I remember back when I first moved to New York -- and from California, which is pretty much Zorba's "full catastrophe." In my first week there, learning that I was a NYC Newbie, a woman in a bar told me two jokes that she introduced by saying that they'd help me understand where I was. Both turned out to be prophetic.
In the first joke, a guy is walking down a busy New York street and someone stops him and says, "Hey Buddy...you got a minute?" Guy barely breaks stride, and says, "Yeah, but I'm using it!" The second joke was explaining the difference between New York and California. "In California, the women say 'Fuck me, Fuck me.' In New York, they say 'Fuck you.'" Anyway, this collection of Things Said On The Streets Of New York struck me as funny. Actual or artificial, spontaneous or scripted...doesn't matter. Just as with the two jokes, it captures the mindset. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/28/shit-native-new-yorkers-say_n_1239143.html
