only way that makes sense to me is that he knows exactly how many nickels are in the bowl. Then he can estimate how many nickels the guy takes out, and then he takes out an appropriate amount for himself and just does the math."

 

[RealityOne]

Brendan:

Great story. Made me think of this. That is one of my son's favorite effects to watch and perform. With a little slight of hand, you can have the spectator count out the nickels at the beginning and then change back the mini nickels to regular nickels.

My best explanation is one that just happened spontaneously. I was at lunch with some relatives in NYC and did a simple vanish of a cap to a water bottle (retention vanish, cover hand with napkin, tap with knife and its gone). I offered to "show" them how it was done. I placed the cap in my hand and as I opened up the napkin (telling them that the secret is distracting them with the napkin) my seven-year old son (completely unrehearsed and without prompting) reached in and grabbed the cap from my hand. His actions were so smooth and the cover so good that it really looked like it could have been done that way.

 

[AlfieWhattamMagic]

I once frenchdropped a needle and pretended to eat it then I told everyone I drank petrol fuel before which makes stuff slide down my neck without hurting me.. i expected everyone to laugh, although they belived me

 

[nIvan]

The most amusing one I can remember didn't happen for me, but for a guy I was watching. A friend of mine put on a magic show about an hour north of here, and it was headlined by Dexter Morgan. My friend gave me and a couple other guys free tickets (they're all broke college students and he's just nice to me), and the other guys were my ride up there. During the show, Dexter does a bit with a bowl of nickels, where he predicts how many nickels a spectator grabs at random out of the bowl (he calls it The Trick Fhat Fooled Einstein). I figured out a method for it, but kept it to myself.

On the ride back, the other guys were trying to figure it out, and one said, "Well, the only way that makes sense to me is that he knows exactly how many nickels are in the bowl. Then he can estimate how many nickels the guy takes out, and then he takes out an appropriate amount for himself and just does the math."

An episode of "Scam School" has this trick and explains it.

 

[praetoritevong]

The most amusing one I can remember didn't happen for me, but for a guy I was watching. A friend of mine put on a magic show about an hour north of here, and it was headlined by Dexter Morgan. My friend gave me and a couple other guys free tickets (they're all broke college students and he's just nice to me), and the other guys were my ride up there. During the show, Dexter does a bit with a bowl of nickels, where he predicts how many nickels a spectator grabs at random out of the bowl (he calls it The Trick Fhat Fooled Einstein). I figured out a method for it, but kept it to myself.

On the ride back, the other guys were trying to figure it out, and one said, "Well, the only way that makes sense to me is that he knows exactly how many nickels are in the bowl. Then he can estimate how many nickels the guy takes out, and then he takes out an appropriate amount for himself and just does the math."

The Trick That Fooled Einstein is a fantastic trick. It's actually rather simple, but the way it's dressed up - it's very hard to get it. It's also published - in Barrie Richardson's Theatre of the Mind.

I loved that story Brendan.

The first thing that comes to mind is my little sister, who, after I was fiddling with a colour change, proceeded to grab the deck of cards, and continuously waved her hand over the top card - and frowned when nothing happened.

 

[Randomwrath]

I have one friend who is slightly obsessed with my deck vanishes. Every time she sees me with cards, she tells me to make them vanish. I don't always oblige, but she's seen it a fair few times now. The closest solution she's managed to find so far is that I show her the deck, hypnotize her, ditch the deck and then wake her up. It does wonders for my reputation

 

[praetoritevong]

I have one friend who is slightly obsessed with my deck vanishes. Every time she sees me with cards, she tells me to make them vanish. I don't always oblige, but she's seen it a fair few times now. The closest solution she's managed to find so far is that I show her the deck, hypnotize her, ditch the deck and then wake her up. It does wonders for my reputation

Now if only you could create a production of a cow... Now that would be something

 

[Randomwrath]

Now if only you could create a production of a cow... Now that would be something

Haha, I shall have to take to having a cow somewhere I can easily palm it...

 

[praetoritevong]

Alternatively, I hear that Michael Ammar can palm himself, so I'm sure a cow won't be any problem.

(Sorry, I couldn't resist a Michael Ammar joke!)

 

[WitchDocIsIn]

The first thing that comes to mind is my little sister, who, after I was fiddling with a colour change, proceeded to grab the deck of cards, and continuously waved her hand over the top card - and frowned when nothing happened.

"Now!"..... "Now!" ...... "Now!"