“Was that good ?”
Exactly, add two odds, get an even. Add another odd, back to odd.
Add evens forever, only evens.
You’re thinking at least 14 years ahead 
Some Context: A guy once asked me where he could get something to eat. Now keep in mind this wasn’t a bum looking for a handout, nor a foreign tourist who didn’t know our strange American ways. This was a well-dressed, older gentleman with a Midwestern accent, who asked where he could eat a meal. Within eyesight of us both were a McDonald’s, a Long John Silver’s, a Red Lobster, an Arby’s, and a Cici’s Pizza. Somehow he didn’t know that those places all served food.
That reminds me - Orange County Public Schools required me to take the ESOL test in my first month of US high school because I came from another country (the UK!). Though I think it may have been because I said there was another language spoken at home (even though it wasn’t the primary language in our home and I made it clear that I didn’t even speak it).
Was the grading scale A, B, C, Let’s Call The Whole Thing Off?
East 57th Street is nowhere near 7th Avenue. Carnegie Hall is on WEST 57th and 7th.
Guy: “What’s tomorrow’s date?”
Me: “Well, today’s the 10th.”
Guy: “Nah, man, what’s *tomorrow’s *date?”
Me: “Umm. It’s, uhh, the 11th.”
Guy: “Thanks”
The guy asking was a local celebrity college basketball player, so a lot of people I went to school with know who it is. Built like a linebacker, 6’6" 250lbs, and I didn’t know him personally, so I was too nervous to mess with him.
I thought that was the joke. Nevermind. I get it now.
I was speaking to a friend of mine about computers; we were on the subject of cooling mechanisms, like heat-sinks and fans. I mentioned occasionally the transistors in computers give off so much heat that liquid nitrogen cooling is required.
He asked, “Is there any such thing as liquid nitrogen gas? What’s that called?”.
Well, now that’s just a dumb answer. 
I don’t get it. I mean, I get the original joke. Why does it matter where you are geographically, the joke works anywhere, doesn’t it?
Is it so outlandish that the liquid state of something might have a common name that’s different? Ok, I’ll stop being a curmudgeon.
Typical Sagittarius, exaggerating.
Look just be careful where you go in Syracuse, alright?
That is a reasonable question, and this answer is wrong. Northern lights are called that because it’s visible at higher latitudes (far north). But it can be visible in any part of the sky.
snerk
The whole thing was bizarre. The teacher administering the test (“Mrs. Rivera”) barely spoke English herself, and the test was so basic that I can’t imagine how it could have been used to measure a high school level of English fluency.
The first question consisted of a comic-style image of a boy sitting on some steps, and asked, “where is the boy?” It then gave three multiple choice answer options (“the boy is on the steps,” “the boy is in a bus,” etc.)
Not sure if this meets the thread criteria, but it’s not uncommon, when someone says “The world is overpopulated,” to be met with the retort, “Well then why don’t you commit suicide, then?”
Don’t know what to tell you then-- they guy was an astronomer, and we did, in fact, face north to see them.
They are called that because they occur at the poles - the northern lights (aurora borealis) at the North Pole, and the southern lights (aurora australis) at the South. They are theoretically visible in any part of the world, but not in any part of the sky. In practice they are not visible from inside the tropics regardless of which direction you look (though there are disputed claims that the southern lights have been seen a few degrees from the Equator).
I’m no expert, but from these images, and many more that you can see by googling “aurora from space”, it seems clear that they do not just occur around the poles. It’s hard to see exactly where they are on the dark globe, but some have city lights below.
cool video too:
