From the school that produced Bob Costas and Marv Albert; the above story checks out.Quote:
Originally Posted by Timberridge
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From the school that produced Bob Costas and Marv Albert; the above story checks out.Quote:
Originally Posted by Timberridge
In essence, yes. The vacumn cleaner was a kids science kit so it was miniature. Suction attached to the bowl, exhaust into the beer ball. Guy that created it was busted at the syracuse Airport in 86 picking up 26 pounds of weed shipped from Arizona. Lots of weird shit went down, lots of fun times as well. Quite a bit of overlap.Quote:
Originally Posted by Timberridge
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That's awesome.Quote:
Originally Posted by Flounder
If you like Italian women.Quote:
Originally Posted by wooley12
Yup. If you are only trying to survive and eat tasty food that’s bad for you it’s the perfect exit plan for the Apocalypse. I’m already set up like you outline above. Cosign. It’s one of my two exit plans, the one I will use if the world is on fire. Plus who would ever look for you there?
My exit plan if the world is intact is to move to the Caribbean and sell Red Stripe on the beach.
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Originally Posted by BmillsSkier
No “the”. It’s just ‘Cuse.Quote:
Originally Posted by Timberridge
For some reason this always makes me irrationally angry. Like when people call A Basin A-Bay.
Took me a while to get used to Toga when I lived there.
For some reason I find it jarring when people refer to Ticonderoga as “Ti”.Quote:
Originally Posted by Benny Profane
Growing up in Chittenden county, VT, we always called it Fort Ti. Bunch of unruly Green Mountain Boys.Quote:
Originally Posted by Brownski
I loved visiting the fort as a kid but felt very betrayed when I brought my kids and realized it was a rebuild/ replica.Quote:
Originally Posted by riser3
ha, they had to, the locals stole the stones it was made out of when it was unoccupied.Quote:
Originally Posted by Brownski
7 miles down the road from Apalachin, New York, go figure. When IBM was ruling the roost there were more blonde office girls with Swedish and Dutch ancestors perhaps.Quote:
Originally Posted by Stu Gotz
This story seems pertinent to the discussion. On one hand it reinforces the rattlesnakes=upstate equation but it also shows how close Rockland County is to the city since the victim was evacuated by an NYPD helicopter to a city hospital.
http://hudsonvalley.news12.com/story/42300178/nypd-aviation-rescues-woman-bit-by-rattlesnake-in-harriman-state-park?
every towny there calls it TiQuote:
Originally Posted by Brownski
she was taken to nyack. proof cops are the worst right there.Quote:
Originally Posted by Brownski
I guess I didn’t read it closely enough. She went to Nyack first but ended up at Jacoby. Nyack hospital does kind of suck in my opinion but that may be a personal bias, as I’ve had bad experiences with them.Quote:
Originally Posted by ml242
I know. I’m not saying they should stop. I can’t explain why I don’t like it. It just sounds gross to me, the way some people don’t like to hear “slack”, “moist” or “meal”. I know somebody that hates the word “pork” - and not just as a verb.Quote:
Originally Posted by DBdude
A good friend is from Malone. I've been there a couple times. No matter how you slice it, Malone is upstate. Hell it's almost in Ontario.
nobody ever answered you, which is kind of the answer. Rockland County is the bastard stepchild that nobody wants to claim and everyone ignores. It's almost kinda Jersey.Quote:
Originally Posted by Brownski
Holy fuck that’s accurate. What is with the way they say the word Italian?Quote:
Originally Posted by EWG
I'd just be annoyed if they had already scooped me up in the chopper and then dropped me off halfway to home. Like a cabbie that doesn't want to cross the bridge to get you to the boroughs.Quote:
Originally Posted by Brownski
Helos and cops aside- regarding the cab situation, I feel your pain there. Multiple times I attempted to stage a sit-in protest in the back of a yellow cab that wouldn’t drive me back to the Bronx. Of course, every time my wife talked me out of it and secured alternative transportation. She’s so sensible.Quote:
Originally Posted by ml242
i have a remarkably similar story where my aunt prevented me from making a very large fool of myself trying to head to brooklyn. i think back and cringe, it was so bad and could have been so much worse. one of those things where sometimes even when you’re in the right, there are no winners. live and learn, i hope!
Hmmmm...just considering your handle here...are you a person of color?Quote:
Originally Posted by Brownski
No. I have an aunt that insists we’re 1/16 Native American but I’m pretty sure she’s full of shit. These were simple “I’m never gonna find a fare for the return trip up there” incidents.Quote:
Originally Posted by Benny Profane
Yeah, you nailed it. Hopefully I’ve learned something over the years. No guarantees though.Quote:
Originally Posted by ml242
This actually begs the question: who is more better-equipped to determine what Upstate is?
The bridge and tunnel crowd?
Those actually living in the City (Manhattan only you poors)?
Those actually residing in points Upstate?
Western New Yorkers/Bills Mafioso/Ontario?
The TRG brain trust?
the latter, duh
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Originally Posted by BmillsSkier
Oh, ok, just asking. That's probably why you made it to the back seat. I drove a NYC taxi, and, yeah, outer borough trips sucked, so you avoided them big time. Gypsy territory.Quote:
Originally Posted by Brownski
If you wanted to fuck with the dude, never leave the cab and call the cops, just to waste his time. Take his number and report him. That actually works sometime.
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Originally Posted by Benny Profane
The Iceman spoketh Benny, sorry.Quote:
Originally Posted by ötzi
And you are correct. So there is that.Quote:
Originally Posted by ml242
I wonder, is this the genesis of the Gypsy Cab in Royal Tenenbaums, shot in Harlem?Quote:
Originally Posted by Benny Profane
There is a wegmans in NYC and in VA. All of that is now upstate NY.Quote:
Originally Posted by Timberridge
Wegmans is a WESTERN NY brand. But still, we prefer you shop at your closest branch rather than make the pilgrimage to Brown Street (which is now a piece of shit diner).Quote:
Originally Posted by Ottime
Me. I can see the Adirondacks from my town. They are definitely not upstate. Upstate is south of here. :PQuote:
Originally Posted by BmillsSkier
Gypsy cabs were just dudes with sketchy cars that ran illegal taxis back in the day before Uber when the outer boroughs were neglected. For that matter, they may still exist. I don’t know. I haven’t lived (or drunk) down there for many years.Quote:
Originally Posted by BmillsSkier
There’s one in Jersey now too, right across the border. Frankly I don’t see what the big deal was.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ottime
There's one in upper Baltimore county. That fucks up the calculations, right?Quote:
Originally Posted by Ottime
Uber is the new, 21st century gypsy.Quote:
Originally Posted by Brownski
I'd like to see a National Geographic expedition take on this last-best quest: to finally map and discover Upstate NY. Kinda like a Lewis+Clark journey, but with Bmills, Timba, Otzi, and Benny. Maybe throw in Fast Fred as a wild card, or Stu Gotz. Butter's neighbor Kenny Burns can make the film about it, and Joe Pesci can narrate the journal entries the crew writes down every night by the fire while blitzed out of their mimds:
August 17, 2020
Meriwether Benny
there were three beaver taken this morning by the party. the men prefer the flesh of this anamal, to that of any other which we have, or are able to procure at this moment. I eat very heartily of the beaver myself, and think it excellent; particularly the tale, and liver. i wash it down with liquids from Matt's balls, which was bland and flat but the a favorite of the locals so i swallow heartily
I submit that the last great frontier was never AK, it was simply Upstate New York.