Curry night

26 May 2005

We met at the White Hart for drinks and then onto the Indian restaurant on the high street for dinner. It was election night. Anyone who voted Tory (you know who you are) were keeping quiet.

Chris Nicholls gave away some of his best cabaret secrets. These generally involved putting toilet plungers on people's heads. He gave a few handy tips on this: "it works best with bald people, because you can polish their heads."

At one point Mark Worgan asked Barry to name a card. Mark then revealed the same card to be on the top of the deck. Discussion followed about how this was done. Mark refused to say but theories divided up into 3 camps:

1. it was magic
2. it was a complete fluke and actually he had planned to do something else
3. he is in league with Satan

Mark was keeping schtum but most people agreed it was probably either 2 or 3.

Mark gave a short masterclass on coin magic. He also explained that he and Loki had failed to win the magic competition in Sweden because of some kind of international conspiracy. Also, the people who won it were rubbish.

Stuart magically made a bit of string transform itself into a watch. Beautifully done.

Matt Parr gave a demo of his new found pick-pocketing skills. He made up some nonsense about switching two cards in my hands, then wobbled my hands about for a rather long time and proceeded to nick my watch. Good job there were other people around who could see it, as I suspect Matt might have run off with it otherwise.

Felix

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