Do you believe in magic?

Stage magician David Copperfield (http://www.dcopperfield.com/) apparently guessed the winning numbers to the German Lottery through sealed-document methods with round-the-clock surveilance: http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/2001...ield_dc_1.html

Apparently, being engaged to Claudia Schiffer without engaging her in constant wild acts of making his rabbit disappear down her magic box on a constant basis wasn't enough of a magic trick.

I'm trying to get posting rights to The Amazing Randi (ie. James Randi's) board to ask how the beloved stage performer made the lottery trick possible. There's something about not being able to hand the numbers off to someone interfering with the act of precognition that sticks out like a Bush Cabinet member that isn't in bed with the industries they're meant to regulate. I'd figure if he really had the ability, he'd be sitting with Colin Powell, a GPS locator, and a firmware flash device to program a satellite-guided bunker-buster bomb with "Yo momma, Osama" on it.

(Remember the Dairy Queen Bunker Buster Bar? One bite, and it went straight down to your colon before exploding.)

I figure the answer to the Claudia Schiffer question is as clear as day: Siegfried... Roy... Dave... do ya see it?

[roymeo]

I've got a deck of magic cards and a couple other magic tricks I bought back when the Lindale Mall in Cedar Rapids had a magic store.

(and I feel like I'm going to regret saying this,) but my magic wand broke and all the epoxy glue in the world won't put the magic back in it.

roymeo

[lynnzop[$]]

Thanks File, now I have THAT stupid song in my head.

Lynn
(Going to find a radio that plays something a little less annoying, like Cake.)

[kurt_messick]

I have a box of magic tricks that survived the recent mold attack -- magic decks of cards (one that turns into all aces of Spades; one that turns into all blank cards, etc.), various handkerchief bits, the disappearing-egg-in-a-pouch trick, a disappearing milk in the pitcher trick, etc.

I use these to great delight for youth church, younger crowds, and sometimes adults. I put the things away when I became church treasurer, as it was decided it was best not to let the congregation know that their treasurer was good at sleight of hand...