Columnist Karrell Fox
- Two Gems
Two new Gems from Karrell Fox
Get one of the gimmicks sold
by dealers under the name of a "Pill Watch"
(which is nothing more than a hollow pocket
watch that you fill with pills, only this time
DON'T). Get a package of little plastic jewels.
They're sold at the pet counter in your dime
store (they use 'em for fish aquariums. Honest!)
and fill the watch with 'em. Now, take out the
watch remarking "This thing hasn't been running
properly (good spot for watch winder bit), and
I can't understand it cause it's supposed to
be the best 21 jewel model. Maybe I lost some
of 'em, let's check." (Flip open the watch and
dump the "jools" on the table & count 'em).
I even go so far as to remove a small jewelers
eye-piece (loupe) from my pocket and insert
it in my eye for assistance, but you don't have
to go that far - unless you like to hear people
laugh at you.
THE MAGIC MARKER
You're
with me at a party where I've been hired to
work at the various tables during a cocktail
party performing close-up magic. I have just
walked up to a table and said something like,
"Good Evening, my name is Karrell Fox, and I'm
a magician. Your host thought you might enjoy
seeing some minor miracles performed personally
for you, right at your table. May I join you?"
I then sit down and go through a close-up routine.
Let's assume it went well, and I depart from
their table leaving them amazed and, hopefully,
amused.
I then
go to the opposite side of the room and repeat
this entire procedure at another table. when
I'm finished at this table, I go back to the
FIRST TABLE I ORIGINALLY WORKED, and give the
same opening patter lines as above. The people
will look a little confused and probably start
chuckling. Stop, as though you have suddenly
recognized them, and say, "Oh, I've already
performed for you, haven't I? It does get confusing.
Just let me do this so you don't have to sit
through it again". As you say this, you remove
a rubber ink pad and a large rubber stamp. You
ink the stamp and imprint on their table cloth,
a large "X". You then proceed to the next table
you're working. After that you go back to the
second table and mark it as you did table no.
1.
If this
bit is presented in a "tongue-in-cheek" manner,
it will positively get a scream from the onlookers.
I had
the rubber "X" stamp made at a local stationery
store, and I ordered a blank stamp pad, and
a special ink for it that is water-color based.
This is so the "X" will wash out of the tablecloths.
Sometimes the head waiters will ask if it does
wash out, and they will take a dim view of your
humor if you tell them it doesn't.
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