I'd like to somebody to the stage that you know as a folk singer But that you haven't met in his other
Paul is a comedian with a unique point of view and And in capacity, ladies and gentlemen Please welcome me to the stage, my good friend My compatriot, Paul
was the sound of a golf ball Or if you're a ping-pong enthusiast, that was a sound of a ping-pong generally you'll hear
That's the sound of a match between a and a ping-pong enthusiast
I golf today, 18 holes I played golf, wooo I did pretty good too, I you would have been very proud of me Four. Five. Six
I don't like very much There's a vast number of sports that I'm not in. water skiing In order to water ski, you should swim, right? You're not gonna stay up all the time, now And I like to swim, really You know what is to me? alive when I'm in the water. I'll do anything to afloat Even swallow Co2
But I come out here to talk about sports I really, I came out here, talks about status And I cannot think of one object that has more status in this country the automobile And it at a very early age now, right? I mean, now at 14, kids want the car, get cheaters permits so they can drive You get a permit at 15, a cheaters permit at 14 And it's, I guess it's really because You lose a lot of calling up a girl and asking her If you can peddle right over and her up, right?
They don't really go for any more And if you look back on all the times you had the Aside from a few interesting evenings You got to admit that one of the nicest of all Was a sunday afternoon, if you get the car You down 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 were fast, you'd say, mom, dad, have I done my Run out the You pick up 3 great pretenders, 3 oclock in the afternoon The time is now 10 in the evening The same 4 guys are in the car Well, whata you do? I know, whada you wanna do? Hey, we've been driving for 7 Hey, I got an idea, he he Yeah, what's Lets go to a drive-in resturant and look at the girls, Oh, ok Well, they are, but they're all from our high school a minute, there's a car load over there There's a place right next to them, go get it
Don't at 'em Here's the in the girls car you never heard
Here come There are Don't at 'em
Remember the time when drive-ins first And the girls used to come out to take your Now you're lucky you know, if you get a girl in slacks who it I understand they're even in conveyor belts in some drive-in resturants There was a when the little girls came running out in short little skirts Remember You in And the little would come running up May I take your order Yes, but I don't it's on the menu, ha ha They don't, they don't let you any more now They give you a little green box with a button on it A speaker grill, right
Oh, ok, um, We'd like one cheeseburger deluxe special The one you have out with the little white cup With that whatever that's in there, we'll take it, it is And uh, we'd like two hamburgers medium with everything on 'em And one hamburger, no, one hamburger, meat, no One frank, and chiliburgers, ok? Alright, and we'd like two chocolate shakes, regular thick, for you know THICK And we'd like two strawberry shakes Water them down, or milk them a little, ok 'Cause we got somebody here with chapped lips and they'd like it Can, you understand what I Are you
Well, could you tell us what we have
And four take it And after you get your food in, you got at least 40 minutes to wait Even if just a cup of coffee 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, exchange hellos, Evidentally some were getting out and exchanging a little heavier than hellos and greetings They have there to keep you in your car You can be 47 years old and drop your credit cards on the Officer, that's my I don't 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 your belly between the You get over to the of the car Psssst here! I can't come up, they'll me Put your window
windows, huh? Whoo, this is a fancy car Hey, you're a fancy broad
If you did manage to get out of the resturant without being maimed There was a sporting event taking place at the traffic Remember, all of two characters Mr. who drove a 4-door family sedan with black-wall tires transmission Seated next to him in a 1941 gray primer coated With it's rear end 2 inches off the cans for mufflers With his back to the drivers window, his left arm draped over the steering His right hand gripped the gearshift lever A sneer on sat THE KID
Well, Mr. Businessman has just had his tightened, and Those of you who are not quite what I mean By your bands tightened The bands are the rings in an automatic Which affect the gear change Uh huh, give you an example This is an automobile tight bands
This is an with loose bands
Well, Mr. Businessman has just had his bands And he thinks he will show THE KID a thing or two Meanwhile, THE KID Has these 2 fingers up over his left arm This is the signlanguage among teenagers for dragging You probably recall Winston during the war years Which everyone assumed meant V for Actually if also recall Winston Churchill smokes a cigar, right? He used to it in here, right? And occationally he would turn to his friends on the and say Want a See, and the picked it up The changes The light changes to amber and Mr. Businessman to get very daring He pulls the transmission down into low He puts one foot on the Still holding the foot on the brake, in order to get that extra start He pulls the automatic transmission down low And pushes down on the accelerator five The car is hemorraging He knows, he knows, he knows he's gonna to have another band job not gonna let THE KID show him up The changes to green, Mr. Businessman is off
Looks at the speedometer, 80, 90, 95, 96, 97, 98 an hour Looks out the window and The Kids not there You know there?
He looks in the rear view mirror and The Kids still back at the He races anybody He just sits there and the hell out of them