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

randwill wrote:
> "Bill Kawalec" <billkawalec@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote...
>>
>> so you think Paul was a co-conspirator...
>>
> No, but nothing in the presentation negates that possibility in the 
> audience's mind.  Using the gl***** of a randomly selected audience
member 
> would have been less suspicious.
> 
> Paul may have been a co-conspirator in that he possibly ran through the 
> segment with P&T in rehearsal. That would have been a good time for Penn
to 
> tell him that he didn't have any lines in the bit. 

Whether or not you like Penn & Teller, they are scrupulous in their
ethics. If 
they want to impress their peers in magic, and it's clear over all these
years 
that they do, they are going to have to play by the basic rules which
means no 
previous contact with audience volunteers.

That said, I was wondering if they had rehearsed the trick with Paul which
took 
me out of the trick itself. I think the problem was that he wasn't a good 
participant. I also think that if his incessant talking was affecting the
trick, 
Penn would not have hesitated to tell him to shut up.

Tom W