What do you get when mix cheapness, desire, spring flowers, flash paper and a mobile home? Barry Gibbs tells us one possible outcome.
While working at the Magic Fun Wagon I had a local stockbroker who became interested in magic and was using it as an "Ice Breaker" with many of his clients.
One afternoon he stopped by the wagon and said that he wanted to do a really dramatic effect at a meeting and asked if there was a way that he could produce a bouquet of spring flowers from a bowl of fire. I suggested a fire bowl, but he didn't want to invest the money in one.
After talking a while longer he finally settled on buying flash paper and a spring flower bouquet. His thoughts were that if he loaded the flowers in a bowl of some kind, then stretched a large sheet of flash paper over it and secured the paper with a rubber band, he would have a "cheap version" of a fire bowl.
His thinking was that he could nonchalantly drop a hot cigarette ash onto the paper stretched over the bowl, thus igniting the flash paper and releasing the flowers.
I told him that it didn't seem to logical to me, but he insisted that he "thought it would work", so I sold him the flash paper and flowers.
I also cautioned him to be very careful and that he should test the idea in a safe place, before trying it in public.
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