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Lybrary.com: It’s Better Than A Buffet!

My Plate – Favorite Vacation Pictures

I have the same feeling I had when I discovered my first Las Vegas Buffet. How can this be? How can they make so many things available to me? How will I decide what to choose?

Logically, as with the buffet at Harrah’s, I picked up as much as I could carry on one plate.

So I had the shrimp next to the prime rib next to the potato au gratin and the Jell-O with mandarin oranges (which I had to pick out of the Jell-O because I hate mandarin oranges but I love lime Jello-O) and it was all next to the corner of the plate holding the horseradish for the prime rib, the cocktail sauce for the shrimp and the whipped cream for the Jell-O.

When I got back to my table, it was a mess or a “m?lange.” It was a mess. The waitress told me that I could go back to the buffet as much as I would like and that there was no need to “be a pig.”

I nodded like I had a clue what she was talking about ? I was too high on the wonderful cocktail sauce/horseradish potato dish I had accidentally prepared.

Lybrary.com is exactly like the Harrah’s buffet.


I Got This In 30 Seconds.

I was searching for information on a card index. I looked everywhere and someone suggested I check Annemann’s index system. Great, I thought, but where will I find Annemann on a second’s notice. There were plenty of sites that sold his Practical Mental Effects text but none could read it to me over the phone.

I am very much an “instant gratification” kind of guy. The microwave is not fast enough for me. I can’t stand refinancing my house because it takes too long so I’m still paying 12.234% interest (but I only have 22 years left). I threw out my Chia Pet because it didn’t sprout fast enough. (But it mutated, grew back and attacked my mail-person. It is now living in Vegas with the mail-person and they have two children: Fern and Daisy).

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April 20th, 2004 | Category: Magic Stories | Leave a comment

Mistakes Is Us! Errors and Omissions

It is the practice of Inside Magic to immediately (within two months) correct any mistake or error or complete fabrication (unless it got us attention). If you believe we have made a mistake or libeled you, please let us know and we?ll do what we need to do to cover ourselves.

In the February 2nd Edition of Inside Magic, we incorrectly announced the birth of a new type of practitioner called ?The Card Magician.? The article proclaimed that these ?Card Magicians? would be able to use decks of playing cards ? even the cheap ones with pictures of kitties eating pasta like you have in your kitchen junk drawer ? and perform miracles.


“Is it in this row?”

One of the tricks we predicted would eventually be developed was an ?Ace Assembly? where the four aces are lost in the deck and they are all found together in a motel room near the airport or on the top of the deck.

We did not, however, predict that your uncle would invent a trick where you endlessly deal seven cards in four neat rows, ask which row contained

your card, and then deal the rows again. We regret the error.

We also note it is so unfair that your uncle did not win FISM with his card trick. We attribute his loss to: 1) his nose hair; 2) his ear hair; 3) his breath; 4) the 20 minute time limit for performance of a single effect (he was still asking the Italian judge, ?which row now?!? when time ran out); 5 his inappropriate reference to the female judges as ?skirts? and the male judges as ?foreigners.? Prejudice is everywhere, even in magic.

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April 20th, 2004 | Category: Magic Stories | Leave a comment