The Official Argue About Where Upstate NY Is Thread

**BmillsSkier** · 03-23-2021, 08:49 PM

Originally Posted by huckbucket

There's still an unanswered request for someone to tick Swain off the list this year. So let's sweeten the deal before the snow is gone ... if you go, you're a stone's throw from Cartwrights Maple Tree Inn. All you can f'n eat buckwheat pancakes. I still remember the year me and two buddies did the round-trip from ROC on bikes. Arrived at Cartwrights at the halfway point and proceeded to double our weight before turning back around.

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Originally Posted by m2711c

it helps put the grey back in your day......

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yep.

Fuck you guys are great at beer slogans.

Sign me up for a couple cases. It’s been too long since I’ve seen a beautiful springtime grey sky.

**half-fast** · 03-23-2021, 08:51 PM

Definitely Song. New bar lower right. Couldn’t find Genny Black so I picked up some Rohrbach’s Instruments of destruction

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**Brownski** · 03-23-2021, 09:07 PM

That some good looking beer there HF. And don’t think I missed the Granny Smiths in the fruit basket either. Good choice.
Huck, I want to get to Swain. Especially with it being on the Indy Pass, I swear I want to get there. But it’s so goddamn far. I think if me and and some guy from Detroit left home at the same time, it’d be a race to see who got there first. Upstate is fucking big.

**Brownski** · 03-23-2021, 09:11 PM

Originally Posted by Benny Profane

Not yet. Kinda sucky on the Westchester side, but, pretty easy to start there, get through Nyack, and south to Manhattan. Classic NYC resident ride. Now it's two bridges.

Yeah, I was thinking about a round trip but it’s about forty miles. I’m not in shape for it right now. I want to be fit enough to do the ride with a stop at the PunchBowl for a Guinness without killing myself.

**huckbucket** · 03-23-2021, 09:24 PM

Originally Posted by Brownski

Huck, I want to get to Swain. Especially with it being on the Indy Pass, I swear I want to get there. But it’s so goddamn far. I think if me and and some guy from Detroit left home at the same time, it’d be a race to see who got there first. Upstate is fucking big.

Oh it's vast alright. But I don't think you heard me.

All you can eat ....

Buck

Wheat

Pancakes

(and bacon)

**Timberridge** · 03-24-2021, 06:57 AM

Originally Posted by huckbucket

Oh it's vast alright. But I don't think you heard me.

All you can eat ....

Buck

Wheat

Pancakes

(and bacon)

This is why the Upstate has an obesity problem. When I lived in Buffalo every place was trying to outportion the place down the road. Had I stayed there I would be 285# and diabetic now. Which I suppose gets would get me to the front of the line for a Covid shot, but not much else.

https://www.syracuse.com/news/2015/0...se_people.html

**BmillsSkier** · 03-24-2021, 08:03 AM

How else you gonna lumberjack it through 273 days of cold and gray?

On an empty stomach? I hope not.

**Timberridge** · 03-24-2021, 08:18 AM

Don't forget the wind. It's the windiest place east of Mt. Washington.

Somehow a casual lunch or breakfast there would turn into a Man vs. Food episode.

**Benny Profane** · 03-24-2021, 09:05 AM

So Syracuse is the Alabama of NY state. Got it.

**BmillsSkier** · 03-24-2021, 09:09 AM

Originally Posted by Benny Profane

So Syracuse is the Alabama of NY state. Got it.

Alabama has some smokin hot women and seriously good food. And a bit of ocean too.

I’m sure we can work on a better analogy.

**huckbucket** · 03-24-2021, 09:15 AM

Originally Posted by Timberridge

Somehow a casual lunch or breakfast there would turn into a Man vs. Food episode.

ummm ... well .... duh?

**Timberridge** · 03-24-2021, 09:33 AM

Originally Posted by BmillsSkier

Alabama has some smokin hot women and seriously good food. And a bit of ocean too.

I’m sure we can work on a better analogy.

I'll second Alabama and add Texas to the hot women states. An Alabama 8 is a solid 10 in the Northeast. With one caveat. They do struggle a bit when they come up north and hit the drier air.

On this subject with respect to Upstate---and this is just a personal observation based on visits to the area--but Fairport seems to have a fair share of beautiful women.

**rideit** · 03-24-2021, 09:51 AM

Originally Posted by BmillsSkier

Alabama has some smokin hot women and seriously good food. And a bit of ocean too.

I’m sure we can work on a better analogy.

The SU campus is a wonderland for creepers.

**BmillsSkier** · 03-24-2021, 10:05 AM

Originally Posted by rideit

The SU campus is a wonderland for creepers.

I'm not sure that's a positive. Maybe it is, maybe it isn't?

**rideit** · 03-24-2021, 10:38 AM

I don’t know, but 35 years ago, it was a wonderland for me, that I know!

**Timberridge** · 03-24-2021, 11:00 AM

*Upstate Update*

The dog lady finally emailed my wife back and said it wasn't a scam. Back to getting a dog we are. The family is not digging "Onan-dog-a." "Hudson" seems to be the favorite. I suppose I'm ok with it even if it conjures up images of PCB laden sediment.

**JohnF** · 03-24-2021, 11:04 AM

Originally Posted by Timberridge

*Upstate Update*

The dog lady finally emailed my wife back and said it wasn't a scam. Back to getting a dog we are. The family is not digging "Onan-dog-a." "Hudson" seems to be the favorite. I suppose I'm ok with it even if it conjures up images of PCB laden sediment.

Onondaga lake has pcb's and so much more!

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**rideit** · 03-24-2021, 11:05 AM

Just name the dog ‘Superfund’

**BmillsSkier** · 03-24-2021, 11:13 AM

In recent years I've noticed a lot of my peers naming their kids Hudson which I always found amusing on a couple fronts, first, because its the name of my hometown and I can't separate the two when I'm introduced to the kid, and secondly, I always thought Hudson was a golden retriever name, not a kid's.

YMMV.

**RShea** · 03-24-2021, 11:18 AM

Originally Posted by BmillsSkier

Alabama has some smokin hot women and seriously good food. And a bit of ocean too.

I’m sure we can work on a better analogy.

New York also has (whether these are all in Upstate or not is what this thread is about) smokin hot women, seriously good food, has a bit of ocean also, but not all of those 3 maybe in Upstate as best as we can tell from this thread.

**BmillsSkier** · 03-24-2021, 11:23 AM

Originally Posted by RShea

New York also has (whether these are all in Upstate or not is what this thread is about) smokin hot women, seriously good food, has a bit of ocean also, but not all of those 3 maybe in Upstate as best as we can tell from this thread.

Correct, those all largely fall under the purview of the downstaters. Not entirely exclusively mind you, but certainly the oceany bits.

**rideit** · 03-24-2021, 11:34 AM

I would name a Golden “Butternuts”.

**BmillsSkier** · 03-24-2021, 11:40 AM

Originally Posted by rideit

I would name a Golden “Butternuts”.

Got me thinking, I'd name a lab Stewart.

**Timberridge** · 03-24-2021, 11:42 AM

Originally Posted by BmillsSkier

In recent years I've noticed a lot of my peers naming their kids Hudson which I always found amusing on a couple fronts, first, because its the name of my hometown and I can't separate the two when I'm introduced to the kid, and secondly, I always thought Hudson was a golden retriever name, not a kid's.

YMMV.

As an ode to Atlanta, I think a kid or dog named "Buckhead" would be fun.

Originally Posted by BmillsSkier

Got me thinking, I'd name a lab Stewart.

Hmm, it's not a lab, but I like Stewart. Though I have a neighbor named Stewart.