A man walks into a bar and tells the bartender, "I got a deal for ya." The bartender, interested, gives him a glance. "If I can show you something that completely amazes you, you give me drinks for free all night." At first, the bartender just laughs. But then he decides to go with it. So the man goes back outside and brings in a box. He pulls out a mini piano and sets it on the counter. Then he pulls out a seat and a frog and sets those in front of the piano. Then he pulls out a rat and places it on top of the piano. The frog starts playing a song and the rat starts singing and dancing to it. Completely amazed, the bartender starts pouring drinks for this man.
Few hours and one completely wasted man later, a talent agent walks into the bar. He spots the frog and rat performing their act and runs to the bartender. "Sir, how much for that act!" The bartender shakes his head and points at the man at the end of the counter.
"Belongs to him," he said. So the talent agent rushes over to the drunk and shakes him to get his attention.
"Sir, I'll give you one million dollars for that act over there!"
The drunk shrugs the talent agent's hand off him and mutters, "Not for sale." Upset, the talent agent starts to leave. "Wait a minute," the man slurred. "How about a quarter of a mil for the rat?" Ecstatic, the travel agent pulls out his check book and writes the man his check. He grabs the rat and runs off with it. The bartender turns stares at the drunk in disbelief.
"What the hell! You had a million dollar act! You could have become rich with those two! Why would you sell him that rat?!" The drunk snickers and says,
"It's fine. The frog's a ventriloquist."