Anyone ever hear of an effect similar to this?

making you arm shrink? no specific meathod, just in general?

-steve

Ency of impromptu magic, Martin Gardner

Larry White has a stretching arm in a recent issue of the Oracle, just do it in reverse for ashrinking arm. Like the gardner method, totally impromptu.

It used to be an old vaudeville skit- a man walks into a tailor shop to get fitted for a suit. First one arm is longer than the other, then they switch, then both too short, and both too long, then the legs do the same thing. I think the tailor ends up shooting him or beating the heck out of him. You had to be there. Seems to me I saw Red Skeleton doing at least a part of this on TV, or maybe it was Sid Caesar.

Irv Wiener used to open all his college show with this. Stan Laurel did it in an old movie. It is an old vaudeville bit. I still do it with people all the time and have a lot of fun with it.

Richard

OK, Stan Laurel it was! Thanks for jogging my fading memory! The memory goes first, you know....

It's fun after the twisting arm iluusion to have the "twisted arm" shorter than the other, and have to stretch it back to length