[longshadow]

As Harry Anderson put it "if somebody comes up to you on the street and bets you that the queen of diamonds will jump out of this deck of cards and spit cider in your ear, and you take that bet, don't be surprised if you get a wet ear."

That would actually be the character "Sky Masterson" quoting his father in "The Idyll of Miss Sarah Brown," a short story in Damon Runyon's collection entitled "Guys & Dolls" published in 1932, which was the basis of the musical comedy of the same name 20+ years later. Marlon Brando played "Masterson" in the film version, which co-starred Frank Sinatra as the hapless floating crap game promoter "Nathan Detroit."

[general_re]

That would actually be the character "Sky Masterson" quoting his father in "The Idyll of Miss Sarah Brown," a short story in Damon Runyon's collection entitled "Guys & Dolls" published in 1932, which was the basis of the musical comedy of the same name 20+ years later.

Good old Damon Runyon....

When you see a guy,
Making shapes in the rye,
You can bet
That he's doing it for some doll...

:^)

[discostu]

That wouldn't surprise me. Harry's whole magic persona is stole from that genre (20s/ 30s hip, not musicals). He used it in his first Showtime special right at the end, after he says it the queen of diamonds jumps out of the giant deck he's holding and spit cider all over the camera. Good special, good magic, solic cons. We don't want to talk about how many decades ago I saw Guys and Dolls.

Thanks