is there any good one liner that enable you to get instant ice break/attention?

"would like to see something" is too lame and outdated.
and it has no meaning to your magic.

before performing card effects:" have you ever seen a naked angel on a bicycle?"

Spongeball:"are you feeling hot today?"(produce from spectator)

rubberband:" I've got some rubberbands from a rubber shop."

and i like this one
"some people asked me if you need to go to a special school to learn all these. You need to ditch school to learn these~" by gregwilson

anymore?

Spongeballs: Ladies and gentlemen, I have two big red balls... (pause, then produce).

Sponge Balls: Ladies and gentlemen, I have two big balls - they are warm and have a soft nice feeling ... wanna see them?

Then you bring out a purse frame and produce them one at a time.

After the production ...

Sponge Balls: You can take a look at my balls now, aren't they soft but please don't squeeze them too hard ... its painful you know!

Aik,ok.time for some serious stuff.haha.I prefer starting the way Brad Christian did in his DVD inside magic.He would reach to the womans ear as if he's taking the ear ring off and he would say "Erm,can I have these"...usually they would be like "my ear rings??" till they see sponge balls.I have to say sponge balls suits well for kids party or showing to little kids because these sponges looks cute and if you duplicate them they will be amazed.I prefer non-gimmicked ones because they can be fully examinable after the performance.I also love ending by giving them the little sponges and take one from them and vanish it using the "push in sponge vanish" that was also thought in inside magic DVD.

Card effects:Heres a little thing I find very little bit,strange?Here take on out...

I rarely perform rubberband effects.

Jarrett,

in my opinion, that's taking the joke a little bit too far...some may find it crude, and may you may unintentionally offend some people if you are not careful.

you should keep the jokes subtle and careful not to get outright slapstick.

Just my opinion.

yeah jarrett,

A bit too much :)

Card: I am doing a research on my course work on the unexplainable phenomena happen on a deck of card.

:)

changed!

mentalism: Some people are born different. Some are just gifted. And I'm one of them. (PK effects like make a coin move without touching etc)

cards:
magician: *take out a deck(in a box)* us magicians tend to get very technical...do you know what this is?
spectator: cards?
magician: woah! how did you know what's inside? i was just going to say "box"

you know when people ask "where do you learn all this stuff?"
what do you normally answer?
today i said "it's a natural talent *LOL*"

"I'm not really all that tricky. I mean Moses split the ocean into two, Jesus healed people. And they're like all advance miracle. Well I can only do card tricks since I'm just on Chapter 6."

"My trick is to make people believe that what I do is pure magic."

LOL...this one is funny... B)

haha.I most of the time say I'm gifted.Then they would be like.Ya right.as if.can you levitate like Blaine?.Yes,stand right there(my fave balducci).If not balducci then its king rising levitation.And they would be like ARH!!!Ok I believe you now!

few quotes from cafe

Tell me when to stop... Okay, Take that card, now show t to everyone but me, I've allready seen this trick.


"Wanna see the only magic trick I know?"

chris_stolz-Before my card act I used to pretend I was the guy just setting up for the performer. I would then emerge from a back room and introduce "Chris Stolz". From there I would let the appluase begin before sitting down and saying, "Well, I see that we're all here, let's get started then shall we?"

The opening lines went on to further warn the audience about judging a book by it's cover. "That little old lady isn't always 100% innocent, the winning horse isn't always the fastest, and when you see someone like me sitting at table number five with a rather large chip stack....there's a reason. Ladies and Gentlemen, it's cheating time."

"Ladies and gentlemen, I'm gonna perform some card magic for you today. Would you like to see my big deck or my small deck?"
No matter what they answer, usually they say, "big deck". I unzip my fly and pull out a regular poker sized Bicycle deck. The rest of the lines are up to their imagination. Then I begin the card magic.

(I might pull out a jumbo deck, who knows?) :P

For those who attended our June 3rd 2006 gathering, there were lots and lots of quality 1 liners thrown by Pambudi the other day which I don't think its appropriate to repeat here as they are his lines.

But it sure gives me lots of think about when scripting my own patter.

"Can you read people's minds?....

...well, neither can I."

"So watch me bend this fork/spoon/whatever."

"Dun worry, i dun have pimples on my face"

I often use this when i need to predict their card and need to stare into their eyes.

And it often create a gag.. Maybe not a big ho ha..

my fave line is dunninger's dictum :-


for those who believe, no explanation is necessary, for those who don't, none will suffice - Joseph Dunninger

I interpret it this way, it basically says "either you're a believer or a skeptic. If you a skeptic, I'm not too bothered to try to make you believe" which kind of puts the fault on the skeptic's part if he is not convinced. Which was a smart way of sidestepping the question "How did you do that??"

from now this is part of my msn nickname.. :)

Jeff Gan, who is Joseph Dunninger?

yh

master mentalist

To a heckler who's been heckling:

"I want you to pick the 3 of clubs."

"How the heck should I?"

"Oh wait. I'm the magician here."

*You then reveal the 3 of clubs (or whatever card) in a startling manner. Gets them hecklers all the time.