Toad: So tell me Abner, what is it that you fear the most?
Abner: Nada, zilch, double zilch.
Toad: What rhymes with zilch?
Abner: You’re changing the subject.
Toad: It’s my subject. It was I who asked you what you fear; it was I who asked you what rhymes with zilch. The answer is filch, which I believe is a word for theft, which is what you are doing when you beat around the bush.; you’re stealing your own identity.
So tell me; what are the four things you fear the most?
Abner: Why four?
Toad: (Silence.)
Abner: Okay, okay.
Toad: (Silence)
Abner: Four things?
Toad: (Silence.)
Abner: Okay I’ve got it.
Toad: Ribbet
Abner: Toads don’t say “ribbet”; that’s the language of frogs.
Toad: So…
Abner: The four things are…
Toad: (Silence)
Abner: Baptists, Muslims, Republicans and Democrats.
Toad: Libertarians?
Abner: Them too.
Toad: Librarians?
Abner: Not afraid of Librarians.
Toad: Why is that, Abner?
Abner: It’s okay with them if I think.
Toad: Aren’t you a Lutheran?
Abner: I am.
Toad: Why’s that?
Abner: Martin Luther was a Librarian in his spare time.
Toad: Really?
Abner: Really.
