{"id":10216,"date":"2011-11-04T13:56:49","date_gmt":"2011-11-04T13:56:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2011\/11\/04\/old-paul-harvey-joke\/"},"modified":"2011-11-04T13:56:49","modified_gmt":"2011-11-04T13:56:49","slug":"old-paul-harvey-joke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2011\/11\/04\/old-paul-harvey-joke\/","title":{"rendered":"Old Paul Harvey Joke"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Man attempts to enter swanky restaurant. Maitre d&#39; informs him that coat and tie are required. Man returns to car, dons coat, and tries once more to enter. Maitre d&#39; says that a tie is also necessary. Man returns to car, opens trunk, takes out jumper cables, and arranges them around his neck. Heated discussion ensues, but maitre d&#39; finally relents: &quot;OK, you can go in, but just don&#39;t start anything!&quot;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/.a\/6a010535ce1cf6970c015436a31c3b970c-pi\" style=\"float: left;\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/.a\/6a010535ce1cf6970c0162fc24e921970d-pi\" style=\"float: left;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Harvey_0301\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a010535ce1cf6970c0162fc24e921970d\" src=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/.a\/6a010535ce1cf6970c0162fc24e921970d-120wi\" style=\"margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px;\" title=\"Harvey_0301\" \/><\/a>I remember exactly when and where I heard this joke.&#0160; It was June of 1995.&#0160; I was headed from Phoenix to Charlottesville to take part in an NEH Summer Seminar on the Philosophy&#0160;of Science at the University of Virginia.&#0160; As I was&#0160;&#39;motorvatin&#39;* in my &#39;88 Jeep Cherokee past&#0160;&#0160;Knoxville, Tennessee on Interstate 40, old <a href=\"http:\/\/www.time.com\/time\/arts\/article\/0,8599,1882444,00.html\" target=\"_self\">Paul Harvey<\/a>&#0160;(1918-2009) came on the air and told the above joke.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Now you know the rest of the story.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">_______________<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">*&#39;Motorvatin&#39; borrowed from Chuck Berry&#39;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8RAfxiyMKAk\" target=\"_self\">Maybelline<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Man attempts to enter swanky restaurant. Maitre d&#39; informs him that coat and tie are required. Man returns to car, dons coat, and tries once more to enter. Maitre d&#39; says that a tie is also necessary. Man returns to car, opens trunk, takes out jumper cables, and arranges them around his neck. Heated discussion &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2011\/11\/04\/old-paul-harvey-joke\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Old Paul Harvey Joke&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[196,242],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-americana","category-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10216\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}