READ FOR FUN 9

A magician was working on a cruise ship in the Caribbean, since the audience would be different each week, 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 every week and began to understand what the magician did in every trick. Once he understood that, he started shouting in the middle of the show ...

"Look, it"s not the same hat!" 

"Look, he"s 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 the captain"s parrot after all.

One day the ship had an accident and sank. The magician found himself on a piece of wood, in the middle of the ocean, and of course the parrot was by his side.

They stared at each other with hate, but did not utter a word. This went on for several days. After a week the parrot finally said, "Okay, I give up. What"d you do with the boat?"

A businessman boarded a plane to find, sitting next to him, an elegant woman wearing the largest, most stunning diamond ring he had ever seen. He asked her about it.

"This is the Klopman diamond," she said. "It is beautiful, but there"s a terrible curse that goes with it."

"What"s the curse?" the man asked.

"Mr. Klopman."

A prison warden makes a final inspection of the electric chair as a man from death row is scheduled to die later that day. He is alarmed to find there are several faults, so he calls for an electrician.

When the electrician arrives he assures the warden that everything can be fixed, but it will take five hours. The warden heaves a sigh of relief because this means the execution can go ahead as planned. Five hours later the warden returns to find the electric chair in pieces and the electrician whistling as he works. "I thought you assured me everything would be fixed in five hours," says the warden. 

"It’s a good thing you called out an experienced electrician like me," replied the man. "This thing is a death trap!"