The Official Argue About Where Upstate NY Is Thread

[Brownski]

I wonder, is this the genesis of the Gypsy Cab in Royal Tenenbaums, shot in Harlem?

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.

[Brownski]

There is a wegmans in NYC and in VA. All of that is now upstate NY.

There’s one in Jersey now too, right across the border. Frankly I don’t see what the big deal was.

[Benny Profane]

There is a wegmans in NYC and in VA. All of that is now upstate NY.

There's one in upper Baltimore county. That fucks up the calculations, right?

[Benny Profane]

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.

Uber is the new, 21st century gypsy.

[muted]

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.

[BC13]

No love for heids in Liverpool?

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Not a big hot dog guy, so I never got into the whole red vs white hot and all the various brands from Buffalo to Plattsburgh.

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[byates1]

so i've skied lake tear to whatever hike trail junction, solo, in january. cold. twice

headwaters of the hudson. upstate.

pussies

[BC13]

All this talk of Utica Club and Genny Cream brings me back to the infamous Matt's Beerball. Matt's is the parent company that makes UC as a premium beer. They named their shittier cheaper beer after themselves. And they put the shittiest of that in the beerballs.

The best thing about them was shooting them with a pellet gun when they were empty, the pellet could go through the plastic to get inside there but it wouldn't have enough power to go though the other side to get back out so it would just spin around inside the ball at high speed making this weird sound that only a Matt's beerball shot with a pellet gun can make.



From the very relevant newyorkupstate.com btw

Matt's beer balls were a fixture during my teen years.

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[BC13]

No “the”. It’s just ‘Cuse.

For some reason this always makes me irrationally angry. Like when people call A Basin A-Bay.

C'mon man, every upstater knows the only A-Bay is Alexandria Bay!

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[BC13]

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.

Malone...the right arm pit of the state. That is one depressing town. They don't even have decent heart attack food.

But, it beats the hell out of St. Regis Falls.



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[BC13]

Holy fuck that’s accurate. What is with the way they say the word Italian?

Absolutely. I grew up with every adult pronouncing it as though it was spelled "eye talian". I stopped correcting my dad 30 yrs ago.

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[Danno]

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?

Manhattanites (and former manhattanites), LDO.

[Benny Profane]

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.

Instead of the native American female "guide", a hot Italian Brooklyn babe.

[riser4]

Instead of the native American female "guide", a hot Italian Brooklyn babe.

Does she shave her face or not?

[BmillsSkier]

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.

In.

Instead of the native American female "guide", a hot Italian Brooklyn babe.

This may also be of use when we break through Upstate and land upon Killington.

[Timberridge]

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.

Forget National Geographic, this is the sort of thing TGR does right? I do fear someone is going to kill somebody during the filming, but not before Bunny gets coal rolled by two French Canadians in a F350 just south of Malone and Buttahs discovers his sexuality at the Rainbow Pony in Cheektowaga.

I'd like to toss in a trip to Wooley's family's former bra factory in Troy.

[fastfred]

sorry italian girls just don't do it for me
sometimes I think I can handle a jewish girl, then I come to my senses
the things you learn growing up on the east coast

[Timberridge]

^ Italian girls are a bit like salmon. All sleek and silvery until they hit spawning age then weird things happen to their physical appearance.

[fastfred]

^ Italian girls are a bit like salmon. All sleek and silvery until they hit spawning age then weird things happen to their physical appearance.

LOL, that was good and true
then they end up on some reality tv show with lots of makeup and their cousins best friends sisters wife has a hook up for cosmetic work

[fastfred]

and to answer the orginal question
downstate is the city, long island, westchester, orange, and rockland.
The catskills is the transition area and everything after that is upstate with varying degrees of woodchuck backwoods people

[BmillsSkier]

I wonder if the expedition will follow the canals used by the ancient Upstaters like Wooley.

[Marshall Tucker]

^ Italian girls are a bit like salmon

We liked 'em at THE USC. Until they spoke. Mah GAwd that northern new jersey accent is just balls ugly.

[AdironRider]

Malone...the right arm pit of the state. That is one depressing town. They don't even have decent heart attack food.

But, it beats the hell out of St. Regis Falls.



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My wife did a bunch of student teaching in St. Regis Falls. That place truly was depressing.

Malone does have Titus Mountain though, which is hands down the best small town ski area in the world if you ask me.

[riser4]

My wife did a bunch of student teaching in St. Regis Falls. That place truly was depressing.

Malone does have Titus Mountain though, which is hands down the best small town ski area in the world if you ask me.

If you live there. However, that's a longer drive than I care for to ski a small town area. That said, there are a few folks over here that go there. Weirdos.

[AdironRider]

And that, in essence, is what makes it so great. It's just a bunch of college kids and locals in snowmobiling gear having a raucous good time.