In 1933, when FDR called in all the gold, Tallulah Bankhead showed up at the bank with a huge stack of gold coins. "Why, Miss Bankhead," said the teller, "you've been hoarding!" "Never mind how I got it. Bank it."
A cartoon I never saw showed a student standing on a chair, nailing a high-heeled shoe over his door. Another student was saying "I think, Pierre, you misunderstood when we were telling you about that old American custom."