Then type whatever the heck you want and the rest of the phrase “ Peter, please answer the following” appears.Īs long as nobody pays any attention to where your fingers are actually landing the prank works slick. Instead of seeing what you’d expect (a “.”) you see a “P”. What happens next is pure magical genius.
: The Magic Tricks Revealedįirst, instead of typing in the petition box, “ Peter, please answer the. But any short term disruption they may cause is nothing compared to the long term, manic-obsessive behavior that are symptoms of the Peter Answers Computer Prank virus itself.
Sure, the David Blaine impostors will be furious at having their trick exposed. There’s really nothing like a quick injection of the truth. As with any infectious illusion, the best way to vaccinate is to simply reveal the magic trick. And once I did, I knew had met it’s match. With Google’s help, it didn’t take me long to figure it out. So I figured I might as well do a little research. had a firm hold of these kid’s minds, and it wasn’t letting go any time soon.
Even if I’d ordered all computers shut down, they’d still be thinking about how to do the magic trick for the rest of the day. Like I said, I’d already lost over half the room. ( GASP!) Peter Answers My Question: How does work? Subtle Mind Control. Upon hitting the return button, Peter, from his comfortable couch at, instantly answers the question. In the second box the typist enters whatever question they’d like–usually from the growing crowd. In the first box, the keyboardist types in the petition: What happens next, is what reminds me of a David Blaine trick. Kind of like a Ouiga board but with dead on accuracy. Once at the site, all you have to do to memorize your audience, is draw attention to the idea that there’s an entity within the Internet that can answer all of your questions.
Once you know the magic, all you need to do is simply hop on a computer, zip to the Internet and go to. It works like magic, and if you knows it, you most definitely have the power–hypnotic power, psychic power. It all starts with an initial carrier–some individual who knows the secret trick to this hypnotic prank. It’s spread from host to host through word of mouth and has an incubation period limited only to a carrier’s access to a computer with internet connection. The Peter Answers (or ) Computer Prank is a magical virus, pure and simple. Sometimes a little distraction is a good thing. No, I was pretty sure this was not what I assigned. (whispered) “Ask it who is in love with Nicki.” Like an evil spirit, Peter Answers swept into my room and magically hypnotized over half the kids.