I'd like to call somebody to the stage that you know as a folk But that you haven't met in his role
Paul is a comedian with a unique of view and commentary And in capacity, ladies and gentlemen Please welcome with me to the stage, my friend My compatriot, Stookey
That was the of a golf ball Or if you're a ping-pong enthusiast, that was a of a ping-pong ball Except generally hear
the sound of a match between a golfer and a ping-pong enthusiast
I golf today, 18 holes I played golf, wooo I did pretty good too, I think you would have very proud of me Four. Five. Six
I don't sports very much There's a number of sports that I'm not invlved in. There's water In order to water ski, you should swim, right? You're not gonna up there all the time, now And I don't to swim, really You know swimming is to me? Staying when I'm in the water. I'll do anything to stay Even Co2 cartriges
But I didn't come out here to talk about I really, I out here, Peter talks about status And I cannot think of one material that has more status in this country the automobile And it starts at a early age now, right? I mean, now at 14, kids want the car, They get permits so they can drive You get a learners permit at 15, a cheaters at 14 And it's, I guess it's really necessary You lose a lot of face calling up a and asking her If you can peddle right over and pick her up,
They don't really go for that any And if you look on all the times you had the automobile Aside from a few saturday evenings You got to admit one of the nicest times of all Was a sunday afternoon, if you get the car You come the stairs, ker-clunk ker-clunk ker-clunk ker-clunk mom, dad, take the car, ha haaa day for a drive, I think I'll go out Ha haaa ha huuu
And then, and then they level you that giant killer, right? HAVE YOU YOUR HOMEWORK?
If you fast, you'd say, mom, dad, have I done my homework? Run out the You pick up 3 other great pretenders, 3 in the afternoon The time is now 10 oclock in the The same 4 guys are in the car Well, whata you do? I don't know, whada you do? Hey, we've been for 7 hours Hey, I got an idea, he he Yeah, what's go to a drive-in resturant and look at the girls, hehehe Oh, ok Well, here are, but they're all from our high school a minute, there's a car load over there There's a right next to them, lets go get it
look at 'em Here's the in the girls car you never heard
Here they There are look at 'em
Remember the time when drive-ins opened And the girls used to come out to take your Now you're you know, if you get a girl in slacks who delivers it I understand they're even putting in conveyor belts in some drive-in There was a time when the little came running out in short little skirts them? You in And the girl would come running up May I your order sir? Yes, but I don't believe on the menu, ha ha They don't, they don't let you any more now They give you a green box with a white button on it A little speaker grill,
Oh, ok, um, We'd like one cheeseburger deluxe extra The one you have out with the little white cup With that whatever that's in there, we'll it, whatever it is And uh, we'd two hamburgers medium rare with everything on 'em And one hamburger, no, one hamburger, meat, no One frank, and chiliburgers, ok? Alright, and we'd like two shakes, regular thick, for spoons you know THICK And we'd like two shakes thin Water them down, or milk them a little, ok 'Cause we got somebody here chapped lips and they'd like it thin Can, you understand I mean? Are you
Well, could you us what we have please?
And four take it And after you get food order in, you got at least 40 minutes to wait Even if it's just a cup of you got 40 minutes to wait And you get out of your car, right Remember there was a when drive-ins first opened You used to pull in and get out, hellos, greetings Evidentally some people were getting out and Something a heavier than hellos and greetings They have policemen to keep you in your car You can be 47 years old and drop your credit cards on the Officer, that's my I care who you are kid back in the car If you do get out, you be very careful Because the new resturants have now So you have to crawl on belly between the cars You get over to the of the car Psssst here! I can't come up, spot me Put your window
Power windows, Whoo, this is a fancy car Hey, you're a pretty broad
If you did manage to get out of the drive-in resturant without being There was a sporting taking place at the traffic light Remember, with all of two Mr. Businessman who drove a 4-door sedan with black-wall tires Automatic Seated next to him in a 1941 gray coated Ford With rear end 2 inches off the ground Tomato for mufflers With his back to the drivers window, his left arm draped the steering wheel His hand gripped onto the gearshift lever A on lips sat THE KID
Well, Mr. Businessman has just had his tightened, and Those of you who are not quite sure what I By having your bands The bands are the in an automatic transmission actually affect the gear change Uh huh, give you an example This is an automobile with bands
This is an with loose bands
Well, Mr. Businessman has just had his tightened And he thinks that he will show THE KID a or two Meanwhile, THE KID Has inched these 2 fingers up his left arm This is the universal signlanguage teenagers for dragging You recall Winston Churchill during the war years Which everyone assumed meant V for Actually if also recall Winston Churchill smokes a cigar, right? He to hold it in here, right? And he would turn to his friends on the stage and say a drag? See, and the kids it up The light The light changes to amber and Mr. Businessman decides to get daring He pulls the automatic down into low He puts one on the brake Still holding the foot on the brake, in order to get that extra start He pulls the automatic down into low And down on the accelerator five inches The car is hemorraging He knows, he knows, he knows he's have to have another band job He's not gonna let THE KID him up The light changes to green, Mr. is off
Looks at the speedometer, 80, 90, 95, 96, 97, 98 an hour Looks out the and The Kids not even there You know there?
He in the rear view mirror and The Kids still back at the corner He never anybody He sits there and scares the hell out of them