MAGIC WORDS • Simsalabim-baum -- Henriette Kress (1995) • Simsalabim, simsalabim, oooh salabim, sim sim sim salabim -- Bill Hicks, Love All the People: Letters, Lyrics, Routines (2004) • Sim sala dim, bam ba sala du sala dim This is from a traditional folksong entitled "Auf einem Baum ein Kuckuk." • Sim sim alla bim and all that $#¡† -- Professional magician Frank Cannella ("The Great Frankie Raymond") • Sim sim sala beem "Her words were not familiar to me as she said sim sim sala beem. We all repeated, again sim sim sala beem. After what seemed like twenty minutes of repeating these odd words and phrases, mom stopped. I felt a cold gust of winter air blow down my spine. I found this unbelievable as it was a hot August evening." -- WowEssays.com (2005) • Sim sim salabim, sim sim salabim -- James E. Churches, Pirates of the Potomac (2004) • Zim Salabim -- Marie-Dominique Crapon, Sloughi (2004) • Zim Za La Bim "I've always found 'zim za la bim' an amusing and somewhat magical phrase." -- Professional magician Fitzgerald, personal correspondence (2005), FitzgeraldComedy.com • Zim Zala Bim, Bombbooz Zala Dim -- Chautae Repartee, "Harry Potter Goes to Amsterdam" (2001) In Literature: • "The water faucet and sink was the other Zauberei or magic in our new home. All one had to do was turn the handle, and Simsalabim! -- abracadabra! -- water came rushing out of the pipes." -- Elizabeth B. Walter, Barefoot in the Rubble (1997) • "Social constructions of difference and Otherness are -- abracadabra, hocus- pocus, simsalabim -- transformed to appear in the guise of the natural, of the given and immutable, of unquestionable and undeniable facts, of categorical truth(-claim)s that cannot be otherwise." -- Allan Richard Pred, Even in Sweden (2000) • "'Sim sala bim!' said Beezel [in response to a newspaper's bad review of a magic show]. 'What does it mean, 'a faulty start'?'" -- Pam Smallcomb, Trimoni Twins and the Changing Coin (2004)