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nolabear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-04-10 11:37 PM
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What are your best bar tricks?
True confessions time: I was partially raised in a tiny little bar and restaurant, and I learned a bunch of bar tricks at an early age. I can:

Fold dollar bills into interesting origami and to make George Washington change expression when you move the bill
Play a mean game of Spin-the Quarter "marbles"
Tie a cherry stem into a knot with my tongue
Balance one of those bevel-edged salt shakers on its edge on a single grain of salt

There are others but those are my favorites.

Post 'em if you got 'em.
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HEyHEY Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-04-10 11:38 PM
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1. I can shoot an elastic band and have it roll back to me
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TorchTheWitch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-05-10 01:11 AM
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2. fold a bar towell into a rising penis
There's a funny story that goes along with it that you're supposed to tell while doing the folding and get to the punchline just as the towell-penis starts rising and the listeners realize what it is... I can't for the life of me remember the story though - just how to fold the towell to look like a rising penis.

I do some money tricks like the bow tie and some others. Someone showed me how to fold it like a little collared shirt, but I can't remember how... that's one I really want to learn.

I never could stand quarters are their edges or other balancing tricks because where I've worked the bar was either too old and warped or too crowded with much vibrating of the bar with all the thumping going on.

I know some funny tricks with... um... certain body parts, but best I don't go into that here.


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cherokeeprogressive Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-05-10 02:57 AM
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3. I can fold a beer bottle cap backwards, away from the open side. Try it sometime.
Bet you can't.
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old mark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-05-10 04:16 AM
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4. I disappeared from the bars over 22 years ago...they haven't been able
to find me since...


mark
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HopeHoops Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-05-10 08:18 AM
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5. You can also make George look like a mushroom. I like doing the quarters on the elbow catch.
Of course, my under-hand dartboard shot for a double-bull freaks people out as well, but I have to be pretty wasted to have the beer-muscles to pull off the double-bull on the first try.

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applegrove Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-05-10 08:07 PM
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6. Beer games. "fuzzy duck": you say it one after the other as it goes around the table.
Then someone changes direction and everyone says "ducky fuzz". Needless to say their is lots of room for some to mistakenly say "does he ****".
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Sabriel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-05-10 08:19 PM
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7. I can smile at a customer when all I want to do is strangle him.
It's a trick that got me through many a shift.
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