The Song of
Old Sparky

Just as the prisoner was being strapped into the electric chair, the priest said, "Son, is there anything I can do for you?" The prisoner said, "Yeah, when they pull the switch, hold my hand."

--- Dick Gregory

If Jesus had been killed twenty years ago, Catholic school-children would be wearing little electric chairs around their necks instead of crosses.

--- Lenny Bruce
As quoted in The Sun
August 2010