When I was a kid, my father taught me how to play poker, but as a word of warning quoted Damon Runyon:
One of these days in your travels, a guy is going to come up to you and show you a nice brand-new deck of cards on which the seal is not yet broken, and this guy is going to offer to bet you that he can make the Jack of Spades jump out of the deck and squirt cider in your ear. But, son, do not bet this man, for as sure as you are standing there, you are going to end up with an earful of cider.

Here's a little cider-in-the-ear trick that I wish I had known about back when I was a bartender:

http://krampf.com/experiments/Science_Experiment11.html

Thanks for that link. It will keep my daughter busy for awhile. Incidentally, motivation gurus will tell you: impossible = i + am + possible.
Sounds rhetorical but true.