A True Story, but that still doesn't make it interesting...

A 10 year old boy, sitting in the celebrity hypnotist's audience, raised his hand when the call went out for volunteers. He was among those chosen.

The volunteers were dutifully "hypnotized" and the first "trick" played on them was to be told that they were seated in a theater, watching a Mickey Mouse cartoon. They were told it was hilarious and they all dutifully laughed. Then they were told that Minne Mouse had been hit by a car; how sad!! They all cried.

Then there were individual "tricks." One comely young lady was told to become stiff as a board. Her head was placed on one chair and her heels on another chair. The hypnotist then put a towel over her midriff and stood on her. Applause, applause, applause.

When it was the 10 year old's turn, he was brought to the front of the stage. He was 'put under' again and told to put his right index finger on the tip of this nose. He was instructed that under no condition was he to remove the finger from his nose. He was then told to "awaken." The hypnotist then started an innocuous conversation with the youth. After a couple of questions, the hypnotist asked the boy why he had his finger on his nose. The boy answered, "I don't know." The hypnotist suggested that the boy remove the finger. The boy did so.

As one, the members of the audience rose and cheered! They then stormed the stage; two husky men tried to lift the boy onto their shoulders. But the boy, obviously in tune with the massively heterosexual future that awaited him, destained the husky men and chose instead to mount (the shoulders of) a terrifically zaftig mafia moll. (This all took place in Las Vegas, at the old Thunderbird Hotel.) The young boy was paraded about the room, all to the immense discomfort of the celebrity hypnotist. But all the boy remembers after that is looking down from his mount and seeing her belly button, framed by the lacy-ness of a brassiere under the kind of gravity load that makes men believe in God. (Which the boy never did, but he could always understand the temptation to do so.)

So there ya go.

Most of the events of this story are indeed true. To this day, the boy has never been hypnotized and zaftig women still appeal to him.