No. 9, Atlanta, Georgia – Georgia Magic Club
3rd Monday, 7:30 PM, Mt. Vernon Presbyterian Church, Dunwoody,
GA
Ring 9 Phone Number (404) 978-1260 ext. 9588
Nominated for Membership:
Tim Brown
Tommy Jackson
Bryan Lee
New members were announced:
Mike Burkhead
Edward Turner
Jeff Wasley
Richard Rubin
Doyne was celebrated for having his weekly profile in the Linking Ring and lightly teased as well. Mark Hatfield demanded autographs, giving Doyne a taste of the dark side of fame.
Carey Huddleston brought refreshments, which also got him applause. We like refreshments.
Shirt making was discussed. You can bring a shirt in and Bob will have the magic club logo embroidered on it for ten dollars. Everyone bring a shirt next month and we’ll do a bunch of ‘em at once! It’ll be a hoot and a holler!
Everyone should join the newsgroup or feel like a total outsider as we revel in the secret knowledge shared only on the Georgia Magic Club newsgroup.
Well wishes were felt towards Dale Adams and Charlie Pecor.
Charlie Floyd was remembered and missed. We spent a minute remembering him. We told stories about Charlie for a while and wished he was with us. KC Roberts remembered him doing Project Magic and causing much mayhem. Dan Garrett reminded us to Turn the Valve! Bob Stultz remembered him at a
Christmas Party with Charlie doing his show in a walker…Fred Ulrich remembered him doing the torn newspaper and it NEVER worked. Paul Sponaugle said anyone that saw Charlie would never forget it!
John Miller told us about how a torn and restored paper was rigged so it couldn’t fail but somehow it did. Joe Turner saw Charlie at a nursing home and got the third degree … Charlie had a whole stack of newspapers ready to go. It didn’t work…David Smith saw a kid mess with Charlie who had the upper hand until he told the kid he’d give him a dollar if the trick didn’t work…it didn’t work. Bob Stultz saw a cot with a female mannikan on a bed in a negligee with a bottle…Charlie said she laid there drunk ALL the time. Bob also remembered that Charlie was in sales…he said you knew you had a sale when you were in a managers house at seven in the evening doing tricks
for his kids.
We had a moment of silence…punctuated by a torn newpaper.
We had a drawing…we all got excited…Doyne drew… Mike Burkhead yelled in triumph! A second drawing…a guest named Jim was the triumphant winner.
Dan Garrett was awarded the Royal Blue Pen for his victory in the Weakest Linking Ring.
We broke for refreshments. A good time was had by all.
BB
Theme Performers
Patrick Floyd
Was told by someone that he didn’t do enough magic…how wonderful! He’s going on a trip and his wife told him no card tricks…so he just used a empty deck of cards, it’s just the box, not the cards…can’t be his fault if the cards somehow appeared in the box we all saw to be empty…Then he used Yvonne Shelnutt’s brain to do a card trick. We’ll have to warn his wife about this. She DID say no card tricks after all. Fortunately the trick was good…good enough to get him out of trouble? Only the shadow knows!
Sherry Watson
Did something on magic gone rye instead of magic gone awry…so she started making a rye bread sandwich. She started by blindfolding a spectator, Bill Packard…we liked this. Then she got the blindfolded spectator to tell her how to make the sandwich while she followed his instructions EXACTLY. It didn’t go well. Oh my. Did she not take Home Economics? The horror! The horror!
David Oglesby
Started with a problem…peanut butter and jelly all over the table. Stall! Stall! The cleaning completed, he did a newspaper test. Yvonne got volunteered again…she picked a newspaper at random, picked one word at random from the article…and David read her mind. Black letters on white…hmmm….hmmm….then he hit Yvonne’s secret inner mind…no wait, she actually SAID that. Ahem. Then the torn paper pieces restored! Magic! Charlie Floyd would have been proud. It didn’t go quite right. We loved it.
Howie Marmer
Was announced…but wasn’t in the room. Oops. On to Ted Harty!
Ted Harty
Talked about what do to when folks want you to teach them a trick. So he taught us how to cut off ten cards exactly from a deck. He couldn’t do it…his volunteer couldn’t do it…everything looked bleak…more volunteers…will mankind survive? Four volunteers…four sad attempts at cutting ten
cards…then he revealed that the four people had cut to the four tens in the deck! Amazing!
Howie Marmer
was announced…but his name tag kept falling off. On to the cards! He claimed Dan Garrett taught this to him 23 years ago. He was told to stop it. But now he’s back! He’s bad! He’s…dropped the deck. He started doing a prediction, counted right past the selected card…it’s all gone wrong! But
wait…that card…it’s changed to the selected card! I noticed the original card, now on the box, was a jack. I’d like to have heard a jack in the box joke. But that’s just my prediliticn for bad puns. Did you hear the one about the Titanic? The human tragedy? The massive lost cargo? Such as ten thousand jars of Hellman’s Mayonnaise bound for Mexico…the Mexicans were devastated by the lost of their mayonnaise. Devastated as if they has just read Troy Hoosier’s book Devastation. Possible more so. They declared a national day of morning…sinko de mayo.
I’m never gonna get to do another ring report again after that. I can tell. But I’m not sorry. I’d do it again.
General Performers
Christophe Fouquet
Our famous Frenchman came up and I was immediately distracted by his gorgeous closeup mat. I’m easily distracted. BUT somehow a volunteer got up there and counted cards onto that mat. Did I mention how nice the mat was? The spectator counted to a random card…Christophe showed that all
cards were different…then pointed to an envelope that was on the table and took a card out of it that matched the spectators card. I almost forgot about the mat.
Howie Marmer
Had to follow that. He had two decks, one blue and one red. He had a spectator shuffle both decks. Shuffle shuffle the spectator shuffled. He picked a deck from the blue deck…Howie spread the red deck…waved the blue card over the red deck…tension rose…we leaned forward….we laughed at the
amusing byplay coming from Howie. Card moved around….and like magic the two cards were mates! And the blue card matching the red one was in the spectators pocket! And in Ken Scotts pocket! The crowd rose to their feet, matching cards were everywhere!
Ted Harty III
Had to follow that. We were worried. Could he pull it off? Was he man enough? A resounding YES! Go Ted! He borrowed a twenty…folded it up. We watched his origami skills in folding it in half twice. He has mad folding skillz, baby. Then he pulled a one dollar bill out his pocket and folded it. He put both bills into the specatators hand….and pulled out the one dollar bill and put it in his hand. Yet with everything done in the open, the bills switched places! It was like magic!
Lynn Fox then came to announce the theme winner. PATRICK FLOYD! Yay! And there was much rejoicing. Except on the part of the other contestants, who were later seen plotting his overthrow in the corner.
-Evan Reynolds