When I reached the cockpit, somebody looked through the magic eye (at me) and I told him that I had two hand grenades.

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It turns out that when viewed as a Magic Eye poster, Pitbull and those 25 backup Slinkys of his looked like Howie Mandel and his Deal or No Deal human props.

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Was it was one of those magic eye pictures?

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If you have too much going on in a room, you lose the magic and your eye becomes anaesthetized.

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But though the picture lies thus tranced, and though this pine-tree shakes down its sighs like leaves upon this shepherd's head, yet all were vain, unless the shepherd's eye were fixed upon the magic stream before him.

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When we asked how such a thing could be possible, we got hints about some fairy magic creative engineering that employs similar visual cues that your eye processes when you look at anything.

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If that weren't enough, the FE-5020 and FE-4000 also include "Magic Filter" functionality (which some might call "tacky filters, " if the fish eye lens and sepia tone effects aren't really your bag).

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