Contents

Preface

PART ONE Going to Hell in a Shopping Basket

1. Kentucky Fried Chicken

2. Food Horror Stories

3. Coca-Cola

4. Uncolas

5. Liqueurs and Bitters

PART TWO Everything You Owe Is Wrong

6. Weird Stuff on Money

7. Currency Paper

8. Credit Cards

9. The VOID Pop-up

10. The Universal Product Code

PART THREE Kids, Don’t Try This at Home

11. Perfumes

12. Playing Cards

13. Letters, Stamps, and Envelopes

14. Paraphernalia

PART FOUR Alice, Let’s Cheat

15. The Eye Test

16. The Rorschach Test

17. The Lie-Detector Test

18. How to Crash the Freemasons

PART FIVE Pay No Attention to the Man Behind the Curtain

19. David Copperfield’s Dancing Handkerchief in a Bottle

20. Harry Blackstone, Jr.’s Sawing a Woman in Two

21. Uri Geller’s Blindfold Drive

22. Doug Henning’s Vanishing Horse and Rider

23. The Amazing Kreskin’s Social Security Number Divination

PART SIX Always the Last to Know

24. Did Neil Armstrong Blow His Lines?

25. Secret Radio Frequencies

26. Secret Messages on Records

27. Subliminal Shots in Movies

28. Is Walt Disney Frozen?

Index

Copyright

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