A Magician and His Parrot
Jokester
A magician on a cruise liner had a parrot, who'd seen all the magician's
tricks a jillion times, long ago having figured out how the magician made
everything in the act disappear.
The parrot grew to be bored shitless, his owner growing stale and not
developing any new tricks that the parrot could figure out.
One night in the middle of the magician's performance, the ship hit an iceberg
and sank. Everyone drowned except the magician and the parrot. The magician
managed to swim to a piece of wreckage and climb aboard, immediately
collapsing from exhaustion.
Soon afterward, the parrot flew to the magician and perched on the edge of the
makeshift raft and stared at the magician. And stared. And stared.
For a whole day the magician was unconscious, and all this time the parrot
didn't take his eyes off him. Eventually the magician started to stir. Looking
up, he saw the parrot, still eyeing him intently, not even blinking.
Another hour goes by, and finally the parrot squawks, "Awright, I give up.
What did you do with the goddamn ship?"
