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Thanksgiving is finished for another year in the U.S. We had a wonderful time doing all of the traditional Thanksgiving magic for our friends.

Who tires of the classic tricks like: Cups and Giblets, Vanishing Turkey Butt, Turkey Butt Behind the Greasy Ear, The Gravy Lota Bowl, Stuffing to Taters (with Raven Stuffing Gimmick), or our traditional closer, Six-Piece Turkey Roulette.

We can no longer perform the Six-Piece Turkey Roulette without the government-required warnings for fear that kids will try to use their “psychic powers” to discern which of the six pieces of left over white meat is free of salmonella.

We always play it up, though, and the kids love to sit and watch us after we eat our selection. It takes up to two hours for the toxic effects of stale turkey meat to take a hold on the central nervous system and digestive tract. Therefore, the kids love to crowd around us and count down the time.

Around one hour and fifty minutes we make our eyes roll back in our head and with the help of well-placed gravy, cause great excitement for all.

It is a shame more countries do not celebrate Thanksgiving and that; consequently, foreign magicians do not crowd their local magic stores in the weeks leading up to the special day. We heard it is becoming a bigger day for magic retailers than Halloween.

Norm Nielsen has a whole line of rubber animal parts in the works. We know that Lance Burton has a version of his Magic Show in a Box product with just Thanksgiving effects. (He has left out the Salmonella Roulette because of the FDA restrictions on “[t]he Interstate transport of publications or devices to be used in the reckless consumption of foodstuffs.” 21 USC 1052(a) et. sec.

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The Needle Hurt More

Thanksgiving is finished for another year in the U.S. We had a wonderful time doing all of the traditional Thanksgiving magic for our friends.

Around one hour and fifty minutes we make our eyes roll back in our head and with the help of well-placed gravy, cause great excitement for all.

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Later this week, we will have a review of Tim Ellis and Sue-Anne Webster’s Ellis in Wonderland DVD set. Because we care about you deeply, we tried every trick shown on the DVD.

Because we are male by nature and nurture, we did not think we needed to see the explanation of the methods before we began. Because we are well insured, we are able now to move what remains of our tongue-stump following our presentation of Mr. Ellis’ incredible Amazing Blades, the swallowing of five real double-sided razor blades.

There are those who would suggest the loss of our ability ever again to pronounce words containing the diphthong “th” was not worth it. We disagree. But more about the incredible DVD later this week.

(Actually, we thought diphthong was a dirty word until the doctor explained it to us during the several hours of speech therapy this weekend. Still, it sounds dirty so it still makes us giggle.)