dgmagic - UK magic blog by magician Dan Gifford

Someone emailed me today to offer me a number plate, one of the more unusual unsolicited email offers that I’ve received.

The plate was WI3ARD, which I suppose you could read as wizard. I said no thanks.

An interesting idea for a magician, although there is nothing else on my car to suggest that’s what I am, apart from the top hat and bunny rabbit on the parcel shelf, so it would be meaningless to most people.

Plus they would probably think what I think when I see a personalised number plate written to almost look like a word… what a **&%^$%!

By the way, the top hat and bunny rabbit was a joke.

At the weekend, I was booked to perform close-up magic at a wedding held in a rather nice country house hotel near Loughborough.

As normal, I went to introduce myself to the hotel wedding coordinator and find out what the plan for the afternoon was. I got as far as “Hi, I’m Dan the magician…” before I was told in no uncertain terms that I was not to perform the “trick where a card ends up on the ceiling…if you do you’ll be charged to clear it up…”

It turned out that a couple of magicians who had been there previously had performed this effect and it then cost the hotel £100 each time to remove the cards and repair the ceiling!

It sounds as though they had performed it using some kind of glue rather than the method using a drawing pin. When I could get a word in I explained that none of the card magic I was performing involved ceilings, glue or damage.
It’s strange how people tend to assume all magicians perform the same tricks. Maybe it’s because a lot do?