We are warming to tattoos and body piercing (other than earrings) but we are having a hard time with deck collectors.
Admittedly we have no place from which to speak on this topic.
People like different things.
We love The Ball and Vase and have bought maybe a hundred in this short shuffle up on the mortal coil from which we will all be called up one day to justify our choices, decisions and purchases. We figure we can defend the first 20 Ball and Vase tricks. We were young, we didn’t know, others were doing it, we were raised by doting parents that would indulge our every whim as long as it had to do with schoolwork or applications to go to another school to do school work. We had thousands of pencils (mechanical and wood), pens a plenty (the name of our first writing instrument internet shoppe.
It failed due to a horrible spate of product liability suits brought allegedly due to springs that were too tight. When you would open the container to refill the pen, the old refill would shoot from the pen body with the force of Titan rocket (first stage). The good news, we sold very few of them and the even better news, we sold even fewer refills. The bad news, enough people bought the pens to narrowly miss horrific physical injuries. No one was injured or claimed to be. We took the pen off the market and went broke. Ironically, we wrote the bankruptcy papers with one of the killer pens.
But let us return to the subject at hand. Card decks.
In our limited and noisy world (tinnitus is a pain and real. We know, we sit next to someone who has it and they complain all day – they never shut up (© Run DMC)) we have two choices of decks with which we will perform – a red Bee deck and a blue Bee deck – both Jumbo Index. That’s it. No others make the cut.
“Hey, Tim,” you ask. “How about that new deck made on USPC stock that has the clown from IT?
Nope.
“What about the ones that have the wacky numbering?
No can do.
“What about your conviction in 1969 on your way to Woodstock?”
Wasn’t me. Wasn’t a conviction. My judgment was practically expunged. Plus I wasn’t born or I was too old at the time. Continue reading “Trying to Like Magic Card Decks”
Cartamundi’s purchase of the U.S. Playing Card Company has rocked the magic world. Although the sale is not scheduled to be final until this summer, it has already set a bright line between the pro-sale and anti-sale forces.