Hitchhiking and the Bible

“The limb is mightier than the thumb,” quipped Claudette Colbert when, by extending her shapely leg into the street, she gained what Clark Gable’s thumb could not: a ride. In the classic screwball comedy, It Happened One Night, Gable blithely assumes he is the hitchhiking expert of the pair—only to be humiliated by Colbert’s far more effective method.