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Abie, a somewhat shy and retiring gentleman who lives a bit southwest,
sent this one...

A magician was working on a cruise ship.

Since the audience was different each week, the magician did 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, the parrot started shouting in the middle of the show:
"Look, it's not the same hat!" or, "Look, he's hiding the flowers under the
table!" Or "Hey, why are all the cards the ace of spades?"

The magician was furious but really couldn't do anything. It was, after all,
the captain's' parrot.

Then one stormy night on the Pacific, the ship unfortunately sank, drowning
almost all who were on board.

The magician luckily found himself on a piece of wood floating in the middle
of the sea, as fate would have it ... With the parrot.

They stared at each other with hatred, but did not utter a word.

This went on for a day... And then 2 days. And then 3 days. Finally on the
4th day, the parrot could not hold back any longer and said...

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