Tennyson Geyer tells of the minister who was getting senile, but didn’t need notes very often. He kept his notes in the inside pocket of his coat but rarely referred to them. He was preaching on the creation this particular Sunday and said, “Adam and Eve had a son and his name was…uh, his name was…” He opened his coat, peered in and said, “J.C. Penny.”
Two cats watched a mouse go by on roller skates. “Look,” one cat said, “Meals on wheels.”
A man from the east was driving his new Mercedes to Mammoth, California, to go skiing. His first night out, he met a young colored man going to the same place, but getting there on a pair of roller skates.
“You’ll never get there on skates,” said the easterner. “Why don’t you ride with me?”
The black man said, “No, I have to skate, it’s a bet.”
The first man said, “I’ve got it, I have a piece of rope, you hang on and I’ll pull you and you’ll make good time.”
The skater said, “You’re bound to go too fast for me.”
“I have a whistle, if I go too fast, you blow the whistle.”
They started out and for a while all went fine. On the third day, as they were approaching Salt Lake City, here came a guy in a Porsche, who slowed down to see what was going on. He passed the driver of the Mercedes who started picking up speed. A traffic officer radioed the next town.
“You won’t believe this, but approaching you are two cars, a Porsche and a Mercedes doing 97 M.P.H. and a ghost on roller skates blowing a whistle trying to pass them both.”
