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   In article <1157389582.413620.207770@i42g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>,   
    nebusj@rpi.edu wrote:   
      
   > Jim Ellwanger wrote:   
   >   
   > > I'm pushing for Tampa, too, Conan!  (As one or two of you may remember,   
   > > there was a time when if a guest mentioned that Conan had gone to   
   > > Harvard, he would immediately claim it was "the Harvard Driving School   
   > > in Tampa.")   
   >   
   >         Say now, he did at that.  Is there actually such a driving   
   > school, or was it just that he hit on an amusing enough city and stuck   
   > to it?   
      
   Not that I know of.  My driving instruction in Tampa was at the hands of   
   the driver's ed teachers at Henry B. Plant High School -- I never had   
   the need for private lessons.   
      
   >         Tampa hasn't got the inherent comic value of Schenectady, but   
   > it's also not so overused.   
      
   Those "Goth Talk" sketches on SNL in the mid-1990s took place in Tampa,   
   mainly because the writers figured it was a very unlikely location for   
   there to be a Goth subculture.   
      
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