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Christopher Priest:Every great magic trick consists of three parts or acts.
The first part is called "The Pledge". The magician shows you something ordinary: a deck of cards, a bird or a man. He shows you this object. Perhaps he asks you to inspect it to see if it is indeed real, unaltered, normal. But of course... it probably isn't.
The second act is called "The Turn". The magician takes the ordinary something and makes it do something extraordinary. Now you're looking for the secret... but you won't find it, because of course you're not really looking. You don't really want to know. You want to be fooled. But you wouldn't clap yet. Because making something disappear isn't enough; you have to bring it back.
That's why every magic trick has a third act, the hardest part, the part we call "The Prestige".
The Prestige
“To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone,
a backbone and a funny bone.”
(Reba McEntire: actress, singer)
Shiver me timbers: Expression of the Popeye cartoon character?
It's The Law! (As a reminder to do or not to do something.)
Bagged and Tagged: expression heard on some crime/criminal/law/court related television shows that refers to the disposition of a corpse at a crime scene. In other words, the person is sometimes placed into a zippered plastic-like bag and identified with a name. If no identification is found, they are labeled as either a Jane Doe or John Doe.
In the television series "Warehouse 13" (which contains themes from the X-files, Librarian and other television shows), the three-patterned expression of "Snag it, Bag it and Tag it" is heard. The expression is directed towards the collection of "unusual artifacts" which produce non-normal effects or events.
3-part expression using four words: I can do it- I can do it- I can do it.
Three common male names (and their derivatives) associated with various activities, items, conditions:
- Jack- Jack knife, Jack of all trades, Jack hammer, etc...
- Tom- Tom foolery, Tom cat, Tommy gun, etc...
- John- Toilet, Johnny come lately, Johnny reb, etc...
Three girl or boy names (and their derivatives) associated with various activities, items, conditions:
- Billy (Bill, Will, Wilma, William, etc.)- Billy goat, Billy club, Willy Nilly, etc...
- Bobby (Bob, Robert, Robin, Roberta, etc.)- Bobby pin, Bobby (British police officer), Fishing bob, etc...
- Terry- Terry cloth, Tarry, (Tory/Tarry- tar and feather?)
(You might want to add to the above list of examples.)
William Durant, founder of General Motors:
- "Forget past mistakes.
- Forget failures.
- Forget everything except what you going to do now and do it."
Grenville Kleiser
- "There are many fine things which you mean to do some day,
- under what you think will be more favorable circumstances.
- But the only time that is yours is the present."
Agatha Christie (1890 - 1976)
- "I like living.
- I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow,
- but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing."
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3 body- related references sometimes heard in reference to a specific behavior in a particular context that should be attended to as a rule-of-thumb:
- Keep your shoulder to the wheel.
- Keep your nose to the grindstone (or wind).
- Keep your ear to the ground.
3-patterned standard rule-of-thumb for changing oil: Every 3 months or 3,000 miles. (This is nothing more than an advertisement to sell more oil because even though oil may look dirty, it requires an analysis to prove that it actually is. This is why the military tests many of their vehicles for oil contaminates because the cost of oil and related products is out-rageous!)
3 ways to communicate:
- Telegraph
- Telephone
- Tell a woman
3-way decision encountered in the military:
- The Right Way.
- The Wrong Way.
- The Army Way. (or The Navy Way, The Marine Way, The Air Force Way.)
3 characteristic problems encountered by those using a recipe book:
- The pages will flip.
- Food spills on the pages.
- The pages can't be read easily.
3-patterned phrases of Susie Gharib on the (U.S. televised) Nightly Business Report:
Good Evening Everyone.../And Finally Tonight.../
3-patterned phrase of Peter Jennings: Finally This Evening...
| 3 principal parts of common irregular verbs: | ||
| Plain form | Past tense | Past participle |
| arise become begin bid bite blow break bring burst buy catch choose come cut dive do draw dream drink drive eat fall find flee fly forget freeze get give go grow hand (suspend) hang (execute) hear hide hold keep know lay lead leave let lie lose pay prove ride ring rise run say see set shake sing sink sit slide speak spring stand steal swim take tear throw wear write |
arose became began bid bit blew broke brought burst bought caught chose came cut dived, dove did drew dreamed, dreamt drank drove ate fell found fled flew forgot froze got gave went grew hung hanged heard hid held kept knew laid led left let lay lost paid proved rode rang rose ran said saw set shook sang, sung sank, sunk sat slid spoke sprang, sprung stood stole swam took tore threw wore wrote |
arisen become begun bid bitten, bit blown broken brought burst bought caught chosen come cut dived done drawn dreamed, dreamt drunk driven eaten fallen found fled flown forgotten, forgot frozen got, gotten given gone grown hung hanged heard hidden held kept known laid led left let lain lost paid proved, proven ridden rung risen run said seen set shaken sung sunk sat slid spoken sprung stood stolen swum taken torn thrown worn written |
List taken from pages 227-229, of The Little, Brown Handbook, fifth edition. H. Ramsey Fowler, Jane E. Aaron, ©1992 by HarperCollins Publishers Inc. ISBN 0-673-52132-X | ||
In the thirteen year of rule of the second Manchu emperor (Kiang Hsi), a monastery of fighting monks ("Siu Lam") were recruited by the emperor to defeat a rebellion in Fukien. These monasteries received some imperial power as a reward. Due to court jealousies, these Fukien Buddhist monks were then themselves seen as a threat, and an army was sent to suppress them. Eighteen monks escaped, but only 5 survived further, who are thought to have founded 5 monasteries, and five secret societies, dedicated to overthrowing the Manchu (also known as the Ching) dynasty, and restoring the previous Chinese Ming dynasty, which was seen as a golden age for China. Their (2 by 2 three-part) motto became "Crush the Ch'ing, establish the Ming".
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Winston Spencer Churchill:
- It is not the end.
- It is not even the beginning of the end,
- but it may be the end of the beginning.
3 similarly sounding words: Sense- Cents- Scents
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