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lawrence567

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7,507 posts

219 months

Tuesday 8th September 2009
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I work for a company selling commercial catering equipment & sundries.
A month or 2 ago, a guy (a magician) came in wanting to buy a few boxes of forks for his show.
He came back about a after asking for some more forks for his show, the guys in the shop asked what he wanted them for.
He showed them that he bend forks (no idea how).
The guys were skeptical and asked him to prove it.
He took a completely un-bent fork, put it in the hand of my work colleague and did some magician stuff and twisted the stem of the fork.
It went into my colleagues hand unbent or twisted & came out as below.
It was'nt slight of hand as we re-watched the CCTV and he does'nt seem change the fork & it 100% goes in my colleagues hand as "normal"
This is how the fork ended up:



(Note twisted stem).
We've tried doing this by hand and it's not possible.
Anybody know hows it's done?

C8PPO

20,855 posts

232 months

Tuesday 8th September 2009
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Your customer is Uri Geller AICMFP.

lawrence567

Original Poster:

7,507 posts

219 months

Tuesday 8th September 2009
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C8PPO said:
Your customer is Uri Geller AICMFP.
That was my first question.
Apparently he isn't.

mrmr96

13,736 posts

233 months

Tuesday 8th September 2009
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He simply warms the metal up with his hand so it becomes plyable and easy to bend. Simple when you know how... wink

SXi Lad

2,964 posts

218 months

Tuesday 8th September 2009
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Sell it on ebay

Dupont666

22,887 posts

221 months

Tuesday 8th September 2009
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mrmr96 said:
He simply warms the metal up with his hand so it becomes plyable and easy to bend. Simple when you know how... wink
Did he use a mini blow torch?

mrmr96

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233 months

Tuesday 8th September 2009
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Dupont666 said:
mrmr96 said:
He simply warms the metal up with his hand so it becomes plyable and easy to bend. Simple when you know how... wink
Did he use a mini blow torch?
Body heat.

Frankeh

12,558 posts

214 months

Tuesday 8th September 2009
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mrmr96 said:
He simply warms the metal up with his hand
37 degrees isn't going to do squat to a fork. If it did, they would melt when in contact with mash potato.

GTIR

24,741 posts

295 months

Tuesday 8th September 2009
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mrmr96 said:
He simply warms the metal up with his hand so it becomes plyable and easy to bend. Simple when you know how... wink
Ok, go and try that and report back clever clogs!

It's magic see so unless your a magician you couldn't possibly do it.

smile

Driller

8,310 posts

307 months

Tuesday 8th September 2009
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It wasn't the same fork.

ETA <either that or he's a real magician. You choose.

Edited by Driller on Tuesday 8th September 12:16

cazzer

8,883 posts

277 months

Tuesday 8th September 2009
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Pffth....Muggles smile

shirt

25,394 posts

230 months

Tuesday 8th September 2009
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Frankeh said:
mrmr96 said:
He simply warms the metal up with his hand
37 degrees isn't going to do squat to a fork. If it did, they would melt when in contact with mash potato.
O RLY?



must have been a different fork. did your colleacgue have his hand clasped over the prongs? did he feel anything?

mrmr96

13,736 posts

233 months

Tuesday 8th September 2009
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LMAO at people taking 'body heat' seriously....

I've no idea how it's done. But I do know that I can easliy bend unheated steel cutlery very easliy with my hands. (I.e. bending the head of a spoon relative to the handle, Geller style.) Can't see the photo at work so I don't know exactly what this chap has done. I presume he's a sourcerer of a wizard of somekind.

shirt

25,394 posts

230 months

Tuesday 8th September 2009
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mrmr96 said:
LMAO at people taking 'body heat' seriously....
do you need a whoosh as well?

SirClarke

633 posts

205 months

Tuesday 8th September 2009
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Presumably this man is a wizard of some sort?


Conian

8,030 posts

230 months

Tuesday 8th September 2009
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maybe your forks are really flimsy n thats why he chooses you and not the local asian run warehouse or pikey run pound shop smile

spooky tho!

and for the chap who cant see the pic, it is rotated around the stem, a full twist and the prongs are at fancy angles, quite evenly spread too.

Arese

21,344 posts

216 months

Tuesday 8th September 2009
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Fork knows.

mrmr96

13,736 posts

233 months

Tuesday 8th September 2009
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shirt said:
mrmr96 said:
LMAO at people taking 'body heat' seriously....
do you need a whoosh as well?
/coat

Weaver

107 posts

215 months

Tuesday 8th September 2009
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cazzer said:
Pffth....Muggles smile
laugh

Halb

53,012 posts

212 months

Tuesday 8th September 2009
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I think some used chemicals, but can't quite remember
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spoon_bending#Techniq...