[Daniel]
One or two readers have, ahem, replied to my suggestion that New Yorkers are not polite. Michael Hauptman goes one further and destroys my theory altogether.
He writes:
I’m sure you meant it humo(u)rously
Er, yes.
And then he continues:
But the truth is somewhat otherwise. I would like to point you to this little gem, in which NY ranked as the politest city in the world. Yes, the world.
He then links to this.
I withdraw. Unfortunately this leaves me with only nine things in my list. So I add:
10. Billy Beane.
The Dish 