Finally, during the song I'm Going Home, when Frank sings, "Cards for sorrow, cards for pain," it's customary to throw cards.
Set up a potato or a banana and throw cards at it.
After practicing and being able to throw cards without missing, you could try moving your arms for extra speed.
If you want to throw cards straight off the deck, hustler-style, grip the deck firmly with the long side of the cards in the palm of your hand, the short sides perpendicular with your body.
(Ferguson is also adept at throwing cards like missiles, which he learned from a book by the magician and card specialist Ricky Jay).
(This doesn't seem an exaggeration, particularly for a magician who, earlier on, cultivated a somewhat sinister persona by turning thrown cards into weapons).
Magicians from the nineteenth century threw cards distances, but I think I'm the first one who made a thing about using them as weapons.
People would get the book and think "This is just a made-up book and nobody actually throws cards at incredible speeds with accuracy, penetrating watermelons and such".
He does not repeat his famous trick of throwing cards into a watermelon, but instead alludes to it with a visual joke involving classical statuary.
We never talk politics, I suspect because we are so far apart that if we did, we would probably start throwing cards at one another.
_ Magicians from the nineteenth century threw cards distances, but I think I'm the first one who made a thing about using them as weapons.
