You know you're a card artist when...

[richard]

... you actually frame cards on your wall.
... "Jerry" doesn't make you think of Seinfeld.
... "Devo" doesn't make you think of "Whip It" (De'Whip?).
... "Trilogy" doesn't make you think of Star Wars, The Matrix, or Lord of the Rings.
... there are 5 different names used for your hobby (although one is obviously more appropriate ;))
... ordering studs online doesn't raise an eyebrow (save 5% if you order 3!)
... automatically throw out the jokers of your friend's deck by accident (don't forget those box tabs).
... your card tricks are named after animals.
... you can't stop playing with your "deck," even in public.

Okay so maybe I'm not the greatest at making these... what do you got? :)

[conjure_pitch]

You find yourself charlier cutting two boxes of tic tacs.

[drorange]

You find yourself charlier cutting two boxes of tic tacs.

lol i have so done that!!!!

when you do charlier cuts without thinking

[Simon]

lol i have so done that!!!!

when you do charlier cuts without thinking

i did a charlier cut on 6 moist towelettes from KFC

[Scape Goat]

-You put anything resembling the size or shape of a playing card in tenki without even noticing.

-You can perform a Monte routine with sugar packets.

-People wont play cards with you even though you suck at poker.

-If you cut imaginary decks while you are sleeping. Seriously, ask my ex. She hated it when, even while I was sleeping, my hands were performing charliers on decks of cards that weren't there. It would wake her up and she couldnt go back to sleep...whatever, I slept great.

-When you watch movies, you don't eat popcorn, you perform charliers. The only way to watch a movie.

-If you are playing with a deck as you read this post.

Alright, I think thats it for now. I just got off a 12 hour shift so I think I am going to lie down. I will post more if they pop in my mind and I HAVE to share them with you. Great thread OP, gave me a good needed laugh.

-Craig

[Twozwozer]

-You put anything resembling the size or shape of a playing card in tenki without even noticing.

-You can perform a Monte routine with sugar packets.

-People wont play cards with you even though you suck at poker.

-If you cut imaginary decks while you are sleeping. Seriously, ask my ex. She hated it when, even while I was sleeping, my hands were performing charliers on decks of cards that weren't there. It would wake her up and she couldnt go back to sleep...whatever, I slept great.

-When you watch movies, you don't eat popcorn, you perform charliers. The only way to watch a movie.

-If you are playing with a deck as you read this post.

Alright, I think thats it for now. I just got off a 12 hour shift so I think I am going to lie down. I will post more if they pop in my mind and I HAVE to share them with you. Great thread OP, gave me a good needed laugh.

-Craig

Lol, I was, I just cant help it :D

Cheers, Tom

[Jonas]

When you do card flourishes.

[Barnzee]

...when decknique is your favourite site :P
... when you spend entire days perfecting a flourish
... when you have more boxes of cards than you do friends
... when your toilet routine involves cardistry
...when people start to notice that you cant leave cards alone, and comment on it.

[Dizzi]

When. even when your cards arn't out, people know you have them

When your principal hasn't banned cards form the school basically because of you and your awesomeness

When you think of tigers, vipers, or ghosts, cards pop into your head.

[richard]

Hahaha awesome guys, keep it up.

[Dizzi]

You have a drawer full of coloured, bent, warped and prettymuch worthless paper that you would NEVER throw out. (Dupes etc)

When people say 'trick' you want to correct them and say 'effect'

[silent]

-
-If you are playing with a deck as you read this post.

-Craig

Holy crap, how did you know?!? haha.

[zackzgb]

When you hold a pack of gum in mechanics grip .

[rgoer20]

- when you get hot, so you do a beautiful fan and actually use it to fan yourself.
- when your pissed at your friend, so you throw a card at him( and it hits him)
- when you spin your credit card on your finger before you give it to the cashier

[JackOSpadesNik]

HAaha. Great thread, I do almost all of these things.

When you spend your time in any general store or Wal-mart staring at the cards section.

When you get nervous and start shaking when you don't have a deck of cards in your hand.

When bicycle no longer mean a transportation device on 2 wheels to you.

