Subject: The Captain's Parrot
From: Unicorn (unicorn@indenial.com)
Date: Sun Oct 14 2001 - 15:17:19 EDT
"Smart Bird?"
His mother was now living in Miami Beach, and
the young man didn't see her that often. His father
was no longer around and he was worried that
Mom was lonely. For her birthday, he purchased
a rare parrot, trained to speak seven languages.
He had a courier deliver the bird to his dear mother.
A few days later, he called. "Ma, what do you think
of the bird?"
"The bird was good, but a little tough. I should have
cooked it longer."
"You ate the bird?!? Ma, the bird was very expensive.
It spoke seven languages!"
"Oh, excuse me. But, if the bird was so smart, why
didn't it say something when I put it in the oven?"
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"The Captain's Parrot"
A magician was working on a cruise ship in the
Caribbean. The audience would be 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 the middle of the show:
"Look, it's not the same hat."
"Look, he is 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 ocean
with the parrot, of course.
They stared at each other with hate, but did not utter a word.
This went on for a day and another and another.
After a week the parrot said: "OK, I give up. Where's the
boat?"
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