My memory of the store is definitely "Zayre's", with the S - glad to see another commenter remembers it the same way, even if it might be wrong? Unless they changed their name at some point, because the text in the video clearly calls itself in the singular. Compare to another local landmark "Spag's" that clearly had the possessive S, being "the store owned by Spag".

While I enjoyed the show and do think the right chef won (chef Mehta's "I don't care what anybody thinks" personality turned me off, we're supposed to like you if we want to watch you on tv), I don't understand why they needed a second season of this show. Iron Chef as it is seems like the Bobby Flay / Cat Cora show, with occasional guest appearances by Michael Simon or Masaharu Morimoto. I can't remember the last time I saw Mario Batali, is he even still on it? You've got a weekly show with 5 chefs (soon to be 6), even optimally you'd still only see your favorite chef less than once a month.

They should have 3 chefs, and rotate equally through them. When they do a "next" Iron Chef, it should be a legitimate case of swapping out one of the current 3 for a new one. Make it mean something. That'll never happen as I expect that Bobby Flay in particular is cemented in to his spot, but still, it'd make the show more interesting to me.

This one was good, but the big surprise at the end with the daughter sitting in the living room may have been a bit over the top. There's a difference between "I didn't see that coming" and "Aw come on, that makes no sense!"

I like the suicide angle. In that instant it changed the whole premise of the show from "Ok, how are we gonna get from point A to point B" to "Are we still going to end up at B?" It's proof of free will. The ending was very "original Terminator" like that -- we thought we knew the future but now who knows. You could almost see a case for that being the end of the show, if it hadn't been picked up. "Experiment" gets people stuck in the loop of a self-fulfilling future (happening because they think it has to happen and therefore they're making it happen), until one guy gives "the gift" and breaks the cycle. Happy ending, go about your business.

That show would be much, much more interesting if it involved putting a bunch of high level Buddhist monks (get it? Lamas?) in silly situations and seeing how they handle it. I would watch that show.

Actually I've just discovered that if you spell it "New Yorkachusetts", two words no hyphen, you get lots of hits - such as people listing it as a home location on forum profiles.

So maybe it's more popular than we think.

Other theories out there state that it's an insult to Connecticut, basically a way of referring to it as a New York suburb. Or that it has no personality/heritage of its own, and is just the space between the two.

Like others, I've never heard the term. My best guess is that it's a Red Sox / Yankees reference, as if New England was divided down the middle between the two. He's being questioned on his loyalties. The guy picks neutral ground with Connecticut. But that's not a "quiz" question like the others are, with a right or wrong answer. I mean, we *know* that they're called jimmies, that's not really subject to interpretation.

But then again ... You don't know about the sports loyalties of guy-with-coffee, so there is most certainly a wrong answer to that question that will not get you coffee. So the guy plays it safe.

I once did some computer work for some missionaries who'd spent most of their lives in South America, and were fluent in Spanish. They told me the story of how they went into the computer store (back in the late 80's / early 90's before Dell and Gateway took often, and you were often buying computers from geeks who'd put them together to spec) and were speaking to a nice Asian gentleman about a system. To discuss it, missionary husband turns to his wife and says, in Spanish, something to the effect of "What do you think, honey? Is this a good deal, or is this jerking us around?"

To which he heard come from behind him, in equally fluent Spanish, "No, it's a good deal, I'm not jerking you around."

My memory of the story is that the guy was from the Canary Islands, where the Asian/Spanish crossover is quite common. But I could be remembering that completely incorrectly.

The great thing about that statement is that you don't even have to be talking about Moby Dick. His Scrooge is definitive, and his Macbeth is nothing to sneeze at. I heard he was even the captain of a space ship in some tv show.

Was sorry to see magic guy go, especially on the week that he brought his daughter. You know that "You got voted off because I stunk up your act for you" surely came up backstage. I also expect that, because he brought her in, that his trick was a little more subdued than perhaps it could have been (so yes, he got voted off because of his daughter, sad but probably true).

I could care less about Grandma Lee, I don't find old lady "everybody wants to do me" jokes all that funny. Too predictable. I'm surprised about Fab 5 going as far as they have. Whenever they brought in the sticks and cymbals I thought "Ok, 'Stomp' theyre not." Plus, isn't there another percussion act coming up next week that blows them away on that front?

Next week you could almost imagine Footwork Kings, Laurence Beaman and Barbara the opera lady, unless something weird happens. I'd like to see Recycled Percussion take the last spot. Mario and Jenny may be very Vegas, but at the end of it he's still just a single juggler.

I had "Opera lady, Ishara, ball room dance kids, Mia, Recycled Percussion.", so 3 out of 5. Not bad, given that I didn't actually see the other two (Drew Stevyns and EriAm Sisters) perform I suppose.

Top 5 : Lawrence, Barbara, Voices of Glory, Footworkings, Drew Thomas Magic.