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Snerd
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Penn is always getting cut - 2007/02/17 12:55 Why doesn't Penn just use breakaway bottles? I mean, everything else in a magic show is rigged so he won't get hurt. Look at the bullet catch, that's just a trick. Table of Death? That's a trick, too. A dead Teller is of no use to anyone 'cept the necrophiliacs. If nothing else, it would just give him an even break all the time. He wants that movie-style break, so he would get the desired effect. I'm gonna e-mail Goudeau about this, too.
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Vlad the Impala
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Re:Penn is always getting cut - 2007/02/17 14:18 From the foreword to Jason Garfield's book "The Theory and Practice of Juggling", Penn wrote: I still juggle mismatched objects (I’ve made some pretty good money juggling broken liquor bottles no matter how much Jason doesn’t like it).

I think it's one of those things that Penn does because it really is hard, dangerous and not many people can do it. You have to fake the bullet catch but I'll bet Penn won't fake the bottles as he can do it for real.... there is no possible use for a signature* except to demonstrate how funny/geeky/cynical/pathetic you are.

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Snerd
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Re:Penn is always getting cut - 2007/02/17 15:18 Vlad the Impala wrote:
From the foreword to Jason Garfield's book "The Theory and Practice of Juggling", Penn wrote: I still juggle mismatched objects (I’ve made some pretty good money juggling broken liquor bottles no matter how much Jason doesn’t like it).

I think it's one of those things that Penn does because it really is hard, dangerous and not many people can do it. You have to fake the bullet catch but I'll bet Penn won't fake the bottles as he can do it for real....
I see your point, but after a while wouldn't he just switch to the breakaways because he's tired of getting cut? The audience wouldn't notice if he broke a few real ones first.
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Vlad the Impala
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Re:Penn is always getting cut - 2007/02/17 16:19 I like your idea (as I agree, he gets cut too much) but it'll never happen - pass it to the floppy haired one by all means but it'll never happen.

This quote was on the Randi forums from user "Brown": "The broken bottles trick was interesting, too, because much of what Penn said was NOT B.S. This stunt really does entail a danger of being lacerated. When juggling an unfamiliar object, a juggler really does need to take a few practice thows(sic) to get a "feel" of the object. Objects that have their mass unevenly distributed (like some broken bottles) really do move in unusual ways when thrown. Stopping juggling of some objects really is harder than starting. (Some jugglers find that it is a simple matter to juggle eggs without breaking them, but that the risk of breakage is very high when stopping.)" there is no possible use for a signature* except to demonstrate how funny/geeky/cynical/pathetic you are.

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JoMadge
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Re:Penn is always getting cut - 2007/02/17 20:26 What, and lose the chance to brag about his cuts on the air the next day? Psh!

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ylbissop
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Re:Penn is always getting cut - 2007/02/26 04:15 I think this is summed up best by Penn's explanation of eating fire "To everything else in the show there's a trick--don't let anybody tell you differently. Susan floating in the air, she wasn't hypnotized--there's no "balance point." Go home, get a chair, clear your mind, think clean thoughts, concentrate: you'll break your ass. It's a gimmick, it's a lie, it's a cheat, it's a swindle! But fire-eating is a stunt". In my opinion the stunt that now creates the "mystery" that Penn talks about in his fire eating speech is what the broken bottles is all about he knows the value of that ten in one type of act after all it was just that sort of act that made him want to work with teller.
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