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August 08, 2004
We Can Kick Your City’s Ass
This one is not too tourism-friendly, in my humble opinion. It was coined by a writer on David Letterman's The Late Show and spoken by Mayor Rudy Giuliani.
Click on the "Big Apple Corner" icon and you'll find that it's on David Letterman's block. I've never been on his show, he's never helped me with "the Big Apple," and he does things like this?
13 April 1995, New York Times, pg. B3:
But as Mr. Letterman turned the camera on Mr. Giuliani there was clear enthusiasm in the Mayor's voice as he uttered the words of the fifth choice, which were at that moment flashed live on the Jumbotron in Times Square: "We can kick your city's ass."
Click on the "Big Apple Corner" icon and you'll find that it's on David Letterman's block. I've never been on his show, he's never helped me with "the Big Apple," and he does things like this?
13 April 1995, New York Times, pg. B3:
But as Mr. Letterman turned the camera on Mr. Giuliani there was clear enthusiasm in the Mayor's voice as he uttered the words of the fifth choice, which were at that moment flashed live on the Jumbotron in Times Square: "We can kick your city's ass."