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Mayor Giuliani's career plans after City Hall are far from certain -- but yesterday he appeared to be trying his hand at standup comedy.
Hizzoner appeared on "Late Show With David Letterman" to deliver the Top 10 List. The topic: Things I Will Miss About Being Mayor.
Drumroll, please:
10. If I feel like sleeping in, I call a citywide snow emergency.
9. Naming a street after someone is a great, inexpensive Christmas gift.
8. If I want tickets to "The Producers," I just pick up the phone -- and four or five months later I get tickets to "The Producers."
7. The look on people's faces when they realize the key to the city doesn't open a damn thing.
6. I'm double-parked right now -- who's gonna tow me?
5. That smell in the subway. ... Call me crazy, but I've grown to love it.
4. When someone catches a gator in Central Park, guess who gets to keep it?
3. Street vendors sell me counterfeit DVDs half-price.
2. The Yankees winning all those World Series? That was my idea.
1. The daily call from Letterman begging me to reopen strip clubs
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ODD FACTS YOU DON'T REALLY NEED TO KNOW UNLESS YOU GO ON A GAMESHOW
Average life span of a major league baseball: 7 pitches.
A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.
The reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the days of yore when the engines were pulled by horses. The horses were stabled on the ground floor and figured out how to walk up straight staircases.
The airplane Buddy Holly died in was the "American Pie." (Thus the name of the Don McLean song.)
Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history.
Spades - King David; Clubs - Alexander the Great; Hearts - Charlemagne; and Diamonds - Julius Caesar.
The highest point in Pennsylvania is lower than the lowest point in Colorado.
If you put a raisin in a glass of champagne, it will keep floating to the top and sinking to the bottom.
The fingerprints of koala bears are virtually indistinguishable from those of humans, so much so that they could be confused at a crime scene.
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