When you replace your hand-held gaming device with a deck of cards on long trips.

Telling random people, "don't buy that brand, it's plastic coated, buy these instead (holding bicycles)."


Using cards to floss your teeth. (C'mon, at least someone here has done it)

Thinking of Dai Vernon everytime someone says professor.

Thinking of the Bucks everytime someone says System.

That's all I got. Great idea by the way.

[Dizzi]

When you're willing to pay five buck for a deck of normal bikes every week because they're EXPENSIVE where you live.

When you use cards as bookmarks.

When you're accused of eating cards because you keep a corner in your mouth while reading because it's a bookmark, it gets soggy so you rip it off.

[David.Blanch]

When you do card flourishes.
You are so boring!

.... when you have Decknique cussions in your favorit chair.

[Fergus O']

when you pass by a general store, and see the 99 cent cards they have, and grunt and say "cheap pieces of crap".

while your mates are discussing the latest tv show, or game out, you ask if they have seen the gaurdian design, or what they think of tectonic verb.

you have the 3c or decknique or dananddave as your homepage.

i'll think up some more later

[shadowz01]

When your mom gets frustrated

When your friends try to do what you do with cards and fail miserably, ha ha ha

[AceOfSpades2662]

- when you get hot, so you do a beautiful fan and actually use it to fan yourself.
- when your pissed at your friend, so you throw a card at him( and it hits him)
- when you spin your credit card on your finger before you give it to the cashier.

Haha, I do all of those but my friends start to get mad at me because it hurts them, haha.

[conjure_pitch]

- when you get hot, so you do a beautiful fan and actually use it to fan yourself.
- when your pissed at your friend, so you throw a card at him( and it hits him)
- when you spin your credit card on your finger before you give it to the cashier

Actually, I work in retail, so the Credit Card thing happens every time I give a customer their card back. I know the pivot points on Visa, Master Card, and most local debit cards at this point

[Scape Goat]

When people say 'trick' you want to correct them and say 'effect'

Illusions Michael! Tricks are what whores do for money.

[Glenn West]

The word's 'stripper', 'nudist', and 'stacked' make you think of cards.

Also, isn't there already a thread like this one?

[Phreak]

When you find yourself in line at the bank practicing puting your credit card into Tenkai and checking your angles on the security monitors.


And if you haven't done it before, $5 says you will now!

[APassivePoke]

I did the credit card spinning thing myself today.

-When the phrase "Mary Jane" makes you think of a cut and not some other alternative activity.

[The Dark Angel]

-When your girlfriend knows what that bulge in your pant leg is.
-You've laughed and said "Yep" to most of these.
-You rush to the gaming section of Wal-Mart even though you know that they have the same cards as the day before.
-Everytime you pass by Hallmark you mutter "They aren't a REAL card shop."
-Opening a new deck of cards is like Christmas all over again for you.
-You do an Elmsley count with your ticket stubs from the movies.
-Everytime somebody has a deck of cards, you can't help but feel giddy.
-You have dreams about your ultimate card trick.
-If it was a choice between death and never being able to handle cards again, you'd pick death.
-Whenever you watch a bunch of Brit's go on a fox hunt and they yell "Tally Ho!" you look around for your deck of Tally Ho's.

[Avancer]

I don't have any, but the other day a girl asked me if the bulge in my pants was an iPod...I just responded with a no....

felt like sharing that :)

[JackOSpadesNik]

I forgot about the movie stub elmsley count thing. I soooo do that everytime. My sister looks like me like I'm a freak saying why the hell are you playing with movie tickets.

[UnholyGodn]

-When you empty all the membership cards out of your wallet and see how many moves are possible.

[DaveTang]

-When the sound of cards shuffling makes you turn your head so fast you get a crick in your neck
-When your heart actually speeds up when you see someone else with cards, even if its just poker.
-When you have to resist snickering when people proudly do a sloppy rifle shuffle and the ever-popular bridge
-When you gather crowds by playing idly with a deck
-When you discover decks in places you didn't realize you went
-When you find stacks of cards thicker than 3 decks in your bedroom when you clean it.
-When you find yourself flipping, twirling and spinning every small and medium sized object.

