The Titanic!! (sort of)
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Loading ...On a cruise ship touring the Mediterranean, there was a magician who would perform a cabaret act every night in the ship’s bar. Now, also in that bar, there was a parrot, who from his vantage point near the ceiling could see exactly how each trick was done.
Every night was the same. Everytime he performed a trick the parrot would yell to the audience how the trick was done:
“It’s up his sleeve!”
or
“Look under the table!”
The magician was furious, but as the parrot was a pet of the captain himself, there was nothing he could do.
As it happened, one night, as the magician announced he was about to perform his grand finale, a fault developed in the ship’s engine room and the whole ship blew up, shattering into a million pieces.
As the dust settled, a cruel twist of fate meant that the magician was left sitting on a piece of the smashed boat, and who should be on the far side of the very same raft, but the parrot.
For weeks and weeks they sat, each staring at the other, and neither spoke even a single word.
After a long time, the parrot finally cleared its throat and spoke, “Alright, I give up. What have you done with the ship?”