Wow, an article regarding Ithaca on my birthday, no less. Whoo!

robmilmel: When you see a place that looks like the town in Deliverance, you're getting close.

huh? When did you last go there? When I lived there I didn't notice that at all.

Lived three years in Ithaca. robmilmel is talking out of his ass. There is more in Ithaca than in SLC, where you are now (not that that's saying much).

Lovely little town. Wish I could go back.

I would like to cast my vote in box "C"-- Who gives a fark?

Obligatory for those who went to college in Ithaca:

High above Cayuga's waters, there's a fountain on knowledge
Some say its Ezra's creation, we say it's Ithaca College

/Columbia Marching Band
//Wife's side of the family is lousy with Cornellians and Ithaca Collegians.
///Big Red Band can suck it.

Wisconsin:

A has been... who never was... and wants to be again.

Byt..but... we got cheese... and... duh Packers... and... uh... fat chicks.. -no, wait-

/sigh
//An American behind the Cheese Curtain...

Doesn't Fark have some filter to stop SEVERELY not news from intermingling with the not news?

Eat my moose, ctobio.

approves

My band Wicked Lester played Ithaca once back in 1971. Me and my friend Stanley Eisen almost wiped that town right off the map.

Whatever... we have an old family recipe dating back to 1813 that includes vanilla ice cream, chicken cream gravy and black-eyed peas.

This is like Milton, Mass and New Haven, Connecticut fighting over who had the first certifiable idiot to become president

WOOOOOO!
GO WISCONSIN!

woodysgate,

Damn, you beat me to it.

/DNRTFA
//Never heard of Ithaca before the movie

Officials on both sides said it isn't clear yet how these "sundae wars" will play out.

There are officials for this?

robmilmel
Trust me, there's absolutely NOTHING else to crow about in Ithaca.
Don't you know what Odysseus said about Ithaca? He said it was a good place for raising sons. Now THAT's a back handed compliment for you.

Go Wisconsin! Fark them Cornellians!
/I fark a Cornellian every chance I get, my wife graduated there.

robmilmel

I had to drive out to Ithaca college for a job interview. 3 hours of bust up farm houses and empty fields. Deliverance is the perfect word for it. I drove past a house that had advertised llama rides. Once you are right on top of the college though, there's a nice little college town there. I think it has more to do with cornell than Ithaca.

No, definately T'Rivers...Only one endorsed by the National Register of Deeds.

/doesn't actually care
//just pulling for Wisconsin

Fark Ithaca. T'rivers is where it's at. The sundae place there is pretty cool, and plays up the whole thing as a marketing ploy pretty well. Apparently they're broadening their audience. But they do make a kick-ass sundae, and Ithaca can shuck it.

According to the post of sundaes at Wikipedia, there are many other places that claim to have invented the sundae, including my hometown of Plainfield, Illinois. So I always heard since I was a young kid that that is where they came from. Weird thing is the story seems to be pretty close to other sundae creation stories. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sundae

From what I've found, the origina of the name if not the thing itself traces to Evanston, Illinois. Why Sundae? Because a morals law prevented the sale of ice cream on Sunday. So an enterprising ice cream vendor got creative.

Macthulhu: Whatever great mind may have invented the sundae, they've been overrun by a lot of this:


Lol, hippies have always been in Ithaca. They even have their own money! (pops)

For people with their own money, they sure do spend a lot of time lounging around on the commons asking for other people's...

I believe that The Battle of the Network Stars should be fought with guns.

Ithaca definately has a lot of hippies. Not looking forward to that part of the city. Ithaca was named "The most enlightened town in America". Elitism like that makes me want to gag.

I have been to Two Rivers and eaten their Sundaes. I shall test Ithaca's and submit myself as the official judge.

/going to Cornell for grad school

I hate that cliché.

An "issue" between a city in NY state and a town in Wisconsin, reported by a news affiliate in Sacramento, California. WTF?

RUKIDDINME: I would like to cast my vote in box "C"-- Who gives a fark?

Agreed.

Although I have to say that pic posted by Macthulhu is really making me laugh a lot.

I enjoy seeing the guy in obvious distress. Extra points that he's a hippie. And more points awarded because it's not me. Hee hee.

I think the real debate should be which town is more decrepit and boring. I vote for Two Rivers.

RALEX

Yeah, he looks like hes choking on his own hemp necklace

trust me, Two Rivers needs this.


/lives close by

They don't mention the H. L. Mencken hoax connection. Two Rivers has some splainin' to do.

I love Ithaca (grew up in Trumansburg, went to college at IC and lived there until I was 30) but it's too damn cold in the winter. I got so tired of seeing a little bit of gray anemic sun on the way to work, then getting off work at 5:30 and the sun was already down.

If you like fall colors, go for a drive along rt. 79 North of Ithaca on the west side of Cayuga Lake. Beautiful rolling hills covered with red, orange, and yellow...

/moved to Hawaii

Well the first "Hot Fudge Sundae" was invented in a smalltown called Hollywood, CA by C.C. Brown in 1906(good enough 4 Elvis)

atpgod-
"We have the first "real" McDonald's... Des Plaines, IL"

Liar! it's San Berdoo, baby;
http://66.102.7.104/search?q=cache:Af0m1x55o2gJ:www.wemweb.com/chr66a/sbr66_mu seum/sbr66_museum.html+%22san+bernardino%22,+mcdonalds&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd= 1

A true Mickey D's historian does not recognize Kroc's "Vichy" McDonald's in Des Plaines-go to Downey McDonald's & eat your words

For people with their own money, they sure do spend a lot of time lounging around on the commons asking for other people's...



ha ha, zing!

(live above the Commons for two years while working there)

I guess the good citizens of The People's Democratic Republic of Ithaca have given up on the fight for democracy in Burma and the impeachment of George W. Bush to deal with more pressing matters.

/lived in Ithaca for 2 years
//definitely don't miss it
///except for High Noon AC

What I want to know is why they decided to spell it weird.

Ugh, Ithaca. Only thing good about that place is that my ex-boyfriend moved there.
Stupid stoned hippie with a coke habit. fark off you asshole.

/you're also lousy in bed

I like Ithaca. I lived downtown this past year (I'm a Cornellian), and there are definitely some nuts around, but it's also a hip little place. I also live 50 miles away from Two Rivers (being a native Wisconsinite), and I love it here too. Didn't know about the ice cream sundae thing, for either place.

Jadedgrl: Stupid stoned hippie with a coke habit


Yep, there are a lot of those. He'll fit right in.