I am glad you were not injured Bill.

I remember when those commercials dealing with Marshal Brodien selling magic sets use to come on.

I also remember my first mentalism set. I tried performing everything like magic tricks. It got boring to me because I did not astonish the audience.

And the ruffles on the shirts! Powder blue tux with a pink ruffled shirt dark blue velvet trim and cumber bund and the biggest bow tie on earth.

Burn baby burn disco inferno.

I remember one gig back in the early 1970's performing magic at a blue & gold cub scout banquet in a gold-sparkle jacket with black lapels. It was the "in" thing for "modern" dance bands to wear (I wore the jacket in a dance band in which I was playing bass guitar). As a relatively new performing magician, I actually believed the magic ads that said kids loved sucker tricks! So I did 2 or 3 of them in a row. The scouts threw buttered popcorn at me during those effects. (The scout leader and several scouts apologized later that night.) After that, I vowed never to do a "sucker" trick again, because in the end, only the magician is the sucker for buying it. Since then, I have used the "sucker" trick apparatus, but re-routined them into positive self-esteem experiences for the children. I always wanted to form a magician's support group called "M.A.S.T." ("Magicians Against Sucker Tricks") but never found the time. By the way, butter is hard to get off a gold sparkle jacket.