Few in the optimistic crowd guessed that the "crossover" would be into potential oblivion.
Mrs. Gillespie told the crowd, "Well, guess what, Mayor Giuliani, I'm asking that you give the surviving officers enough money to live on".
More important, just before she appears on the screen, it displays a question that asks the baseball fans in the crowd to guess the attendance.
"Now, I am not one to read into things," Mr. Kerry told the crowd, "but guess which wing of the hospital the maternity was in.
On Saturday, as people walked into Avery Fisher (soon to be David Geffen Halll, there were the expected jokes from an excited crowd: "I guess they shoot you if you show up late".
She said she would "rather die than work in Vegas" and in another bawdy joke asked the crowd to guess the punchline to her joke: "What's the difference between a car tyre and 365 used condoms?", wiping a $100 note between her legs and offering it as a prize.
(Although, that might describe some of the Reddit crowd, I guess).
We got little feel of Everett's enormous fame, as I'm guessing crowd scenes or any evidence of flamboyance are expensive to film.
At Wrigley Field, while everyone else was guessing the crowd count, she'd pinch my arm and whisper: "Do you know how many stadiums-full it takes to reach 6 million dead relatives?" When I was stopped at a train crossing, she'd sit in the back, kicking my seat, daring me to imagine a one-way ride in a cattle car.
