The hypnotist

Mrs. Smith came home from her Ladies meeting at the Church. She was very excited, and explained to her husband that the guest at the meeting had been a wonderful hypnotist. Mr. Smith then mentioned that attendance was down at the Sunday services. Maybe they should hire the hypnotist to bring in a crowd. He talked it over with the vicar, who, suprisingly thought it was a terrific idea. After lots of publicizing, the church was filled for the Sunday service. The hypnotist withdrew a pocket watch. As the crowd observed, mesmerized, the hypnotist began, “Watch the watch. Watch the watch. Watch the watch.” The congregants carefully observed, their eyes following the sway of the watch. “Vatch the vatch,” the hypnotist continued. Then, accidentally, the watch fell out of his hand. “****!” he cried. Took them three weeks to clean up the church…