For Sale By Owner

You may recognize this image from my Stone Cold Magic DVD. It is the graphic used for the effect Little People. However, the original effect that this graphic was created for is called For Sale By Owner. It was an effect that was geared for magicians, and was basically a routine that was a sales pitch as to why you should buy the “Thumb Tip 2000.”

It was a fun and clever routine using a lot of cool ideas that have been around for a while. However, it turned out to be too similar to a routine already in existence, so I never published the routine. However, if we ever meet in person, ask me about it. I’ll be glad to demo the “Thumb Tip 2000.” Meanwhile, enjoy reading the original story that I wrote to go along with this effect:

Once upon a time in a land far from here, there lived a magician. This magician was different; he suffered from a terrible disorder. Try as he would, he could never master the finger palm, or the pinky break or the pointing transfer. The poor soul was cursed; he was all thumbs; the only advantage to this was that he could hold ten thumb breaks at once, but alas, he knew that ten thumbs was eight too many, so he packed up his useless Chinese finger cuffs, burned the finger puppets that he knew he could never use, and planted eight tiny signs, one for each extra thumb. The signs were simple; they read, “For Sale by Owner (Magicians Only).”

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