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1.95sYeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Great story, Lenny.
2.57sBut here's one that's even more spellbinding.
4.52sOnce upon a time, there was a man named Thomas Edison,
4.1sand he invented the dictating machine and the fluoroscope...
2.47sand the repeating telegraph.
1.95sAnd he was a firm believer in Fletcherism...
3sand he played the organ and his favorite flower was the heliotrope.
1.7sOh, and his middle name was Alva,
3.1sand he never, ever, ever wore pajamas.
2.24sOkay. I think we've been polite long enough here.
3.15sLenny, what happened with the dame in the bathing suit? Huh?
2.45sOh. Uh--
2.29sOh, nuts. I forgot.
3.4sAll I can think of now is Edison. I can't even remember where I work.
2.79sWell, I remember where Edison worked. It was Menlo Park.
2.94sThat's where he came up with the tasimeter, the ore separator and--
2.87sUh, James Watt invented the steam engine.
2.5sThat's boring. You're boring everybody.
2.17sQuit boring everyone!
2.38sAnd then he worked on a machine to communicate with the dead.
1.94sSome kind of scary telephone, I guess.