 It
was opening night at the Orpheum and the Amazing Claude
was topping
the bill. People came from kilometers around to see the famed
hypnotist do
his stuff. As Claude took to the stage, he announced,
"Unlike most
stage
hypnotists who invite two or three people up onto the
stage to be
put into
a trance, I intend to hypnotize each and every member of
the audience."
The excitement was almost
electric as Claude withdrew a beautiful
antique French pocket watch from his coat.
"I
want you each to keep your eye on this antique watch. It's
a very
special watch. Its been in my family
for six generations."
He
began to swing the watch gently back and forth while
quietly
chanting, "Watch the watch, watch the watch, watch the
watch..."
The
crowd became mesmerized as the watch swayed back and
forth, light
gleaming off its polished surface.
 Hundreds
of pairs of eyes followed the swaying watch, until
suddenly it
slipped from the hypnotist's fingers and fell to the
floor, breaking
into a hundred pieces.
"Shit!" said the hypnotist.
It
took three weeks to clean up the theater.
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