Showing your friends tricks u know

   / Showing your friends tricks u know #21  
I once told a friend, while eating Chinese take-out, that I could read his fortune cookie without opening the wrapper. He went for it. So I crushed the cookie through the wrapper and moved the crumbs till I could read it...
 
   / Showing your friends tricks u know #22  
That was cold ............ I like it.
 
   / Showing your friends tricks u know #23  
Hope these are close enough in spirit to qualify...

I can, as if I were playing drums, tap my feet and hands and nod my head and wink an eye etc. etc. all at different rates, not randomly, but sort of like a binary divide chain where each action is 1/2 as often as the proceeding one. Not easy for non-drummers and a fair percentage of drummers.

In SO CAL with many VHF and UHF repeaters to talk over (ham radio) You frequently ID yourself to other participants with your ham call sign, often with non-standard (usually at least moderately humorous) phonetics.

I used to ask folks if they would like to know my call sign and when they said yes I would say N6 Are You Ready? They would usually say yes, go ahead. I would then either say again, Are You Ready or some variation on the theme, repeated until 87% of the humor was wrung out. My ham call is of course N6AYR (Are You Ready).

At Lowes or the super market or wherever some cashier will say, "I can help you over here, sir", to which I frequently reply, "no thanks, I can make it on my own, without help."

Like the man said, "A mind is a terrible thing to lose."

I also do card tricks. Learned a few from a college room mate who was an aspiring but minor professional magician. He used to really hate it when he would "do" a trick for me and then I would "do" it for him, having deduced the "trick" in one viewing. The upset was added to because those guys pay good bucks to buy some of their material.

Patrick
 
   / Showing your friends tricks u know #24  
<font color=blue>You take a string and tie it in a knot around the cigarette? </font color=blue>

If you take the celophane off of the cigarette pack, and wrap it tightly around the cigarette, you can tie it in a knot without breaking it.

Does anyone know the trick to tying a chicken bone in a knot ?
 
   / Showing your friends tricks u know #25  
Hey Ed,
No telling my secrets! Actually I always used a dollar bill to wrap around the cigarette. Nobody ever thought I could do it and I won a lot of bets.
 
   / Showing your friends tricks u know #26  
<font color=blue>Does anyone know the trick to tying a chicken bone in a knot ?</font color=blue>

Is it to soak in vinegar awhile first? I seem to recall hearing something like that when I was a kid.
 
   / Showing your friends tricks u know #27  
<font color=blue>Is it to soak in vinegar awhile first?</font color=blue>

Yep, you got it Bird. You soak it in vinegar, it will soften up and let you tie it in a knot. It will harden back up a bit when you let it dry.
 
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#28  
Same way to put an egg in a bottle.
 
   / Showing your friends tricks u know #29  
To put a hard boiled egg into a bottle just peel the egg, light a match and drop it into the bottle then put the egg over the opening. As the match burns up all the oxygen it creates a vacuum which will pull the egg through the opening. /w3tcompact/icons/clever.gif

The more fun one is getting that same egg back out (yes, it can be done). /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif
 
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#30  
I thought that was how you put a boat in a bottle.
 

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