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<blockquote data-quote="Geek" data-source="post: 2154188" data-attributes="member: 246624">Knife throwing is for real.&nbsp; This came up on a different thread.&nbsp; Although it is possible to make a fake stage act that involves what looks like knife throwing, that is actually fairly rare.&nbsp; It is easier to learn to throw the knife than to make a contraption that would actually fool today&#039;s skeptical audiences. The following is a YouTube video that happens to be of a performance that Stephanie Zvan, Julia and I saw last September (I remember two or three things in this video that identify it as that specific show, that specific day).&nbsp; &nbsp;<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/04/the_cucumber_slice_on_the_whee.php" target="_blank">Read the rest of this post...</a> | <a href="http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/04/the_cucumber_slice_on_the_whee.php#commentsArea" target="_blank">Read the comments on this post...</a><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/GregLadensBlog/~4/a37nqvywCCU" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /><a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GregLadensBlog/~3/a37nqvywCCU/the_cucumber_slice_on_the_whee.php" target="_blank">More...</a></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Geek, post: 2154188, member: 246624"] Knife throwing is for real. This came up on a different thread. Although it is possible to make a fake stage act that involves what looks like knife throwing, that is actually fairly rare. It is easier to learn to throw the knife than to make a contraption that would actually fool today's skeptical audiences. The following is a YouTube video that happens to be of a performance that Stephanie Zvan, Julia and I saw last September (I remember two or three things in this video that identify it as that specific show, that specific day). [URL="http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/04/the_cucumber_slice_on_the_whee.php"]Read the rest of this post...[/URL] | [URL="http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/04/the_cucumber_slice_on_the_whee.php#commentsArea"]Read the comments on this post...[/URL][IMG]http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/GregLadensBlog/~4/a37nqvywCCU[/IMG] [url=http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GregLadensBlog/~3/a37nqvywCCU/the_cucumber_slice_on_the_whee.php]More...[/url] [/QUOTE]

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