Warmest greetings to the Bishop of Los Angeles

'Fred Astaire is a pixie ... with a Lefty Flynn-type penchant for schoolboy jokes - so when one day a voice on the telephone said, "Good morning, I am the Bishop of Los Angeles," I replied knowingly, "And I am the Mother Superior - how's your cock?"

A quick intake of breath followed by a longish pause alerted me to the fact that it was not Fred. When the Bishop had recovered from this unaccustomed greeting, he told me what was on his mind.

"We have a Convention of several thousand Anglican clergy coming to Los Angeles from all over the world, we are holding a service in the Hollywood Bowl and we would be very happy if you would read the Second Lesson"'

- David Niven, The Moon's A Balloon, 1971, p.291.