The magician pulls the cylinder out of the box and shows the audience that there is clearly nothing inside the cylinder

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There are several additional methods described in this PDF

hospitality suites and cocktail parties

No Tear Pad (Medium, A5, Tear/No Tear Alternating) | Alan Wong Marcelo The magician pulls the cylinderThe Tear No Tear Pad offers you a pre assembled normal looking plain note pad with alternate tear (normal paper) and no tear (non tearable composite paper). It comes with a professional comedy working routine 'The Kid's A Magician' generously given here by Wayne Dobson. You can adapt a lot of different topics into this with a 'Do as I do' routine. The Tear No Tear Pad is well known to be Paul Gordon's original idea who first marketed the pads in 1999