From the early standup of Woody Allen:
Years ago, my mother gave me a bullet...a bullet, and I put it in my breast pocket. Two years after that, I was walking down the street, when a berserk evangelist heaved a Gideon bible out a hotel room window, hitting me in the chest. Bible would have gone through my heart if it wasn't for the bullet.
For contemporary manifestations of the Bible/bullet scenario, see Cordell's previous post.
In An American Bible (Stanford University Press, 1999, p. 113), Paul Gutjar attributes this comedic anecdote to Mark Twain, without further citation.
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