dgmagic - UK magic blog by magician Dan Gifford

I’ve written before about some of the strange enquiries I get.

This time a chap rang and asked if I knew where he could get some doves. That was literally the first thing he said, ‘Hi, do you know where I can get some doves?’

I guess the question is a reasonable one to ask a magician but, it was just the way he asked with no preamble or explanation, like I must know. It made me wonder if I have mistakenly mentioned on my website that I sell doves.

Well, just for the record I’ve checked. I don’t and I’ve never used them.

In the end I told him some magic shops that might be able to help.

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.