The great sage, seer, soothsayer, famous mystic, all of Nishant, and former tax advisor to Governor Reagan.

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The I'm gonna The I will have an English muffin, please.

Or crumpit. Do you have crumpets? Because crumpets are really technically more English than English. I don't even know what an English muffin. What particularly Anglo-ish is about it. So you have crumpets? Okay, well, I don't like crumpets. I'll have an English muffin.

Toasted, yes, butter, yes, jam, yes, thank you. Hi, folks, welcome to the diner. I'm James Lovick, sitting at my custom place at the long, long, well, it's not that long, boomerang pattern for Micah counter. It's the old diner on old highway 23, about 13 and a half minutes for wherever you happen to be right now. I mean, how long is it?

Yeah. 23, about 13 and a half minutes from wherever you happen to be right now. I mean, how long is it? This diner is so long.

How long is it?

Was that ever funny?

It really hasn't.

The first time, maybe, but the second time, third time, fourth time,

hundredth time that Johnny would say that and the crowd would respond.

How blank is it?

And he would look surprised as though it never occurred to him that that would be the reaction.

Boy, huh.

And I haven't said anything like that probably for 20 years.

I mean, you may think it in your head if you grew up at a certain point in American history and watched Johnny Carson.

Just as you may think sometime in your head, hi-yo!

Which would, you know, phrase it'll mean absolutely nothing to my daughter's generation or subsequent.

Nor should it, really.

I mean, if you want to be a student of American culture, you know every single little catchphrase and every little thing about the... I mean, I remember I was watching a Jimmy Kegney movie, and at the end of the movie, I think it was called Taxi. He turns to... I've mentioned this before in the diner, I think. he turns to his best gal because he's beat the taxi rackets and she says something or whatever. Or if she doubts what he just said and says, Vass you dare, Charlotte. And I remember watching that movie and saying, I have absolutely no idea what he's talking about. None whatsoever. But of course, the audience would. The audience would have known the catchphrase from Baron Monschow's in Vasi Desha.

Somebody questions what he did.

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