I'm pretty excited

What? Not a froggy flick or a Brechtian monologue or a new poets open mic night? Good to see you dumbing down to the masses' level rybs.

At $150 a ticket I don't expect to be too assailed by the smelly masses.

If he mentions chalkies or schools, claim it as a tax deduction!

$150 a ticket! I wouldn't pay that to see anyone.

We're off to the Kransky Sisters tonight - which unfortunately means rubbing shoulders with the Albany masses!

Social climbing is good occasionally.

Ah, big city prices....and of course the salaries and mortgages to match...!

i like billy crystal. when i was 14 he inexplicably turned up at 'the briars' restaurant in the southern highlands, where i was having lunch one sunday with my school friend and her mum - a brief respite from boarding school cuisine. anyhoo, we spotted billy crystal having lunch and waited for him to finish and leave before following him out the door and asking him for his autograph. he obliged very graciously and charmingly.

Yes, we have the mortgages, but not the salaries in the west now.

ryb: Did you go to 'Keating!'?