Joke #9 - Just Buy a Hare.

A magician walks into a magic shop.

He glances around at all the musty old familiar curiosities of a bygone era: a large chromed foo can; an canvas straitjacket with suspiciously long sleeves; a gaudy silk cabinet with fake oriental characters on it. A kid behind a counter is badgering a customer to "Pick a card -- any card!". Then the magician notices a small plastic figurine of a rabbit in a top hat. It has no price tag, but it is so cute that he decides he must have it.

He asks the kid behind the counter, "How much for that stature of a rabbit in the hat?"

The kid replies, "It's not a statue, it's a trick! Twenty dollars with an instructional DVD."

"I don't need the instructions. To me it's just an ornament. It'll look good in my magic den. I'll give you fifteen bucks for it -- and you can keep the instructions!" Since the hat and rabbit had been languishing on the shelf for months, the kid agrees to sell it without the DVD.

The magician walks out of the store with his prize under his arm, and walks merrily down the street. He begins to notice a few stray jackrabbits following him. Startled, he walks a bit faster. But a few blocks later he is stunned to see several dozen vicious-looking wild rabbits hopping behind him. He panics and runs madly off in all directions, only to see more and more crazed-looking rabbits, seemingly popping out of nowhere, and racing after him at top speed.

Now in full gallop, the magician runs frantically towards a bridge spanning a large river. He scrambles out onto the bridge with the rabbits right behind him in hot pursuit, now in the thousands. Figuring the ornament from the magic shop is jinxed, he tosses it into the river. He's suddenly astonished to see a 'million' crazed rabbits jump into the river after it! They all drown. It's a ghastly sight.

Thoroughly relieved, the magician staggers back to the magic shop, determined to get an explanation for this nightmare.

"Ah ha!" says the kid behind the counter, "You've come back for the instructions!"

"Hell no!" says the rumpled and haggard magician, gasping for breath and wiping sweat from his brow, "I came back to see if you have any clowns in a hat!"
 

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