Lio by Mark Tatulli for June 24, 2022

you were hoping for a beanstalk from which to climb to a castle in the sky, Lio?

All I get from magic beans are the farts…

Traded in a cow for those beans?

No saw for cutting a lady — not me!! — in half!?

Should read the fine print, Lio!

Ooo, tricky

Pick a card, any card…

Hey, Rocky. watch me pull a rabbit out my hat!

Again?!

What, no Weenus and Eightball?

Not what I expected but not bad…..

BUNNY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Hiya Happyx3!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :)

Actual conversation:

Me: I wonder what would happen if somebody ate the magic beans.

A: Enormous piles.

B: Giant farts, too?

Me: That’s where the “fum” comes in.

A: “Fee fie foe phew.”

Me: “I smell the butt of an English dude.”

When I was a kid in the ’50s toy stores and dime stores often had spin racks of magic tricks at the checkstand.