" You, erm, your name is ..." ( ERM?) This is a sentence from a book I'm reading: " You, erm, your name is ... no don't tell me, er. steve? " What is the meaning of "erm" & "er." ? Thanks in advance, Tom

You're welcome VS You are welcome "You're welcome to come and see the flat tomorrow " Is it correct?

Card magic I'm going to share with you some magician's secrets, but first please just say stop whenever you like.. ( I riffle the cards ) RIght here? are you sure? Ok, please take your card, remember it and show everybody, I will not look ( spectator showing the card ) and again, just say stop whenever you like .. ( I'm putting piles of cards on the table ) please put you card here ... and now it's lost in the deck, right? fair, isn't it? ... Have you ever heard about marked deck? I will teach you how to spot the marking, but please do not tell anyone, promise? Ok, fine :) I'm afraid that the lighting here is not the best ... the mark should looks like .... THIS! ( showing blue card in the middle of red deck ) Can you see it? really? nice! and what was the name of your card? ( flipping the card - spectator go wild ) Wow, splendid! ( putting the card aside ) I'm going to break another magician rule : "Never do a trick twice". So, do you want to see it again? :) Please say stop, remember your card, and now, in the second time, your card will be the odd one in the deck, now you know how to spot the marking... ( spreading the deck on the table, can't find the odd card ) oh, s**t, hmmmm, What was the name of your card? sometimes, even I can't understand this ... ( taking one step back from the table ) please turn the blue card ... ( the first card has changed to the second one! ) Please keep the secret with you.

ESP - mentalism routine Have you ever heard about ESP? it's means Extrasensory perception. The term was adopted by Duke University psychologist J. B. Rhine to denote psychic abilities such as telepathy, clairaudience, and clairvoyance. ESP is also sometimes casually referred to as a sixth sense, gut instinct or hunch. A simple set of cards was developed, originally called Zener cards, I have a set of them here, They bear the symbols circle, square, wavy lines, cross, and star. ( showing cards with those symbols ) Five red cards for you, we will see their faces later, and five blue cards for me. We are going to do a little test in ESP, There are going to be two phases, the first one should tell me about the way you are thinking and I hope the second will be amazing. Please just think, in your mind only, about one of this shapes ... Are you thinking about the star? Really? great! This simple shapes are containing a lot of psychological Information about human behavior, you cal tell about somebody that "he is a square" ; down to earth and sometimes even a nerd, some people always wants to be the stars or to be in somewhere else, far away. some people are easygoing like the wavy lines, some are living in a loop of life or they are just round people - Sociable and nice. the cross can represent faith or positive thinking... Please shuffle your cards without seeing their faces. ( we are shuffling the cards ) And deal them in a row on the table. Now I know a little bit about you ( I put one blue card on top of the red row ) I have committed to one symbol, please choose one card of yours, which one do you want to give me? ( the spectator gives me one red card ) I gave you the star, let's check yours ... also the star! brilliant, you have the ESP! But I know what you are thinking, I never let you to see the faces of your cards, maybe all of them are the star ... right? you can check them ( the spectator flips all the cards and find out written on them that says : " Please choose the star! " ) Thanks you, you did a wonderful job!