Terry Dashner….. Faith Fellowship Church PO Box 1586 Broken Arrow, OK 74013

In his autobiography, Leading with My Chin, comedian Jay Leno recounts numerous stories of his rise as a young Boston comedian to hosting “Tonight Show” as successor to legendary Johnny Carson. One chapter tells of his appearance on Dinah Shore talk show where he learned importance of what in showbiz parlance is called “outcue.”

“Okay,” said talent coordinator. “What’s your last joke, so band knows when to play you off?” “Listen, do I have to give you my last line?” Leno asked. Like all comedians, he hated to have any band step on a laugh and cut off applause. But eventually he agreed. “How about if I just say, ‘Thank you, thank you very much!’ Twice, okay? And that’ll be cue.”

Unfortunately, Dinah Shore’s welcome was so warm and audience’s ovation for his one-line entry was so overwhelming that Leno was taken aback. Flustered, he muttered “Thank you, thank you very much.” The band leader looked up in panic, stubbed out his cigarette, brought band crashing in, and ushered Leno out. Whereupon Dinah Shore smiled even more broadly, audience went wild with applause, and interview was over before it started. “It was most ridiculous slot of my career,” Leno said ruefully.

An amusing, somewhat embarrassing anecdote in a book full of stories and jokes, Leno’s account has only one problem: it didn’t happen—or rather it didn’t happen to Leno. As a New York journalist brought to light, incident actually happened to a fellow-comedian and friend of Leno’s. But Leno was so delighted by story that he paid his friend a thousand dollars for rights to use story as his own material for a chapter in his autobiography. [Os Guinness, Time For Truth, (Baker Books: Grand Rapids, Michigan) pp 40-41.]

Since beginning of time mankind has been mystified by dreams. Kings, poets, philosophers, statesmen, peasants: They have ALL dreamed, have all wondered about their dreams, and have all been made happy or miserable by them. They have treated them, alternately, with utmost seriousness and respect or with scorn and skepticism. They have, at times, held them in awe and wonder and at other times, laughed them off.

But they've never - and we'd never - ignore them.

Dreams are lived and relived...told and re-told...remembered and forgotten...laughed over and cried over....accepted as gospel truth and rejected as utter nonsense. They are credited with influencing future and praised as shedding light on present. They have been inspiration for literally countless books, paintings and other works of art. They are said to drive men and women to take action when nothing else will move them.

But they've never been - nor will they ever be - ignored.