August 26, 2008

[Spud]

[spud]Here who?[/spud]

Huh?

[rone rivendale]

QotD: Okie, I'm gonna reveal my favorite magic trick. You may have seen such ppl as David Blaine and other amazing magicians such as myself perform this.

The Set Up:
1. Take a deck of cards and pick the one that you want the person to choose when you perform the trick later. For now we'll say the 2 of Diamonds. Put the 2 of Diamonds on top of your deck.
2. You'll need a small peice of anything paper. It doesn't really matter how big it is as long as the mark can write the card they see later on it. The bigger the paper though the longer the end will take.
3. Take a wet bar of soap and draw the number 2 and the letter D on your arm. Make sure you get the exact image, it's difficult because the soap won't show up at this point.

The Trick:
1. Have one of the kids cut the deck. (Now here is how you get your card to still be on top) When he/she cuts it take the half that the 2D is on top of and put it on bottom BUT place the other half crossways on top. Now distract the kids by asking one of the adults for a lighter as you will need one for this trick. Finish the cut while they are distracted by recutting, putting the bottom half back on top thereby putting the 2D back where you need it.
2. Have one of the kids pick up the top card and tell him/her to show it to everyone but do NOT let you see it. (like it matters hehe). Then have the kid write down the card number and suit on the paper and fold it as many times as they wish.
3. Take the lighter and light the paper on fire. Allow it to burn until it's ash (and cooled off, it only takes a few seconds).
4. Take the ash and spread it firmly against your arm where you soaped it earlier.
5. Say something like "I'm starting to see something. Yes, I'm seeing.... the 2 of Diamonds?"
6. Watch their amazed faces!

Personally, I hate when I learn a trick because it takes away the illusion. The best part of magic is watching it. *shrugs*

[Billy's Little Trip]

[spud]Here who?[/spud]

Huh?

Because that seems like something you would say. I realize the quote looking tags confuse things, but it's my inventive lightheartedly way of saying, "this is a typical thing so and so would say".
Ross said "here" instead of "her", so I pulled a Spud on him.

By the way, since we're on the subject of not understanding eachother. What did you mean by the following?:

How did an apostrophe get in there? (checks drawings...nope).

[Spud]

BLT.

I saw what you did. I knew that you were mocking me. What I didn't see was the second "here". You could have made it clearer by not quoting the first one.

As to your question, there is no apostrophe in the plural of Freeman. It is Freemans, i.e., more than one Freeman, just like in the text above the images. There would be an apostrophe if we were talking about the Freeman's Anniversary, which we were, but not in the context in which you used it, "...Congrats to The Freeman's, too". It begs the question; [spud]Freeman's what?[/spud].

[Billy's Little Trip]

BLT.

I saw what you did. I knew that you were mocking me. What I didn't see was the second "here". You could have made it clearer by not quoting the first one.

As to your question, there is no apostrophe in the plural of Freeman. It is Freemans, i.e., more than one Freeman, just like in the text above the images. There would be an apostrophe if we were talking about the Freeman's Anniversary, which we were, but not in the context in which you used it, "...Congrats to The Freeman's, too". It begs the question; [spud]Freeman's what?[/spud].

Ha!
Got it. I hate when I do that. I know the difference, yet still make that mistake.