The Amazing Claude

It was opening night at the Orpheum and The Amazing Claude was  topping the bill. People came from miles 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 this audience."

The excitement was  almost electric as Claude withdrew a beautiful antique pocket watch  from his coat.  "I want every one of you to keep your eye on this antique watch. It's a very special watch. It's 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