21.   He was to play the nonspeaking role of a snoozing subway rider.

22.   His grinning face surrounds subway riders in advertisements for HIP.

23.   Hundreds of subway riders know his name.

24.   In a similar incident a week ago, a teen-age subway rider was burned by an incendiary device that ignited, setting his coat afire.

25.   In one commercial, for example, an increasingly confused man is sandwiched between two other subway riders discussing mutual funds in jaw-breaking jargon.

26.   In Paris, on the other hand, subway riders are left to their own wits.

27.   Instead, subway riders buy tickets from machines, and there are spot checks to catch cheaters.

28.   It was the second time this year that a subway rider has been pushed from a platform by a stranger.

29.   Linda Mugleston has a delightfully drawn, continuing bit as a compulsively chatty subway rider.

30.   New York subway riders hear this stuff every day, with performers of every persuasion holding forth in forlorn corners or on imaginary stages in the busiest stations.