[JCwebs09]

-when someone asks you to borrow your cards to play a game you say no every time (no matter the condition of the cards)
-if it takes you 30 minutes to get ready (and your not a ) (street magic magazine)
-(another street magic magazine) every time you move someone thinks you are going to do a trick
- if everyone thinks you can make anything disappear (ugh. so annoying after awhile)
-if you practice back palm with anything small and flexible (or not! lol)
-if you try to do the cobra cut with potato chips (really hard by the way)
-if it is hard to pick going out on a hot date or sitting at home watching parts of the trilogy again (not me i just think someone has or might)
-if for some reason some one has a coin it has to be rolling between your fingers.
-if you hand hurts right now just from doing the muscle pass so many times (still practicing!)
-if you can put almost anything (yes anything) into flip back. (and yes that is a challenge)

well that is all i can think of
these are so funny (and true)

[UnholyGodn]

- You start dressing differently just for more pocket space
- You buy a pack of Jerrys Nuggets
- You post in a thread about Knowing You're a Card Artist
- You have playing cards strewn across the floor always
- People tell you that you spend too much money or time with cards
- You know what a "Brick" of cards is
- You have more than 3 decks of cards
- You complain that a deck is clumping because it's been open before
- You refuse to play card games with Bridge or Plastic cards because they don't fan right
- You can't actually cut the deck normally anymore
- You get told off for sybiling the cards while people are betting
- You miss deadlines because you had to get that little thing just right
- You can't pick up a card without doing The Jones Change Card Twirl.
- You write peoples Birthday Cards on old worn out cards, never the aces.

[Johan S.]

I see myslef in alot of thees:D

- When your frineds dont let you shuffel the deck anymore at you weekly poker game.
- When your friends intreduce you to a new friend not by your name but "do a trick, watch this"


Thats all i have.

[LingNemesis]

Wheee! We are all weirdos. =D

[Sharog]

When your friends ask you first when they lost something
When someone borrows your cards for inspection you simply grab another deck out of your pocket
When your knuckles darken not because of hard physical labor/sport
When the first thing your friends do after meeting ou is googling for card/magic related terms
When the professor asks you to turn in your cards during the course you perform panic.
When you unconsciously always try to square things up
When the weight of your pants triples up
When you try to warm your hands up by doing DB^2 training tip.

Aya, we are odd.

[Doeman]

When you do sybil and leno with credit cards because theres no deck near by....it's fun try it!

[Phreak]

When you do sybil and leno with credit cards because theres no deck near by....it's fun try it!

When you never have to make this statement...

[Mr.J]

When you wake up in the morning and pick up cards after having dreams about playing cards.
When you think about the possibilities of having six fingers on each hand!

[The Dark Angel]

When you laugh because you get each and every single one of these jokes.
When you get a friend and the two of you dress up as the Buck Twins for Halloween.

[btaylor]

When you get in trouble at school because the janitors can't decide how to get the card off of the 50 foot ceiling
When you start to tell people about how many cards you have, how many are opened and how many are closed. and then start to name the colours of them.

[drorange]

Illusions Michael! Tricks are what whores do for money.
lol from Arrested development!!

[-Ty]

-When you empty all the membership cards out of your wallet and see how many moves are possible.

That one hit home... aha!

- when "the twins" become dan and dave

Ty

[cmeister]

buying cards almost everyday without noticing it..
sleeping with your deck beside you...like your wife..hahaha

[drorange]

buying cards almost evryday w/o noticing it..
sleeping w/ your deck beside you...like your wife..hahaha
lol i so do that fall asleep will practicing

[UnholyGodn]

When you start to tell people about how many cards you have, how many are opened and how many are closed. and then start to name the colours of them.

Wow... I've done that... more than once... I'M TURNING INTO A MONSTER!!

[APassivePoke]

when your girlfriend sees your cards out and says "oh nevermind I'll come back later" because she KNOWS you're busy

[thehumanbomb]

When, while you're playing poker, your friends take the opportunity to use the bathroom, get a drink, etc. when it's your turn to shuffle.

