DaveHax demonstrates a clever trick where you can hand an unopened banana to a friend or family member, and as they peel the layers off, much to their delight and surprise, they will find it to be already cut in perfect slices.
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How to do a pre-sliced banana magic trick. Cut your banana into segments before you even peel it! Great party trick which will amuse both adults and children. Simple to follow tutorial, all you need is a needle and a banana.
Boys will be boys!
The artwork for Minnesota’s Land O’ Lakes butter packaging is classic, dating back to 1928 when it was first created by Brown & Bigelow illustrator Arthur C. Hanson. The logo was updated (“modernized”) once in 1939, again in the ’50s, and has undergone minor modifications here and there since. The legendary packaging is good for two rather nerdy tricks: A) a very trippy optical illusion and B) a very infantile boob illusion.
The first fascination to be associated with the icon is its capacity for an infinite-loop motif—or more specifically, the Droste Effect: a visual effect in which a motif can theoretically be repeated infinitely within itself. To view this effect within the LandO’Lakes image, you would need a super powerful magnifying glass, or the ability to expand the most forefront image to enormous proportions. To see the effect visually illustrated, check out the (unrelated to LandO’Lakes) image to the right.As promised, the second fascination brings us to boobs. Just as nerdy as the Droste Effect, yet an entirely breed, the Land O’Lakes butter packaging boob trick is sure to please kids and (juvenile) adults alike. Here’s how it works: BEFORE:
AFTER:
To do it yourself: YouTube user calvirgil has shared a video demo of the process, so simply watch and follow along below. He folds the Indian woman’s knees up to create the illusion, but I prefer the version illustrated over at BeUnproductive.com, which is neater (pictured directly above).
First, here are the steps to the “cleaner” method:
- Flatten the Land O’Lakes butter packaging.
- Use an Xacto knife or scissors to cut out the front and back panels of the box, so that you have two identical images.
- In the first panel, use an Xacto knife to cut out/extract the tiny box of butter she is holding (the part of the image that allows the Droste Effect to occur).
- Take your second panel of the butter packaging and flip it upside down. Lie it face side up behind your initial panel that you cut the tiny box of butter from. *OR, simply cut out the knees and affix with tape behind the hole you’ve created in the first panel.
- And there ya go—exposed “boobs”.
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A Black guy and a Redneck go into a pastry shop.
The black guy whisks three cookies into his pocket with lightning speed. The baker doesn’t notice. The black guy says to the redneck: “You see how clever black people are? You rednecks can never beat that!” The redneck says to the black guy: “Any redneck is smarter than any black guy. Watch this and I’ll prove it to ya.” He says to the baker, “Give me a cookie, I’ll show you a magic trick!” The baker gives him the cookie, which the redneck promptly eats. Then he says to the baker: “Give me another cookie for my magic trick.” The baker is getting suspicious, but he gives it to him. He eats this one too. Then he says again: “Give me one more cookie…” The baker is getting angry now, but gives him one anyway. The redneck eats this one too. Now the baker is really mad, and he yells: “And where is your famous magic trick?” The redneck says, “Look in the black guy’s pocket! |
How to open a bottle of beer WITHOUT a bottle opener.
Attention Beer Lovers!! They say you don’t need a bottle opener after all… Hmm… I wonder if this really works. Has anyone tried it?
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Richard Wiseman of Quirkology simply holds a match against a pin and flicks it. Magically, the match is now behind the pin instead of in front of it. Can you figure out how he did it? It’s actually so simple.
