Former Mayor Moon Landrieu during the flood in 1978.
Former Mayor Moon Landrieu during the flood in 1978.
The Times-Picayune and many others gave our civic leader, friend and former mayor Moon Landrieu the accolades he fully deserved.
But his favorite joke, which he told even if you had heard it before, was left out. Moon would get a twinkle in his eye and a mischievous grin on his face and would tell this story.
A preacher had a congregant who had become an alcoholic, and the preacher wanted to free him from his drinking. He gave a fire and brimstone sermon and at the end, he put two glasses filled with clear liquid on the podium.
Then he said, “This first glass has water, and the second glass has vodka. Now watch what happens to this worm when I put it into each liquid.”
He dropped the worm into the water and it swam around. Then he moved the worm into the vodka where it promptly went into shock and died.
Then the preacher, looking straight at the alcoholic, asked, “What do we learn from this?”
The alcoholic promptly replied, “If we drink enough whiskey, we won’t get worms!”
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