When you have to take out your license, library card, etc., and have an uncontrollable urge to make it vanish.

When you critique your friend's deck of cards unlike anyone has ever done before.

[The Dark Angel]

When you start to refer to your cards as "My children..."

When the only women in your life are the 4 Queens.

[Jeff]

You will feel excited whenever your hold your deck and play with it nonstop until you feel tired. After recharge for sometime, you might ready to go again. At least that’s how I play my deck.

[The Dark Angel]

Whenever you throw away a deck of cards you stop and have a moment of silence for them.

When you bend a card un-repairably right after you open the deck you look up to the heavens and shout "NOOOOOOO!!!!!!!"

Coin guys think they're all tough cause they can manipulate 1 or 2 or 3 coins. Try manipulating 52 cards at once, without flashing. (No offense to coin guys)

[JackOSpadesNik]

When your Dad gets pissed when your holding a deck of cards because you have them on you ALL THE TIME.

Whenever someone says Jerry or Nugget you get excited.

When ou start explaining to your friends who Dai Vernon, and telling your sister who Dan and Dave Buck are without realizing they don't care.

When you forget Mercury is even a planet. I'm still not sure.

When you start to riffle shuffle and false shuffle index cards.

[Chumi]

when you actually think of good things to post in this thread XD

[The Dark Angel]

When you've seriously getting a tattoo that somehow involves playing cards into the design.

[Great Scott!]

When you dont have a girlfriend. :D

[drorange]

When you dont have a girlfriend. :D
speak for yourself :D

[The Dark Angel]

Whenever somebody mentions "The King of Queens" you wonder what that would look like as a playing card, and if it would be gimmicked or not.

[btaylor]

When you get bored at work so you start to practice card moves with business cards, and you HAVE to have 52 or it feels like you are cheating.

[drorange]

when you pick up a deck and can tell a cards missing

[cardangel]

when your teacher asks for your deck of cards during class...they disappear somehow...

cards are actually considered weapons at your school because you throw them so much

all authoritative figures look to blame you first whenever there are cards on the ground

you have cards in your hand, pocket, backpack, table, floor, and your girlfriends purse all at the same time

when you do tg murphys deck flip with your cell phone

when your hand is bigger than someone elses...not necessarily because it actually is, but because your fingers can stretch abnormally far

when your ripped at least from your elbow down

[Dex]

- If someone has a coin in their hands it will suddently end up rolling down your fingers for no real reason.

- During your holidays in Germany you were looking nervously at the hands of every male person you saw... Sometimes female because ... Who knows ....

- You hate playing poker because when you win everybody says that you cheated, and when you lose every body laughs at you because you actually aren't that good with cards.

- All of your sponges at home are round and mostly red (Only for magicians this one.)

- You can't remember the last time that you left home without a deck of cards... Was there such a time ?

- You consider normal objects as "Ordinairy"

- You're the only person who can have loads of fun with a blank deck

- You have 59 replies to the question "Whow'd you do that ?"

- Paying 50 dollars for a deck of jerrys is almost a dream

- All your friends call you when there are cards on tv.

- When most people think of the meaning of life, you're thinking whether keeping the jokers is such a good idea or not.



I might have more later.

[richard]

I don't get the ordinary one?

[Vinnie C.]

I don't get the ordinary one?

He's probably referring to the fact that when some magicians are doing a trick they refer to a common object as an "ordinary" object. "I have this ordinary half dollar".

-Vince

[richard]

He's probably referring to the fact that when some magicians are doing a trick they refer to a common object as an "ordinary" object. "I have this ordinary half dollar".

-VinceBah... this isn't "you know you're a magician when..."

[Dex]

Yeah sorry, I did go over the limit of cardistry.

Oh and yeah, in French when we want to emphesize the fact that an object is normal, we call it "ordinary" (ordinaire)
Guess it didn't work all that well here ...

