There isn't enough fun on this group :-)

[**Rowland Croucher**]

Parrot on the Titanic

The Titanic, on her maiden voyage, just set sail from the shores of
England. It was the most magnificent ship ever built, and everybody is
very excited. No expense has been spared - the vast dining rooms,
casinos, hundreds of neatly groomed waiters and polite service staff,
string quartets, the works.

Every night at the bar, they had this magician come on and perform the
most wonderfully amazing tricks of conjury the world had ever seen. It's
the first night of the voyage, and everyone is eager to see this great
man at work, except there was one slight problem. There was this parrot,
who'd sit on the bar top by the peanuts, and ruin each trick as the
magician performed them. Each time, the parrot would sit quietly until
the trick was almost completed, and say things like, "Squark! It's up
his sleeve!" or "Sqeeek! He's hidden it in the hat!" etc., and ruin the
trick for the magician.

Every time, the parrot would do this, and the magician would get madder
and madder as the night wore on.

The same happened on the next night, and the one after that. The
magician would shake with fury at this silly parrot ruining his world
famous show. He spent his days devising even better and more
stupendously amazing tricks in an effort to fool this bloody parrot.

One night, the magician is about to perform his greatest trick of the
voyage. The lights are dimmed, a hushed silence sweeps across the bar
floor, a drum roll builds up to a mighty crescendo as the magician
performs his final piece de resistance....and suddenly the ship hits an
iceberg and sinks...

For three days, the magician manages to cling to a door floating around
in the wreckage, starving, thirsty. On the third day, he notices at the
other end of the door, the parrot, sitting calmly and quietly, staring
back at him. For three more days the magician just glowers at him, not
saying a word - bitter, hushed, resentful, silence.

...Until one day, the parrot can't contain himself any longer and squarks,
"Alright! I give up! What have you done with the ship?!"

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[Walter Ellison]

I was expecting something different. I guess that's what made it funny.
This has been an intense Christian day for me so I am amazed that this is
the first post that I read worthy of a response, ever.

Walt

Post by **Rowland Croucher**
Parrot on the Titanic
The Titanic, on her maiden voyage, just set sail from the shores of
England. It was the most magnificent ship ever built, and everybody is
very excited. No expense has been spared - the vast dining rooms, casinos,
hundreds of neatly groomed waiters and polite service staff, string
quartets, the works.
Every night at the bar, they had this magician come on and perform the
most wonderfully amazing tricks of conjury the world had ever seen. It's
the first night of the voyage, and everyone is eager to see this great man
at work, except there was one slight problem. There was this parrot, who'd
sit on the bar top by the peanuts, and ruin each trick as the magician
performed them. Each time, the parrot would sit quietly until the trick
was almost completed, and say things like, "Squark! It's up his sleeve!"
or "Sqeeek! He's hidden it in the hat!" etc., and ruin the trick for the
magician.
Every time, the parrot would do this, and the magician would get madder
and madder as the night wore on.
The same happened on the next night, and the one after that. The magician
would shake with fury at this silly parrot ruining his world famous show.
He spent his days devising even better and more stupendously amazing
tricks in an effort to fool this bloody parrot.
One night, the magician is about to perform his greatest trick of the
voyage. The lights are dimmed, a hushed silence sweeps across the bar
floor, a drum roll builds up to a mighty crescendo as the magician
performs his final piece de resistance....and suddenly the ship hits an
iceberg and sinks...
For three days, the magician manages to cling to a door floating around in
the wreckage, starving, thirsty. On the third day, he notices at the other
end of the door, the parrot, sitting calmly and quietly, staring back at
him. For three more days the magician just glowers at him, not saying a
word - bitter, hushed, resentful, silence.
...Until one day, the parrot can't contain himself any longer and squarks,
"Alright! I give up! What have you done with the ship?!"
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Shalom/Salaam/Pax! Rowland Croucher
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