This requires intense concentration and absolute silence…
You must focus your mind on this screen and not make a sound…
Clear your thoughts…
Let your inner self settle into a still pond in a quiet, shaded forest clearing…
Now follow these little dots… …. ….. …… ………. ……………. ………….. ……… ……
…………………………….. ………………………………. ……………..oo oooo ooooo
oooooooooooooo ooooooooooooooooooooooooo oooooooooooo 0 000 00000
00000000000000000o 0000000000000000000000000 ooooooooo ooooo ooo
ooo o o o o o o o o o ………… . ……….. …………………………………………………………….
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There…
We did it…
The world’s very first live magic trick performed on a blog post.
I just made a minute of your life disappear!
Pouring My Art Out 
Groan!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ha
It surpassed the technology. You made me disappear.
I am that good
Can you bring me back now?
I haven’t learned that yet
I need a map, get me Dora the Explorer
Nope not happy, where is my refund?
You get it at the end…
Where do I get my refund???
In the afterlife
That really is magic…
it would have to be
Ha! I did what Doob did – looked at the first line then went to the last line – except I wasn’t indisposed, so to speak. Remember the Seinfeld episode where George takes the store book into the bathroom and they make him buy it because it’s now a bathroom book – having been touched by someone on the can? Well, Doob has a bathroom laptop. If you ever visit him make sure you find out which laptop is the bathroom one beofre you touch anything. Ha!
People wear clothes in the can… and we hug each other… also, when you go into a smelly bathroom after someone else, you are basically in a snow globe full of tiny poo particles… landing on your eyeballs and tongue…
You have a way with words Art….
I am not afraid to use them
But it wasn’t a waste of time. I found it a calming, relaxing experience. Have you ever considered becoming an internet guru?
wait… you mean I’m not one???
Can I have my minute back please!!
no… I am saving them
I think my minute already disappeared before I even read the post! Amazing!
I didn’t know you prepared yourself for my posts so extensively
99% of magic is preparation.
Preparation X… so much better than that Preparation H…
It’s 10 times better.
It needs to be… HA!
I was born on the day that stuff was invented… pretty sure I did a post about it.
Mind. Blown.
my work here is done
I cheated. I skipped all of the dots and o’s and asterisks and went right to the end to read the punch in the gut line. But then I decided to write this comment. So you definitely made a minute — maybe even two — disappear. The good news, though, is that I was sitting on the toilet when I read this post, so, you know, multitasking. All was not lost.
I feel strangely violated
I think it was two minutes, you owe me two bucks
you get paid a dollar a minute… are you a neuro-surgeon or a taxi driver???
I’m a consultant yes I get paid at least a dollar a minute
but this wasn’t a consultation… also, I should be making at least a buck fifty a minute for my blogging work… so you owe me a dollar…
Bloggers get paid in peanuts, I sent a case over, I guess the crack squirrels got them. Squirrels love the peanuts
but did you get the special crack sprinkled ones???
Only the best
and don’t get caught mailing those across state lines
Who me? Sweet, innocent me?
people don’t always pay attention to things
I notice everything, except of course what I don’t
I noticed that…
I expected you would
thanks
Cute. I actually fell for it.
seriously???
Seriously. Until I got to the last line of your post, I really didn’t know what to expect. Sure, I didn’t expect any magic to actually happen, but I expected the punch line to be something different. Your last line is perfect, however. I did, in fact, lose of minute of my life on your post.
But all the rest of the posts in this blog contain some actual magic… so you come out ahead in the long run
Bah dum tiss! And I’ll never get that minute back!
I am working on a trick for that
😲 amazing
I wasn’t sure it was going to work
Lol
I am well known for going out on the proverbial limb here…