[Rick Genii]

When your goal in life is to see De'Vos face

When people start to call 911 when you're wearing your De'Vo cloak, walking around the neighborhood with a knife and a deck of cards
(no offense meant towards De'Vo)

[cbols23]

-You put anything resembling the size or shape of a playing card in tenki without even noticing.
-Craig

guilty of that:(

[stickyfinger]

When you care about your most frequented forum selling up.

Peace

Sticky

[Dex]

- When you have more decks of cards in your room than in a casino.
- When you've spent more than two hours trying to catch a card in your mouth with hot shot / boomerang / Snap'd cut.
- When you wash your hands 3 to 5 times more than a regular person
- You make more passes with a deck of cards than with a girl
- You spine tingles when you see a normal person do a riffle shuffle and that everybody goes "Whoa, not baaad"
- Even if you have huge hands, they are always to small
- Every time you listen to a song you imagine a cardistry video with it
- You're still going on Decknique.net 5 time a day even though it's not uptated very much anymore

[Matizu]

-when you buy 100 cards from costco and fill a bathtub with it and jump in (done it today).

-when you print your own cards

- when every gimmick you make evolves a card

- when you dont go to work and stay home and play with cards

- when you eat with cards in front of you

-you stop posting to play with ca-

[Angathorion]

Somebody mentioned something about not cutting the deck normally anymore.

How in the world do you cut a deck normally?

I forgot :(

[Dex]

Can a swing cut be considered normal ?



On second thought, it wouldn't be on XB if that were the case.

[Angathorion]

I presume setting the deck down on the table, then picking up half of it and setting it aside, following this up with placing the bottom packet atop it, would be considered a normal cut. Lol.

[Dex]

I presume setting the deck down on the table, then picking up half of it and setting it aside, following this up with placing the bottom packet atop it, would be considered a normal cut. Lol.

The real world is so lame :rolleyes:

[cardmstr]

... when you have more boxes of cards than you do friends

hahahaha I know isn't it depressing? LMAO

-You put anything resembling the size or shape of a playing card in tenki without even noticing.

-You can perform a Monte routine with sugar packets.

-People wont play cards with you even though you suck at poker.

and i am a victim of all three of these. haha

this is fun. i should think of some. woo!

[The Dark Angel]

When you keep the ad from E orders that displays all their cards and you hang it up like a poster.

You wonder what coin magic would look like if you were to do it all with cards instead.

Someone asks for your card, and you pull 52 out and have them pick one.

[cardmstr]

when all relatives or friends know that a deck of cards as a gift will always make you happy.

when family gives you money to buy your magic dvds for your birthday because you won't give them the sites.

when any computer you touch instantly has a card related background image

your cell phone has a card background

you bought a cheap gunsafe...but not for guns.

you find yourself manipulating anything and everything when you're bored.

being told to leave your cards home is the worst thing you can ever be told. and often results in tears.

even after being told to leave your cards home you find a way to sneak them along

homework takes twice as long because you get sudden urges to do AT LEAST a charlier (which then ends up being a J5, a couple Sybils, and maybe a Madonna before you start homework again)

you own more magic DVDs then your family owns cinematic DVDs

when told to put your cards away you immediately start doing D&D/Greg Irwin hand excersizes

anything rectangular automatically goes into mechanics grip

anytime someone says "let me show you a trick" and starts dealing cards into 3 rows of 7 you can't help but chuckle.

the best smell in the world is a brand new deck of cards.

[Balázs]

Hilarious topic, guys! I have some more:

-when your friends go near your cards, you stand between them and the cards
-you need three things to watch a movie: drink, food, cards. But most importantly cards.
-you have seen "Rounders" and "Shade" at least five times each
-you find yourself searching for hours for one particular song on the net because that's the song you want in your new video
-your excercise book is full of card-related pictures
-your friends hate you when you mention the word "cards"
-if you send a youtube link to a friend, they 99% sure it's a trick or a flourish video
-if you meet one of your old teacher/friend/relative who you haven't met ages ago, they second question is "I've seen you on youtube. How the hell did you do that??"
-your wallpaper/msn pic/cell phone wallpaper/ringtone/default myspace picture is related to cards in some way
-you can't resist doing TG deck flips with a pack of cigarettes
-you show your friends the different grips using the same pack of cigarettes five minutes later (and they do not care)
-when you're practising and hear your parents coming, you hide the cards to prevent any possible fighting
-you are more than upset by a youtube comment like "lmao video editing"
-you are willing to travel more than 200 km's to buy cards (I've done that)
-even though your friends do not care at all about cards, they know exactly who Jordan Lapping is

