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	<title>Magic, Pranks, and Tricks</title>
	<link>http://www.madskills.info</link>
	<description>A blog about simple tricks, pranks and magic.</description>
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		<title>Levitate</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Description: This trick makes one look like they are levitating.  David Blaine has been known to pull this trick off.
Difficulty: Moderate
Instructions:
Face away from your audience.  Turn your mount leg away from the audience at about 30-60 degrees.  The idea is that your left leg and heel hide your mount leg.
You will need [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.madskills.info/levitate/</link>
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		<title>Paperclip Spring</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Description: This trick will create a spring out of a paper clip.
Difficulty: Easy
Instructions:
1. Find any paper clip.  The larger the clip the more spring power it will have.
2. Open it out into a square shape.
3. Bend the two end sides to be parallel with each other.
4. Open the metal up about half an inch.
5. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.madskills.info/paperclip-spring/</link>
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		<title>Cut a card deck with one hand</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Description: Cut a deck of cards using one hand.
Difficulty: Easy
Instructions:
1. Obtain a deck of cards
2. Hold the deck of cards between your thumb and all four fingers of one hand.
3. Pull the base of your thumb away from the bottom part of the deck so about half the deck falls into your palm.
4. Push the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.madskills.info/cut-a-card-deck-with-one-hand/</link>
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		<title>Spit Wads</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Description: This is the ancient art of hurling wet paper at targets.
Difficulty: Easy
Instructions:
Obtain a straw and a napkin.
Remove the straw from the wrapping.
Rip off a piece of napkin about 1 inch by 1 inch.  Just enough to create a ball the size of the opening of the straw.  If your straw is bigger [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.madskills.info/spit-wads/</link>
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		<title>Straw Paper Worm</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Description: This trick creates what looks like a growing worm when you add water.
Difficulty: Easy
Instructions:
1. Get a straw still in its wrapper.
2. Start pulling down the paper so it crunches together towards the bottom of the straw.  Try to keep it from breaking, but make it as tight as you can.
3. Slip the compressed [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.madskills.info/straw-paper-worm/</link>
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		<title>Fold straw paper into Bandonion shape</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Description: This is a simple trick to do at a restaurant when you are bored.
Difficulty: Easy
Instructions:
Get a straw still in its wrapping.

Remove the straw and flatten the wrapping at the fold.

Fold it in the middle at a 90 degree angle.

Fold one side over the side you just folded.

Fold the first side over the second side.

Continue [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.madskills.info/fold-straw-paper-into-xylophone-shape/</link>
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		<title>Flick and pop a straw</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Description: This trick creates a loud popping sound when performed right.
Difficulty: Easy
Instructions:
Find a straw.  The thick, malleable ones from McDonald&#8217;s work great.

Pinch each side of the straw to seal off the air inside.

Begin winding up the straw so the air inside increases pressure.  Wind it up to about two inches.

Get a friend to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.madskills.info/flick-and-pop-a-straw/</link>
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		<title>Make a fart sound with armpit</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Description: This is one of the oldest tricks known to man.  Farting under the armpit.
Difficulty: Easy
Instructions:
Raise one arm.
Cup the hand of your other arm up against your arm pit.  Squeeze your arm against your body.
Result: The resulting pressure increase will cause the air in the pocket to be forced out creating a reverberating [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.madskills.info/make-a-fart-sound-with-armpit/</link>
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		<title>Which hand is the rubber band in?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Description: This is a simple magic trick to choose which hand the rubber band fell into.
Difficulty: Easy
Instructions:
Bend the rubber band so both sides of the band are equal length.

Grab one end of the band between your middle finger and palm of your right hand.

Then grab the other end of the band between your middle finger [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.madskills.info/which-hand-is-the-rubber-band-in/</link>
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		<title>Make knuckle crack sound by snapping finger</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Description: This is a trick to snap your knuckle where people cannot see it but it looks like your really cracking your knuckle.
Difficulty: Easy
Instructions:
Place your middle finger of your right hand between your index finger and middle finger of your left hand.

Place your index finger and middle finger of your left hand over the knuckles [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.madskills.info/crack-knuckes/</link>
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