From: nebusj-@-rpi-.edu   
      
   Jim Ellwanger  writes:   
      
   >In article ,   
   > nebusj-@-rpi-.edu (Joseph Nebus) wrote:   
      
   >> 	5.  Late Night's taken the show on the road to several healthy   
   >> sized cities, plus Canada.  What overlooked-so-far city should they go   
   >> to, and why?   
      
   >Tampa, Florida, because it's my hometown.  And Conan occasionally claims   
   >to have attended "Harvard Driving School" there.   
      
   	He's surprisingly consistent about the location of the Harvard   
   Driving School, too.  I wonder what got him in Tampa.   
      
   	I think it'd be rather neat if Conan could bring his show to   
   Havana, since that was the first out-of-the-United-States location to   
   which The Tonight Show went, under Jack Paar.  But given the politics   
   of the matter that's certain not to happen unless by some freakish   
   and unlikely chance Fidel Castro were to ever die, and I doubt that   
   the city will be much more easily visited by United States tourists   
   for years to come after that.   
      
   	So among realistic cities I'd nominate any of the great   
   Asia-Pacific cities -- Tokyo, Osaka, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Kuala   
   Lumpur, Singapore.  They've got that combination of having enough   
   cultural elements in common with the United States that you *think*   
   you can understand them, and then go off in strange and alien ways.   
   As a bonus, any time things start to flag they can point to any given   
   sign and find something weird by nature of baing mangled English or   
   just because they use words oddly.  (Singapore, for example, uses   
   'toilet' to refer to the entire bathroom, so you get amusing-to-   
   Americans signs like 'Please do not leave personal items in toilet'.)   
      
      
   >> 	6.  Is there any property -- besides ownership -- that runs in   
   >> common among all the cars you've owned or regularly driven?   
      
   >The color blue.  (Actually, my current car, which I've had for just over   
   >10 years now, is a color that Nissan called "Emerald Teal" -- it looks   
   >blue in most light conditions, but green under certain circumstances.)   
      
   	Hm.  I've never managed blue in a car.  My common trait is   
   that I get aggressively generic cars, the sorts of things that people   
   conjure up when they're asked to imagine a car but are not given any   
   kind of traits to pin down what sort.  Brown Chevy Celebrity?  Mine.   
   Saturn greenish four-door?  Mine.  White Mercury Sable?  Mine.  I could   
   commit the most heinous driving acts in front of a cop and get away   
   with it as he'd be unable to summon an exact idea of what car I have   
   past that it's a 'car' of some kind.   
      
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   								Joseph Nebus   
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