Mental Note

A noted psychiatrist was a guest at a gathering of humor editors, and his host
naturally broached the subject in which the doctor was most at ease. "Would you
mind telling me, Doctor," he asked, "how you detect a mental deficiency in
somebody who appears completely normal?"



"Nothing is easier," he
replied. "You ask him a simple question which everyone should answer with no
trouble. If he hesitates, that puts you on the track."



"What sort of
question?"



"Well, you might ask him, 'Captain Cook made three trips
around the world and died during one of them. Which one?'"



The editor
thought a moment, then said with a nervous laugh, "You wouldn't happen to have
another example would you? I must confess I don't know much about history."

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