BANAL INTERVIEWS WITH CELEBRITY GHOSTS – THOMAS EDISON
Loon: With us today for the 3 Question Interview is none other than the ghost of Thomas Alvin Edison, the famous inventor. Mr. Edison, was it hard to invent stuff?
Edison’s ghost: My middle name is Alva, not Alvin, and inventing ‘stuff’, as you say, was no easy task.
Loon: Alva? Really? Sounds more like a skin lotion than a name. But never mind. Second question. Did you ever meet Jack Dempsey?
Edison’s ghost: What that has to do with anything at all I’d like to know. Did I meet him? Yes.
Loon: Ah, now we’re getting somewhere. Final question. Did Jack Dempsey offer a firm handshake when he met you or a surprisingly weak one?
Edison’s ghost: He damn near broke every bone in my hand.
Loon (smiling confidently): Thank you, Mr. Edison, inventor of many things, not one of which I am at liberty to name, owing to the fact that I don’t know for sure what sorts of things you invented.
(The ghost of Edison has already left the premises.)
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