[Thanks to Tom.]
A magician worked on a cruise ship. The audience was different each week, so the magician did the same tricks over and over again.
One problem: The captain's parrot saw the shows each week and began to understand how the magician did every trick.
Once he understood, he started shouting in the middle of the show: "Look, it's not the same hat!"
"Look, he's hiding the flowers under the table."
"Hey, why are all the cards the ace of spades?"
The magician was furious but couldn't do anything. It was, after all, the captain's parrot. Then the ship sank.
The magician found himself on a piece of wood in the middle of the sea with, as fate would have it, the parrot.
They stared at each other with hatred but did not utter a word. This went on for a day and then another and then another.
Finally on the fourth day, the parrot could not hold back: "OK, I give up. Where's the friggin' ship?"
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Funny thing is, my dad told this joke 40 years ago, in a variation. In that version, the parrot always yelled "he's got it up his sleeve, he's got it up his sleeve!" And in the final line it said: "OK, I give up. You lost your shirt. So where's the ship?
CUTE!! :-)
ReplyDeleteDidn't the magician do the same tricks over and over? Didn't the parrot know how he did the tricks? - a smart parrot, it seems. So why does it think that he has a new trick, a trick that loses a ship?! Am I thinking too much or what? I just don't like the jokes that overlook everything for the sake of a so-called nifty punch line. Sorry.
ReplyDeleteMaybe the parrot was not as smart as he thought himself.
ReplyDeleteA rabbi, a blonde and a platypus enter a bar in Nebraska. The bartender looks at them, and says:
ReplyDelete"What's this, some kind of joke?"