The Most Rev. R.C. Trench, who many years ago was Protestant Archbishop of Dublin, had a morbid fear of becoming paralyzed. One evening at a party, the lady he sat next to at dinner heard him muttering mournfully to himself, “It’s happened at last–total insensibility of the right limb.”

“Your Grace,” said the lady, “it might comfort you to learn that it is my leg you are pinching.”

— The Irish Digest