Wednesday 18 January 2012

Cruise

"There's a cruise ship doing a weekly jaunt around the Carribean and among the entertainers on board there is a conjurer. As there is a new group of passengers each week, he doesn't feel the need to come up with any new material and as the season goes on, he just repeats the same act over and over. Now the Captain had a parrot which was kept in the Ballroom where the conjurer performed and, after a few weeks, he'd worked out all the tricks and took to spoiling them by shouting out the answers - "The card's up his sleeve!" "It's the Ace of Spades!" and so on. The conjurer dearly wanted to throttle that bird but, as I say, it was the Captain's parrot...........

Now it so happened that they ran into a tropical storm and the ship sank. The conjurer barely escaped with his life, but was able to find a life raft and floated away on his own. Well, not quite on his own because flapping out of the storm came the Captain's parrot and landed on the other side of the raft, fixing him with its beady eyes. For three days they floated on the ocean alone; the conjurer glared at that bird and the bird stared right back. Neither said a word. On the fourth day, the parrot broke the silence -

"OK, I give up. Where's the freaking ship?!"

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