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From: tim@hoptoad.uucp (Tim Maroney)
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Subject: Re: DRIED BLOOD TURNS LIQUID
Message-ID: <3133@hoptoad.uucp>
Date: Thu, 8-Oct-87 14:43:10 EDT
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Posted: Thu Oct  8 14:43:10 1987
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In article <7324@alice.UUCP> jj@alice.UUCP writes:
>Probably any stage magician would know. I'm not one, but
>I do know enough chemestry to guess what sorts of things
>would work.

I'm not a stage magician either, but I do know enough about it to know that
non-prestidigitators are usually too fast to pin magic tricks on exotic
substances when the real magic is the time-tested switcheroo.  Most weird
substances are not all that useful for tricks, being unpredictable and toxic
and requiring special education to go messing about with.

Considered as a magic trick, the blood liquification is trivial, a simple
switch.  Two vials, one appearance.
-- 
Tim Maroney, {ihnp4,sun,well,ptsfa,lll-crg}!hoptoad!tim (uucp)
hoptoad!tim@lll-crg (arpa)