Updates 1/13

If you’re a supporter of the site you should have received an email on Saturday with the shipping details for your rewards package. If you don’t think you got this email, check your spam. If it’s not there, you’re probably not in the email account that associated with your paypal, which is the default where I send such emails. So check that email address too. (If you don’t find it there, email me.) I can’t send you your package until you complete the steps there, so please do so when you can.

I’m also in the process of reaching out to people who emailed me to be on the waiting list for the 2019 support package for some of the “overage” copies printed by the book printer. I’m going to work through that list chronologically until those copies are gone.

Today I want to offer you a sneak peek at The Jerx Deck #3, which will be coming in your 2019 reward package.

It’s a deck 16 years in the making.

In 2004 I wrote…

I read an effect once and the effect required you to do a bit of fishing in order to figure out which card a spectator was thinking of. At one point in the effect you had to ask, "Was it a cherry-colored card?" And I've seen people use this line at least a couple of times in my life. In the effect I was reading it said that women will most often think of red cards so this is a pretty safe line if used on a woman, and if she didn't think of a red card there is an "out." The "out" is that you say, "Well, there are black cherries." 

Now, it's one thing if you consider that a joke (I don't, because I think jokes should be funny), but is it in any way an out? An "out" implies something subtle that makes something (a prediction or a statement) that is incorrect seem correct. But there's no way that cherry-colored shit could be considered an out in my mind. Why not just do this: Someone chooses a card and you say, "Was it a red card?" If they say "no," your out is "Well, then it was a black card." That's just as clever an out as the "black cherries" thing.

In 2016 I came up with a shockingly brilliant improvement of this concept.

Just use a deck with pink and brown suits, instead of red and black.

Then, if you are an American, travel to England. If you're British, travel to America.

Then, when you need to fish for the color of the card, you say:

“You picked a fanny colored card.”

This cunningly capitalizes on the fact that Americans use “fanny” to mean butt. And in England they use it to mean berginuh.

Hold on, let me spell check that…

Sorry… vagina.

So, for example, as an American in Britain, I would say to my audience:

‘You picked a fanny colored card!’

If they say yes, then I know it’s a pink card.

If they say no, then I say. “It wasn’t a brown card?”

They’ll admit that it was and then say, “But you said it was fanny-colored.”

Then I say, “Oh, how silly of me. I forgot where I was. You know that in America ‘fanny’ refers to the butt. So I meant the card was brown, like a butthole.”

It’s simplicity itself!

But we’ve lacked the deck needed to do it correctly.

Until now…

Introducing The Jerx Deck #3.