Tasteless

Once upon a time, I had an idea for a trick where you would take someone’s ABC gum and restore it to a piece of un-chewed gum. The trick was very cool, and the method workable, but you had to touch someone else’s gum, which is just tasteless, which happens to be the name I gave this trick.

At the time of the creation (2003 ish), I told Jason Montoya the name of the effect without telling him what the effect was. The name inspired the drawing you see to the right. The drawing inspired the following story written back in 2003.

The September 2009 Saga: A lick here and a lick there; you never think it’ll hurt you until one day . . . SLASH!!!! You get a pasteboard paper cut on your tongue.  How many times did your mom tell you not to lick your playing cards?

Well I’ll bet you are wishing you had listened right about now, aren’t you? Live and learn my friend; once you’ve slashed your tongue with a pasteboard, you can’t go back; nothing tastes the same anymore; in fact, you become tasteless . . . I’ve heard . . .  not that I licked my cards and got a cut . . . someone told me . . . er um . . . that is I . . . um . . . heard about it on TV . . . once . . . er . . . the radio . . . I gotta go . . .

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