[phore]

-even though your friends do not care at all about cards, they know exactly who Jordan Lapping is

Alot of this stuff is true :)

If I watch a movie on my one, I get something to drink, a pack of cards and maybe later I'll have a snack, because I don't want no salt or anything on my cards.

I pirouette my cellphone, flourish my credit card into the machine, backpalm my other cards, do packet cuts with about everything :P

awesome.

2 new ones:

- If you have at least one poker card in your wallet
- You've spent hundred's of dollar's on cards.. (is that a good thing?)

[Dex]

- When you keep the jokers and advertising cards, but don't know why.

- When you say "sorry..." before every mercury.

- When people you don't know from you school come up to you with a card in their hands and say "Here, I found it in class 206"

- When there are at least two cards stuck to the ceilings of your school (A five of diamonds and a king of hearts for me)

- When the only fact of failing the genesis part of a perfect jackson 5 does actually make you think of suicide

- When you know a least 7 ways of changing a card to another, but only ever use one or two

- When people gasp in front of a charlier cut you can't help but to say "Impressing... You haven't seen anything yet..." And start laughing eavily...

[Blackjack]

When a space in your pocket for a deck of cards is more important than a space for your wallet

[Theaman]

-When you have at least 10 cards with girls phone numbers.
-When you constantly force your favorite card for every trick.(mine is 4Of Hearts)
-When you know more effects than you do people.
-When you backpalm someones business card on instinct.
-When you can relate to most of the things on this thread.

[Sean_Raf]

- When you race your magic friend to the bottom of the deck with Running Swing cuts.

-When you race your magic friend in a dribble contest.

>_> I so haven't just done that.

- Sean

[Sean [that's heavy...]]

-When you have at least 10 cards with girls phone numbers.

you've clearly never met Erik...

x

[Glenn West]

When your X-mas stocking ALWAYS contains cards.

[Jordan Garret]

When you find cards in your washing machine, Medicine cabinet and they are scattered about in your house/car/place of work

[UnholyGodn]

-You start to Sybil Coasters at the Pub *guilty* :(

[jvo3]

when your bored and have no cards around take out your wallet and use your mastercards/ credit cards to flourish:P

[kaotix]

when you spend half an hour reading this thread when you was gonna go bed because of lack of sleeping from playing with cards at night befor uni......dum de dee

when you ask someone to pick a card and you hear "i know this trick :D" ....little do they no...


when your still up replying to the thread you said you'd stop reading


when you anxiously check the morning post incase a deck of cards has arrived...


when you say to yourself "its ok....i wont get arthritus.....my hands are fine:D" after all day training with cards...

[harapanong]

When you start asking your buddy in magic/flourishing to try pick out one card from a card spring (think Virtuoso video)

- harapan. magic!

[Guardian18]

- When you tenkai palm a poptart. :p
- You sigh when the nuggets are chicken nuggets, not jerry's or golden nuggets.
- When only one of the 5 decks you carry around can be used for a card game.
- When people say Madonna you think of the cut not the singer.
- If you make a religon called Dan&Dave.



That's all I could think of.

[The Dark Angel]

You get deeply offeneded when anybody touches your "special" cards. (Guardians, or Black Tigers, or decks with a setup in them)

[Allan Hagen]

You get deeply offeneded when anybody touches your "special" cards. (Guardians, or Black Tigers, or decks with a setup in them)
Man, totally. I had a deck of Jerry's sitting out in the open at FISM, for like 5 minutes. Then this random guy comes along picking them up, and I pretty much overreact, start going "HEY HEY HEY, PUT THEM DOWN!"

