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   Captain Haddock wrote:

  Absolutely zero chance Howard. See - Misdirection (magic)
  
  There are two basic ways to "misdirect" an audience. One is to encourage the audience to look away for a fleeting moment, so that the sleight or move may be accomplished undetected. The other approach has much to do with re-framing the audience's perception, where the minds of the audience members are distracted into thinking that an extraneous factor has much to do with the accomplishment of the feat, whereas in reality it has no bearing on the effect at all. Dariel Fitzkee notes that "The true skill of the magician is in the skill he exhibits in influencing the spectators mind.
  
  See what's happening?
  
  (Of course you don't because the misdirection has worked!)
  

  
  Very clever. I was almost fooled until the lack of a possessive apostrophe in the penultimate (quoted) word abruptly interrupted the illusion.

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