Nikola Tesla vs. the Minister

Nikola Tesla, at a dinner in New York, had explained one of his numerous inventions. "You see how simple it is," he ended, "once it's explained. It's like the old minister's explanation of his long pastorate — a pastorate of 40 years. 'You se,' he said, 'when I'd get mad and want to go, they wouldn't let me; and when they got mad and wanted me to go, I wouldn't go. We both never got mad at the same time.' " — Chicago News.