I kinda have a point in that, though, people, (esp. magicians) shouldn't just pick up someone's cards without asking who the deck belongs to, and if one can use it.
Oh well. I overreacted at the time, I guess. Now, I don't really give a damn about rare cards, etc. I even gave away a pack of Jerrys to a magic buddy, because he wanted one. =/
Doesn't mean anyone else gets one though. Oh well.

Now, give me a brick of Tallys and shut up.
On that note,

-when a brick isn't just a rectangular building stone used to construct buildings.

Allan.

[The Magician Cool]

-when your mouse icon is a card with the ace of spades on it
-during school, you constantly catch yourself trying to do a card spin with your eraser

[UnholyGodn]

-When Worms, Echos, Madonna, Mary Jane, Ferraris, Spiders, Jackson 5, and god knows how many other normal words just aren't normal anymore.
-When you get confused by a normal sentance because your brain loses its normal link with above mentioned words and your friends must repeat things.
-When your friends ask "How many packs of cards do you have?" you say "I'll have to go count"
-You go to the supermarket and buy everything is lots of 12.
-Whenever you buy something you think of how many packs of cards you could have bought instead.
-When you skip meals to buy more cards with the money
-When you pay with credit just to do the card twirl.
-When you sit there for an hour sorting out two same colored decks based on how worn the edges are so that you don't get two useless decks.
-When you have enough jokers to make a complete deck
-When you've got so many cards you forget where you leave them
-When people ask you for your old decks for use at a poker game, you reply "But what if I want to reperfect my LePaul spread?"
-When someone takes your cards you yell at them and hand them the other more worn out deck from your other pocket
-When even bent broken ripped Tally-Ho's are sacred and cannot be touched by anyone
-When someone loses their bicycle it takes you 5 minutes to realise they mean BICYCLE not the brand.
-You write this list knowing that you've done nearly all of them

[thehumanbomb]

-when you're playing poker and people ask why the cards are signed
-when you use a card as a bookmark
-when you find a single card under your bed and you wonder if the card feels lonely
-when you have a paper towel/coin/anything else in your hand and everyone assumes its a magic trick

sorry, a couple of those are magic but i couldn't help it

[The Dark Angel]

When you pass on spending the night at your girlfriends house to practice your newest flourish.

[remy]

When you pass on spending the night at your girlfriends house to practice your newest flourish.

now that is just sad.....why wouldn't anybody want to practice in front of their girlfriend? hahaha just kidding.

[MitchellStafiej]

When you find yourself flipbacking cell phones, soap, bread, and butter.
When your dreams involve you being knighted by the Bucks.

Mitchell

[David.Blanch]

...Am I the 10th person to say that this thing have gone to far, and just isn't funny anymore?

[dummyisdumb]

When you rape your cards

[trashmanf]

...when you're such a fanboy that you don't do anything except cuts and you think that the flourishing world revolves around dbsquared and every thread you start has something to do with Jerrys and you're a tool and you post your "original" cut that got invented over 50 years ago but you dont own the encyclopedia so you post it online and it sucks and it gets lots of props from other n00bs that dont know any better and then I see it and start talking trashman and then you start hatin on me for calling you a n00b even tho you are a n00b and then you enter the trilogy contest but your video only got 1/5 stars coz only one person watched it and that was from your mom and even she flames your video because you used a weird inversion negative-film effect that makes it look like you're flourishing in a petri dish and then you give up cards because you just turned 13 and can finally get into "shrek 3" without a 2nd edition of the legal guardians and you credit brad christensen in a video and you start lots of threads about ellusionist over on theory 11 and you read this whole post and then you edit it because joan and her girlfriends got their panties in a bunch every time you have a lot of crap to say

[Jonas]

I got a lot of crap to say

Once again, shut up. :)

[UnholyGodn]

Trashman really needs to stop talking. Some people may not know alot about flourishing, but at least they aren't total idiots and prove it with every post they make.

[The Dark Angel]

You often dream of being able to go to the USPCC's main manufacturing plant.

[dasuprememep]

If there are cards in a movie, you look for what brand they are. If you don't know, you panic.

