March 24, 2008 10:55 PM
Wisdom From Saul Turteltaub
"Regarding leftovers: Better they go to waste then they go to waist.""New York exaggeration. Three Subways and the Hudson Tube."
(When I suggested to Saul that I did not understand this line, he sent me the following explanation.
"In New York when you had to go a distance it involved taking two or three subways, most connected at Times Square and the full exaggeration was "and the Hudson Tube", which was a tunnel between Jersey City, NJ and downtown New York.
Example: "Why aren't you going out with Edna anymore? She is geographically undesirable. Three subways and the Hudson Tube. Or more simply: Bronx."
Subsequently Saul sent me the following version. "What a terrible date it was. I took a belt way, a parkway, a thruway to get a "no way."
And that is how a joke is born.
