your mother dresses you funny!

but hey, anyone with this many hi-rated comments is doing something right.
and an HGttG quote to top it off, no less. serendipitous inquiry, considering my current "Bio:" quote, here.
ok, so, other side of that coin looks like...
pfft. you're a lightweight! i didn't think the TakeOnMe videomock was anything special either, and am not among the 200^, though the tune & original video were very cool for their time.
and every other comment is a -3 at best. if that's your best shot at douchebaggery, you suck at it, and had better stop phoning it in.
so, CH ✔

but this ain't chatsift, so moving on to the viddies we find... carlin! dawkins!
and ricky jay is so cool he can rob a big-money poker game with a water pistol.
but, most importantly? you sifted this.
you're ok in my book. wear that forthcoming gold star with pride. ☺

>> ^Chaucer:
uh. the cards he laid down on the spread deck at the beginning are just laid on top. Very easy to control where the cards go after that.


lets see you do it

Upvote for Ricky Jay!

>> ^Trancecoach:
It's a trick trap!


Sorry, knee-jerk.

>> ^dannym3141:
I could definitely see what he was doing and where the shit was going. I know people are gonna go "lolyeahright" Normally i'm clueless over these things but i can see it in this.


So where does the fruit come from?

Ouch. It's too bad he didn't just crack your pencil instead. You could always get another pencil.

In reply to this comment by T-man:
That's nothing. The other night, some guy cracked my Aces with 72 offsuit.

Man. Even though he's about 40 years too old and 100 pounds too heavy, I still think Ricky Jay would be awesome as Gambit. But then again Ricky Jay could read the phone book to me for two hours and I'd find it enchanting. The man has one of those awesome voices that you can listen to for hours.

Ricky Jay is one of the, if not THE, best card magicians who ever lived.

If you have the DVD of Boogie Nights, there's an out-take showing John C. Reilly doing a magic trick in front of Ricky and it's cracking Ricky up with the improv that Reilly is doing.

http://www.videosift.com/video/Ricky-Jay-Card-Control

He talks about it very briefly in this clip.

Ricky Jay does not use shaped or any other type of trick decks. He's got an exceptional knowledge of the mathematics of shuffling and he's one of the best slight-of-hand magicians around.

If you doubt, watch one of his specials.

It's unfortunately difficult to find decent quality Ricky Jay footage. This is also not his usual persona. He's usually very outgoing, witty and funny. I prefer his usual to this.

I saw a show featuring Ricky Jay a long time ago...he can throw cards that have been clocked at 90mph. He can hit a watermelon across the room with a card with such power that the card penetrates and stick into the rind.