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Thursday, September 13, 2007

[nilesfunnies] Fw: Just parrots

Just parrots
A magician worked on a cruise ship in the Caribbean.

The audience was different each week, so the magician allowed himself to
do the same tricks over and over again.

There was only 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 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.

One day the ship had an accident and 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. On the third day, the parrot could not hold back: "OK, I give up. Where's the boat?