Two friends were talking one day and one fellow, a braggart and a blowhard, claims he "knows just about everybody!"
"Prove it" his friend replies, "Call the Mayor." To which the fellow picks up a phone and dials a number from memory and begins chatting. Thinking its a ruse the fellow grabs the phone and says "Who's this?" "Why it's the Mayor, who's this, are you a friend of Fred's, he knows everybody."
Completely surprised the fellow says "That was a fluke, i bet you don't know the Governor." Once again Fred picks up the phone dials a number from memory and begins chatting. After a minute Fred hands him the phone. To his amazement the answer comes "It's Rick Perry, Governor, are you a friend of Fred's?"
The friend is growing suspicious at this point and states "Why only the phone? How come we don't get to meet anyone in person?" Fred grabs his friend and they drive to the airport and purchase two tickets to Italy.
After a long flight they arrive in Rome. It's Wednesday and they take a cab to the Vatican City and make their way to St. Peter's Basilica. Fred tells his friend to wait in the crowd. After a bit the Pope emerges on the balcony and has conducted Mass Fred makes his way back to where he left his friend to find a small group of people and some paramedics, Fred is quite alarmed and asks his friend who is sitting dazedly on the ground what happened. "Well, he replies, I was watching and when you came out on the balcony I was amazed!" "Is that when you fainted?" Fred replied. "No he said, after you came out I turned to someone standing next to me and asked 'Do you know that fellow up there on the balcony?'" The stranger looked up and said "Why sure I do, but who's the guy with Fred?"
That's when I fainted...
