Pete Firman: Tricks to Freak Out Your Friends

Firman, Pete: Tricks to Freak Out Your Friends
©2006 Peter Firman, Michael O'Mara Books, Ltd, London
Softcover, perfect-bound, 7.5x9.5", 128 pages
ISBN: 978-1843172079

eBook Edition (Kindle, etc.)
©2013 Michael O'Mara Books, Ltd
ISBN: 978-1782431152

Peter Firman: Tricks to Freak Out Your Friends

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Comments: Mass market book of tricks, gags, bizarre magic.

Contents (from book ToC, numbers are not page numbers):

1 Acknowledgements
2 Foreword
3 Introduction
4 Pete’s Rules

5 My Parents Are Cousins
6 Eating Fish: Eat a live goldfish
7 Odd Digits: Crack your knuckles - make your friends squirm
8 Tongue Kebab: Stick a meat skewer through your tongue
9 Sore Neck: Crack your neck in a way that can’t be healthy
10 Crystal Canines: Take a bite fom a glass - crunch it for all to see
11 Is He Still With Us?: Stop your pulse - dead
12 Cracking Schnoz!: Twist your nose - who needs surgery?
13 Human Ashtray: Extinguish a burning cigarette on your tongue
14 Up Yours!: Give them the finger - literally
15 I Am The Resurrection: Bring a fly back from the dead - the Big Guy taught you
16 Is There Something In My Eye?: Stab a fork in your eye
17 Lighter Than Air: Hover six inches above the ground
18 Darwin’s Thumb Trick: Snip off your thumb with scissors
19 Nasal Floss: Clean your conk with the wrapper of a straw

20 Your Place Or Mine?
21 Bender!: Bend cutlery like a psychic freak
22 Give Me A Break: You’ve bent it - now melt it
23 Magic Powder: Snort a chosen card from the deck
24 Card On The Window: The TV trick - here’s how
25 Haunted Key: A key possessed by the dark lord moves of its own accord
26 Pasteboard Overload: A card spins out of the deck
27 Poker Face: Produce four of a kind from a shuffled deck, just like a pro
28 Super-Sweet Coin Vanish: The cleanest way to vanish a coin
29 Rip Off: Damage your mate’s new wallpaper (not really)
30 Pick Me Up: Lift a fully grown man with a few fingers
31 The Rice And Knife Mystery: A challenge nobody will believe is possible - prove ’em wrong
32 Through The Eye Of A Needle: Clean out your buddies by performing the impossible
33 Pit Stop: Flummox your mate who’s suddenly lost control of his thumb

34 Fancy a Pint?
35 The World’s Strongest Finger: Use your super-strong digit to pierce a matchbook in mid-air
36 Snorting Cigs: Suck a king-size up your smell chute
37 Nicotine On The Rocks: Pour cigarette smoke into a glass - then mix it up
38 Ashtray Messiah: The name of a chosen card appears, impossibly, on your arm
39 Skin Tight: An oldie, but a goodie - restore a torn cigarette paper
40 Breaking The Habit: Rip a cigarette in half then restore it
41 Drink As I Drink: The bar bet that will keep you in drinks for ever
42 Match That: A single ripped-out match reappears, fixed once again to the same matchbook - but having been lit
43 In The Palm Of Their Hand: Make something appear inside your friend’s clenched fist
44 Shot-Glass Hustle: Another free-drink winner - never fails
45 Arise, Sir Benson Of Hedges: Make a cigarette rise from the pack to your mouth
46 Slammer Bammer: Make a shot of tequila and the glass vanish

47 Let’s Go Eat!
48 Roll With It: Bounce the bread rolls of any eatery
49 Salt Or Pepper?: Make the two condiments change places
50 Knife Swallow: Stick some silver down your gullet
51 Have I Got A Spot?: The spot-squeeze you really should have saved until you were alone - it’s messy
52 Karate Fiver of Death: Break a stick with your rock-hard currency
53 I Quit!: Make a cigarette vanish
54 Psychic Straw: Move a suck-tube with the power of your mind
55 Kung-Fu Nana: Split a banana - without peeling it
56 On Me Head!: Push a grape through your head and out your gob
57 Soft Glass: Have a solid glass tumbler penetrate a tabletop
58 Brain Aneurysm: Terrify your mates by bleeding from the head

59 More Magic...