A magician was working on a cruise ship, and as the audience was different each week, he could get away with doing the same tricks over and over again.
But there was one problem. The captain's parrot saw the shows each week and began to understand how all the tricks worked. Once he’d worked it out, he started shouting out in the middle of the show "Look, it's not the same hat!" or, "Look, he's hiding the flowers under the table," or "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 one morning the alarms started sounding, the ship was filling up with water and sinking!!!
The magician abandoned ship and found himself on his own in a lifeboat in the middle of the sea!
After a while he dozed off, but was woken up by the frantic flapping of wings! As fate would have it, it was the captain’s parrot; it circled a couple of times then landed exhausted in the boat.
The magician and the parrot glared at each other with hatred, but did not utter a word to each other. Days went by; still they didn’t speak until after the 5th day the parrot finally said,
"OK, I give up. Where's the ****ing ship?"
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