A magician worked on a cruise ship. The audience was different each week. So 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 begin to understand how the magician did every trick. Once he understood, he started squawking, "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 about it. After all, it was the Captain's parrot.

One stormy night the ship began to sink, leaving survivors floating in the water. As luck would have it the magician and the parrot found themselves floating on the same piece of wood. The magician and the parrot stared at each other angrily for 3 days and did not say a word.

Finally, on the 4th day, the parrot could not keep quiet any longer and said to the magician, "OK, I give up, where did you put the ship?"