I woke the morning with my head in the clouds and my feet on the ground. Yes, like most people I enjoy a good stretch before I get up.
As I was brushing my teeth the idea for the character ‘Bob the seedy macgician’ came to me in the form of this sketch: (btw if this makes little sense it’s the first time I’ve tried to write something like this)
Scene: Bob is chatting to a woman, trying to chat her up. Location: Largely unimportant, lets say the middle of an empty field for the possible comic value
Bob: So do you come here often?
Woman: All the time, I love it here.
Bob: I’m a magician you know
Woman: Really?
Bob: Yes
Woman: Wow tell me you secrets
Bob: Well a real magician can’t, but the main secret is misdirection. For example take a look over there points over her shoulder, a direction that would involve her turning so Bob will be completely out of her sight
Woman (still looking at Bob): Well thats not very clever why would I fall for that?
Bob: Just indulge me, you wanted to see how its done after all
Woman (looking unimpressed): Oh Ok
Woman turns round, after a breif look at nothing turns back
Woman: Well thats (just)…
She stops and stares in astonishment as Bob is now sitting in an armchair
Woman: My god thats amazing! How did you do that
Bob (smiles): It’s good that you’re impressed by things appearing as if from nowhere. For my next trick I need you to sit here.
Bob pats his lap and looks up suggestively
So yeah maybe its not so good when it takes that much explaining but it did make me smile around my toothbrush this morning. Maybe without the back story? More like:
Look away.
Bam! A chair
For my next trick…
i would like to apologise for not making any comments recently….here was pete and i saying with conviction that we will message more often etc…and i log onto here and see that you have been upholding your part of the bargin (more blogs and all highly interesting/amusing/worrying in their own ways)but we have not held up to ours…..sorry….:)….so, here it is..ta daaaaa!!!!
…oh, and Bob the seedy magician pretty much sums up every party entertainer i had as a child….and you wonder why i have so many issues!!!
Rob, everytime i see you from now on, i’ll be having mental images of you sat in an armchair saying "come and sit on my lap ladies, i have a wand to show you" in a really creepy way.
Yeah, I knew I was too quick to give up on that Paul Daniels maigc set when I was young… *sigh*
Dudde, that was hilarious 😛 although it did cause everyone in my office to turn round when I laughed hysterically out loud. It defo helped having it in a empty field, I was already laughing by the second line 😀 Edited by Rob, 13.01.2005 – Smilies should now all be good!
Oh yeah, and get smileys working in the comments so my post doesn’t look so stupid 😉
Ok then, just get more working like in the side notes 🙂
I think there is a plugin for wordpress that allows the smilies to be shown for comment editing in a similar way to the way they’re shown in the side notes… I just never bothered to check it out 😛