Re: Fri. 5/9 'Will it Float?' Sorcery

Donz5 wrote:

> On May 10, 4:11 pm, Marcia R.spamlessinlasve...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 wrote:
> > Donz5 wrote:
> > > On May 10, 3:02 pm, Marcia R.spamlessinlasve...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 wrote:
> > > > Crash Bandicoot wrote:
> > > > > Bill Kawalec wrote:
> >
> > > > > >> Eh, I give tonight's Penn & Teller performance ... 1.5
stovepipe hats (out
> > > > > >> of four).
> >
> > > > > > I found it entertaining, yet somehow lacking. Maybe it was
just to short,
> > > > > > although I wouldn't trade a Cobie Smulders appearance for
anything...
> >
> > > > > >> Brady
> >
> > > > > It was disjointed and not very coherent. There was no setup as
to what
> > > > > was about to happen.
> > > > > It also didn't help that Paul was a very talkative assistant...
> > > > > made it hard for Penn to get his schtick out.
> > > > > I still don't understand what the billiard ball had to do with
> > > > > *anything*, but it was impressive that Paul's gl***** somehow
wound up
> > > > > on Teller's face (unless it was a duplicate pair, in which case,
> > > > > not so impressive.)
> >
> > > > There was no reason to think they weren't a duplicate pair, so I
found the whole
> > > > thing to be a huge let down.
> >
> > > > Marcia
> >
> > > That would assume that there had been coordination with Paul (i.e.,
> > > knowing beforehand which gl***** he'd be wearing that hour). I kinda
> > > doubt there had been, since they regularly select non-associated
> > > audience members to participate in tricks such as this.
> >
> > They certainly didn't do anything to let us know they weren't
duplicate gl*****, so I
> > have no reason to think they didn't coordinate with Paul.  I just
didn't think it was
> > a very impressive trick to do on the show.  Maybe it works better in
their show.
> >
> > Marcia
>
> But, again, there's nothing that establishes that there _were_
> duplicate gl*****.

See Randwill's post, who expressed it better than I did.