Episode 123 - Get the girls phone number [Discussion]

[marilee]

Cheap Trick to Scam her Phone Number

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[sethur]

"The girl try's the scam on Brian to see if it works"

try's? Seriously? That's not even a greengrocers' apostrophe anymore, it's just not being able to handle verbs.

Yes, I am a gigantic, nitpicking pedant and I signed up solely to point out this mistake.

(It should also be "girl's" or possibly "girls'" in the title and oh god look at what you made me do now)

[masterevilace]

^ Calm down.

Anyways, this was a clever trick. Anytime I see a trick dealing with numbers, I think it's going to be one of those obvious math tricks.

This one is so subtle and easy to do.

[lebensbaum]

This show is way too obnoxious to watch.

[radambomb]

Was this an episode of blind date?
haha nice!

[hellhound]

Originally Posted by sethur

Yes, I am a gigantic, nitpicking pedant and I signed up solely to point out this mistake.

As a magic fan, I also nitpic at many of the vids.. but I guess he's gotta space his "killer" tricks with his "meh" (can be used but arent that great) tricks.

Originally Posted by masterevilace

... Anytime I see a trick dealing with numbers, I think it's going to be one of those obvious math tricks.

Yeah.. He's done many "Math-magician" type tricks. As soon as a guy starts in w/ "multiply/subtract.. yadda yadda" I pass.. I know then that he wont guess my number but is steering me towards a 9 or a 5 etc and will guess that. or if encompassing cards into it... will place a cards 5 or 9 cards deep in the deck.. use math to steer me to that number and then have the mark peel off cards and reveal the card he picked (even if had nothing to do w/ my initial card - misdirection).
NIM.. "keycard" card trick variations, match puzzle tricks, coin slides .. Mathemagics... not so much

oh the handcuff str8-jacket escapes are good info too

[greymatters]

Originally Posted by hellhound

NIM.. "keycard" card trick variations, match puzzle tricks, coin slides .. Mathemagics... not so much

So, you like the Nim variation but don't like mathemagic?

If you narrowly define mathemagic as the "take a number, double it, add 10...etc." type of routines, this might make sense.

However, Nim is mostly math! As a matter of fact, the more you understand about the math, the less you'll have to memorize about the patterns!

I suggest you pick up books by John Conway and/or Martin Gardner before you define what believe mathemagic is and isn't.

[lokified]

Try as I might, over and over again, I couldn't get this trick to work! Curse these confounded modern pens! Even when it worked, it required so big of a glob of chapstick so as to be obvious to an onlooker that the pen is rigged. Despite this giant glob, it still only made a teeny tiny difference to the first half of the first stroke of the pen. Almost impossible to see in a darkened bar room. Also, even when watching the show, my first thought is: "Well, if the pen does write true right away, what's to stop the mark from scribbling on the coaster or paper and then all the numbers look perfect?" (Of course, there'd be a scribble then, but still),

[treats]

This sounds like a cool trick, but I'm having trouble getting it to work as well. How much chapstick do you use? Do you just touch it on there or rub it on?

Does it work better on coasters than it does on post it notes?

[xfuuey]

Originally Posted by sethur

"The girl try's the scam on Brian to see if it works"

try's? Seriously? That's not even a greengrocers' apostrophe anymore, it's just not being able to handle verbs.

Yes, I am a gigantic, nitpicking pedant and I signed up solely to point out this mistake.

(It should also be "girl's" or possibly "girls'" in the title and oh god look at what you made me do now)

may as well finish pointing out the rest of the mistakes too (@4:20 ..you're*)
don't half ass it if you're going to nitpick sethur.

anywho, with how anal people are these days, i wonder how common it'd be for the person to try & retrace over the part of the digit that can't seem to show ink