Bar Tricks 2
Bar Trick # 6 Salt & Pepper
Ingredients: 1 victim, 1 salt packet, 1 pepper packet, and 1 small plastic comb.
Objective: To get a free drink.
Situation: Make a small hill of salt on the bar, about the size of a quarter. Then sprinkle a small amount of pepper on top of the salt. Bet your victim one drink that they can not get the pepper off, without disturbing the salt.
Solution: Take your plastic comb and comb your hair a few times. Then hold the comb over the salt & pepper. The static electricity will suck the pepper off the salt.
Note: This trick will only work when the humidity levels are low.
Bar Trick # 7 Sugar Cubes
Ingredients: 1 victim, 2 sugar cubes, 1 lighter, and 1 ash tray.
Objective: To get a free drink.
Situation: Hand someone a sugar cube and a lighter. Bet them a drink that they can not light the sugar cube on fire. They will try to light it on fire by putting the flame under it. They will get the cube to smoke, char and smolder but it will not catch on fire.
Solution: Rub your sugar cube in an ashtray to get some ashes on it. Hold the flame to the sugar cube, it should light right up.
Note: Practice this a few times before you start placing bets.
Bar Trick # 8 Ice Cubes
Ingredients: 1 victim, 2 ice cubes, some salt, and 2 pieces of human hair (about 6 to 8 inches long).
Objective: To get a free drink.
Situation: Bet someone they can not pick up an ice cube with one piece of human hair. The average person will try to twist and tie the hair around the ice cube. Others will try to just lift it up. However, they will not be able to get the ice cube off the bar.
Solution: Place the ice cube on the bar, take a strand of human hair and place it across the top of the ice cube. Then, take a little salt and sprinkle it on top of the hair and ice cube. The salt will cause the ice cube to re-freeze around the hair. In a few seconds you will be able to gently lift the ice cube off of the bar.
Note: Practice this a few times before you start placing bets.
Bar Trick # 9 The Switch
Ingredients: 2 identical shot glasses, 1 non-porous piece of paper (playing card, over-sized match book, etc.), water, and your choice of alcohol (bourbon, scotch, etc.)
Objective: Challenge your friends.
Situation: Fill one shot glass with water and the other with, lets say, bourbon. The challenge is to get the bourbon in the glass that has the water and the water in the glass that has the bourbon without using any other containers including your mouth (or anyone else's mouth).
Solution: Place the non-porous piece of paper (playing card) on-top of the shot of water. Turn the card and water shot upside down carefully. The paper will stay attached to the shot on its own accord.
Now, place the water shot glass and card on the shot of bourbon. Slowly and carefully pull the paper out just far enough to make a very small opening between the two glasses. Water, being heavier than alcohol will flow to the bourbon glass and displace the bourbon into the water glass. You have just made the switch.
If you are truly skilled at this bar trick, you will be able to replace the paper between the two shot glasses and remove the bourbon and put it back on the bar.
Note: Make sure the opening between the glasses is very small. A large opening will cause the water and alcohol to mix.
Bar Trick # 10 Smoke on the water
Ingredients: 1 glass, a matchbook, six quarters, and an ashtray with water.
Objective: Get a free drink.
Situation: Bet your friends one drink that you can get the water out of the ashtray using only the ingredients mentioned and without moving or tilting the ashtray.
Solution: Make sure ashtray is filled with at most a quarter inch of water. Stack the quarters in the center of the ashtray so the top two quarters are above the water. Place four unlit matches on top of the quarters. Light the matches and immediately cover the flame and quarters with the glass. The water will be drawn into the glass. Collect your bets.
Bar Trick # 11 The Wish in a Bottle
Ingredients: 1 newly emptied bottle of Grand Marnier, a matchbook, a cork, a straw, and a sword cocktail pick.
Objective: To play with fire while making a wish.
Situation: Get your friends to make a wish. Tell them if the sword sticks in the ceiling then their wish will come true.
Solution: Take a newly emptied Grand Marnier bottle and put a cork in it. Place the bottle under hot water for about 10 minutes. While the bottle is heating, take a straw and bend it in half. Take you sword pick and stick it through the fold in the straw. The straw should be folded back over the handle of the sword pick.
When the bottle is ready, carefully remove the cork so the heated gas in the bottle does not escape. Quickly put the straw and the sword in the bottle with the tip of the sword pick pointing out the opening of the bottle. Make a wish and drop a match in the bottle.
Warning: There will be a large flame and the straw and the sword pick will be forced out the bottle. KEEP your face and others away from the opening.
If the straw sticks in the ceiling then your wish comes true. If the straw does not stick, tell someone to buy you a drink for your troubles. If you do not get a flame, you have to buy everyone else drinks.
Bar Trick # 12 Blow the Bottle
Ingredients: 1 empty beer bottle, and a small piece of napkin.
Objective: Get a free drink.
Situation: Hold an empty beer bottle horizontally. (Make sure inside of neck is dry.) Tear off a small piece of napkin, wad it up into a small ball. Place the napkin wad just inside the lip of the bottle. Hold the bottle in front of someone's face, and bet them a drink that they can not blow the napkin into the bottle.
Solution: Bernoulli principle states that moving air has lower pressure than still air. Therefore, when your friend blows, the still air in the bottle will push the napkin out of the bottle, right back at the face of the blower.
Note: The harder they blow, the faster the napkin will come out. If you get a really gullible person, you can have them try again for a chance at another drink. You should be able to milk them for at least 3 or 4.
A truly great bartender also has some pretty funny jokes to share. Warning: some of these jokes may be rude, crude, raunchy, and controversial. Now, THATS what makes a great bartender!
Bar Jokes
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