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

"Tom W" <bleemer@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
news:OjEVj.151$ll1.12@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 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

I love P&T.  And, as I've said, nothing about the method of this trick 
requires any previous contact with the gl*****-wearing volunteer.

I was kinda' hoping Penn would tell him to shut up.  In their regular
show, 
I'm sure he would have shushed a chatty volunteer.  But in the Ed they are

on Dave (and Paul's) turf and it would have been bad form to do so.