I'm going to tell a joke. It's an old joke, and a local joke, so I'll have to provide some background. It was inspired by one of my high school teachers, a dude named Richard Gavigan who taught history and also coached football. He was famous for three things: his temper, his almost completely bald head, and his pop quizzes. I had him for world history my sophomore year, so I know all about those.
At least once a week, Coach Gavigan would throw a pop quiz. On those days, as soon as the bell rang for class to start, he would stand up in front of the room and say, "Take out a piece of paper and a pencil and number from one to ten. We're gonna have a little quiz."
He would then read us ten questions, and for each one we were to write T or F. Always true-or-false questions, always ten of them, and always with the same instructions. It never varied. "Take out a piece of paper and a pencil and number from one to ten. Were gonna have a little quiz."
And that inspired this joke, which we all thought was hilarious, at least the first time we heard it, and which I think must have been passed down from one class of students to the next at Palatine High School for all the decades that Coach Gavigan taught there. It goes like this:
What did God say to Moses on Mt. Sinai? "Take out a tablet and a chisel and number from one to ten. We're gonna have a little quiz."
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