[Monkeyofmanipulation]

If you try to flourish with everything that can fit in your hand.

if you think about your cards when they are not in your hands....like a lover.

[The Dark Angel]

If there are cards in a movie, you look for what brand they are. If you don't know, you panic.

Haha, I get excited everytime I see cards in film or television, because I like to name their brand.

[Jordan Lapping]

- ...when the word 'spring' is no longer just another time of the year.

- ...when 'Buck' never makes you think of a Dollar.

- ...when Dribbling actually sounds nice.

- ...when 'Tally Ho' is something more than saying 'Hello'.

- ...when Aladdin is more than a fictional character.

- ...when the most frequently asked question you hear is "Do you play Poker?"

- ...when a standard-sized Bicycle can fit in your pocket.


Just a few I could think up :),
Jordan

[Great Scott!]

When you're Singaporean.

[arcangeld]

-When shuffling while playing card games you have to stop yourself from doing false cuts
- When cheap assed cards are not handled by your hands anymore
- When you cut cucumbers and watermelons with cards
- When you twirl and toss your handphone subconciously
- When the significant authorities asks you to put away the cards.. you make it dissapear..
- When its 2Am right now, but you are here reading this and playing with cards..
- When you dress as gambit for halloween :P

[andrew713]

When you rape your cards

hahahahahahaha. thats funny.

When you ask to borrow your friends cell phone, then you take out yours and do charliers using them.(did that yesterday) razrs work best.

[Sergey]

-When playing a card game it takes 5 of your friends to stop you from shuffling the deck because you have been doing that for like 10 minutes already

-when you call bicycle cards bikes

-When Jerry's Nuggets doesn't remind you of someone's private parts, or some fast food restaurant

-When you are not a fan of ellusionist anymore

-When you get a new deck of cards every 2 weeks
and so on

-When you know who Daren, Richard, and Kevin, and the other members of virtuoso
Good topic by the way it has humour and makes a lot of sense in other words it's funny because it's true

[Leon]

When a bunch of guys gather and start playing with their decks :D

Damn you Jaspas! :P

[UnholyGodn]

-When you get better at False Sybil just so your friends can't complain about you shuffling the cards mid hand.

[sourboarder]

- If your everyday job is a dishwasher and get PISSED when your hands are wet so you can't do flourishes while your waiting on more dishes.
- If you are seriously consitering getting the ace of spades on the gaurdians as your next tattoo. (sadly i am guilty.)
- If you bought a $25 membership to sam's clubs for the 13 packs of bikes for $14.99 best deal i've found. Even with the $25 membership.
- For halloween you "magically" produced a treat for the kids.
- If you have tried to make your own magicians wax.
- when you drop one cards doing molecule 4 you do it 20 more times.
- If a girlfriend has dumped you because you left her to do street magic. real short relationship. Oh well.
- If your girlfriend gets mad when you say criss angel or david blaine.

[Great Scott!]

- When everyone wishes you were dead.

[dasuprememep]

When you get sick of explaining that there is no more future in being a guy who works at a casino, becuase they use machine shufflers.

When you hope for the perfect pass

When you worship a guy with a last name that starts with a "Z"

When a double fire behind-your-back cross-handed king cobra actually makes sense to you.

You love ipod nanos because their length is exactly the same as a deck of cards.

When it starts to make sense why you should buy a card guard/clip

When you can think of more than 50 reasons why you need the trilogy

[LingNemesis]

When you love doing flourishes.

[The Dark Angel]

When you're guilty of looking into colleges in the Vegas area in order to work at a casino just so that you can be around cards all day. (Guilty)

[Jack The Magician]

When you remember this exact same thread posted a day prior, but cannot resist the urge to just ignore it. :D

When Kryptonite is Superman's best friend.

Cheers,
JTM

[Sergey]

-When Tectotonic Verb doesn't remind you of English Class
-(For all you De'vo fans)(not me) If you can pronounce De'vo's last name
-When Cards are more addicting to you than drugs or alcohol (they probably are because I just can't put them down)
-When you hear a song and think " oh that would be good in my flourish video"