Taxi Payant be more scientific-related while "Taxi Payant"'s questions can be about virtually any topic, from geography to sports to pop culture to even general trivia about the city of Montréal, Québec, where the show is filmed in. On numerous episodes, Barrette is even seen outside the cab, asking general knowledge questions to strangers on the street for an easy $10. Taxi Payant Taxi Payant began airing on September 3, 2009 on V, and is hosted by Alexandre Barrette. It airs in Québec instead of the American version of the series, which is seen on the U.S. Discovery Channel cable network and
Taxi dancer in the United States, it is still practiced in some other countries. The term "taxi dancer" comes from the fact that, as with a taxi-cab driver, the dancer's pay is proportional to the time he or she spends dancing with the customer. Patrons in a taxi-dance hall typically purchased dance tickets for ten cents each, which gave rise to the term "dime-a-dance girl". Other names for a taxi dancer are "dance hostess", "taxi" (in Argentina), and "nickel hopper" because out of that dime they typically earned five cents. Taxi dancing traces its origins to the Barbary Coast district of San