[christhemagician]

Hello,

Please excuse the shamless plug, I even made sure I had permission for it! Sadly I'm not on the show this month (and I'm gutted about it) but less sadly it does mean I'm performing my mind-reading type show at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. It's on at 6.30pm every night except the 14th August at the Gilded Balloon and is called Chris Cox - Everything Happens For A Reason.

Brilliantly it's already won an award (albeit for poster design!) it's sold out (once.. tickets still available for the rest of the run!), and got good reviews... here's some more info on it, you can book at http://www.gildedballoon.co.uk/2007/fringe_show_details.php?show_ID=504 If you or anyone you know is in Edinburgh and fancy seeing something funny, different and exciting, then do pop along if you get the chance.

The earth goes round the Sun, the Sun still prints photos of topless models, you can't change the laws of the universe - or can you? Chris 'the magician' Cox fuses magic, mind-reading, psychology & comedy to create a show like no other. You never know, he just might take control of YOUR life.

EVERYTHING HAPPENS FOR A REASON is a comedy-fuelled, interactive, theatrical experience utilising cutting-edge magic, multimedia technology and youthful showmanship, energy and flair, with not a wand, fez, saw or crystal ball in sight. In EVERYTHING HAPPENS FOR A REASON, Chris will delve deeper into the minds of the audience. Through subliminal messaging, subtle suggestion, illusion and psychology, Chris performs a series of individual mind-tricks as he takes the audience on a path to their own grand finale that Chris will have predicted – and if he didn’t, then perhaps he wasn’t meant to, the show will finish a couple of minutes early and who knows where those extra minutes will lead; To the purchase of a winning lottery ticket? To the middle of the road at the wrong time, only to be struck down by a bus? Meeting a soul-mate through a chance encounter as you leave the venue early? And, should that happen, will it have been influenced by Chris suggesting it might?

"He's brilliant, he'll blow your mind" - Ricky Gervais
"Must See" The Stage
"***** Amazing" Broadway Baby
"**** Will Leave You Awe-Struck & Speechless" Threeweeks

"Derren Brown clearly has some serious competition. Chris is hugely talented, a fine and funny entertainer and definitely one to watch out for. A masterly show, deftly executed with charm, modesty, and self-effacement - Chris Cox is absolutely fantastic." - NotBBC.com

sorry and thanks! feel free to take the piss..... now.

[Boboff]

Best of luck chap, I hope you do very well.

£10.50 ! Bloody Bargain ! If you ever do Butlins Minehead let me know !

[foot-loose]

Come through to Glasgow and I'll get a crowd together. Edinburgh, i doubt will happen.

[Walter Sobchak]

Best of luck Chris, only wish that I could get up there to see it.

[Gaspode_The_Wonder_Dog]

Its a bit short notice.

[christhemagician]

it's not that late notice when it's on for the whole month!!

[Gaspode_The_Wonder_Dog]

I know someone who is going up there. Is it suitable for children?

[christhemagician]

yeh probably anyone aged 12 or up, there are a few *mild* swear words but nothing that should offend, had lots of fairly youngish kids in who all love a bit of cox.

that sounds so wrong.

excitingly to make your eyes even more pleased here is a lovely photo of me looking well cool by the biggest poster I've ever seen of me. I say cool, I obviously mean like a nerd and/or geek.

[Gaspode_The_Wonder_Dog]

Thats really strong glue.

[foot-loose]

Thats really strong glue.

you should really try giving that up, its not healthy.

[Gaspode_The_Wonder_Dog]

Better or worse than deep fried Mars bars?

[foot-loose]

I've never tried deep fried mars bars.

Come to think of it, i've never tried glue either.

[SAV1OUR]

Its got to be done, you gotta go there to come back..stronger

[MK Chris]

What?

[SAV1OUR]

What do you mean what, we're talking about trying things.

[Boboff]

Is a shameless plug A three pinned attachment to a kettle lead that doesn't mid public nudity ?

[foot-loose]

why a kettle?

[MK Chris]

Power leads are generally referred to as kettle leads, even though they can be used on lots of things.

Well, power leads that look like this anyway:

[foot-loose]

Are they?

Well there ye go - that can be what I learned today.

That and when your accounts don't balance by 4 pence, its bloody irritating.

[MK Chris]

Can't you just add 4p, you tightwad sweaty..?

[Ballbag]

Power leads are generally referred to as kettle leads, even though they can be used on lots of things.

Well, power leads that look like this anyway:

*dies of boredom*

[MK Chris]

Well, he asked.. and it's not like it was a long and detailed explanation.

[foot-loose]

Can't you just add 4p, you tightwad sweaty..?

See, you would think it would be as straight forward as that. I have 4p in my pocket. However, I have no way of getting it into the accounts.

The accountant complained last time I just added money in without any proof of where it had come from.

[Yudster]

Well, he asked.. and it's not like it was a long and detailed explanation.

It was dull, but if it killed bfb, it can't be all bad.

[Boboff]

Can't you just add 4p, you tightwad sweaty..?

See, you would think it would be as straight forward as that. I have 4p in my pocket. However, I have no way of getting it into the accounts.

The accountant complained last time I just added money in without any proof of where it had come from.

As an accountant you do the following

Change a 4 to an 8 in the column which would make the thing balance they really don't mind if you don't tell them.

It's important when you start that you can do these things to balance by the penny, but really after a while you have to say that it is better time spent earning than fretting about things as small as this.

As long as it adds up at the end of the day that's all we bean counters worry about.

I know it's cheating but it really is not important.

Oh and pedantic Pete ( Footie ) I said a 3 pinned thing on a kettle lead, as to say a plug that like public nudity wouldn't have been so obscure, and therefore in my head, not as funny, as indeed it was a joke.