I’m so tired of card tricks. Yes, I get that they’re easy to hide and switch around because they’re really thin and their backs are all identical. I also am totally over magic ians pretending that they messed up. Is this your card? No, no, ha ha ha, of course not, because this is your card! I’ll bet… no, I won’t bet, because that reminds me too much of poker, which is even more annoying than magicians, but I certainly would not be surprised if they had an idea, but didn’t know for sure, so they contrive ways to reveal each guess in progressively showy fashions to make it seem like everything was building up to that. But building up to what? Oh, hoo-ray, you found a card. I bet you can’t even sneak into building 4 and save Dr. Petrovich with that. I am sick to tears of the Jack of Spades and the Five of Clubs. If I must keep seeing these dumb tricks, surely they can also be done with Monopoly Chance cards or Pokemon cards. Is your card the Won Second Place in a Beauty Contest? No, of course not, because it’s actually WARTORTLE! I could try to convince myself that that the popular variety are Faxanadu cards, but then where’s MATTOCK and WINGBOOTS?
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Me sez:
This comment form being here makes me paranoid. It may have to be destroyed.
Mxy sez:
I remember occasionally thinking of amusing comments while reading this website, and wishing it had one of these boxes. This probably won’t happen again now that I’ve said it out loud, though.
(Yeah, I had to read the post out loud because I can’t preview it…)
Yamamanama sez:
Cards are better when they have monkeys in red jackets directing the antics of men and rats.
Me sez:
Yes, yes, well, while this lasts, don’t ever leave comments out of pity. Not that I mind, but I’ve never been good with the generic responses I’m supposed to follow pity up with.
(and it seems the comments can’t be sensibly thread-nested, either, so)
Cards need to know their place. And that place isn’t one of my places.
De Krant sez:
What I hate are card games. Especially the varieties that require one to strike the cards with one’s hand. I’ve often thought an amusing way to protest this sort of activity would be to strike the cards with one’s foot instead, but electric current-fast reflexes would be required in order to extricate one’s foot from the under-table region, swing it around topside and allow it to drop mightily upon the rectangle in question before the other schmuck who’s actually taking the farce seriously completes the task in a more traditional manner.
Me sez:
It could still cause a reasonable amount of pain if done properly.
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Comedy is nothing more than tragedy deferred…
Eeplivopu sez:
Well, I prefer people to conduct themselves in a sensible manner.
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I couldn’t understand some parts of this article, but it sounds interesting…