Oh, definitely the power of suggestion:
Panhandler: Gimme some change
Broomstick: You don’t really want to ask me for money
Panhandler: I don’t want ask you for money
Broomstick: You want to take a bath… Lake Michigan is over there
Pandhandler: I’m going to go over there and take a bath
Telemarketer: Hi! I have a GREAT opportunity for –
Broomstick: Your job really sucks
Telemarketer: Hey, this job really sucks
Broomstick: Welfare would be preferable
Telemarketer: I’d rather be on welfare
Broomstick: Go back to school… a community college, maybe
Telemarketer: I think maybe I’ll go back to community college…
FAA: We have a report you violated airspace over Mayor Daley’s townhouse in Chicago, dropping toilet paper and whoopie cushions over the neighborhood.
Broomstick: You never received that notice
FAA: Sorry, ma’am, there seems to have been a mistake…
Broomstick: You should delete that erroneous information
FAA: I’ll have to go back to the district office and fix this.
Broomstick: It was that pilot over there, Fat Bastard, and his friend, Jerkezoid
FAA: I’m really sorry, I can’t imagine how I read “Fat Bastard” as “Broomstick”…
Broomstick: Apologize one more time.
(Scene of abject groveling ensues…)