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[jbullar1 at twcny.rr.com (Jim Bullard)]

At 08:44 AM 9/3/2004 -0400, joe miele wrote:
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Jim Bullard" <jbullar1@twcny.rr.com>
>
> > Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens, etc. :) BTW, contrary to the opinion of NYC
>folks,
> > NYC is not all of NY. There is an entire state of NY just North of the
>city.
>
>We Jersey folks call anything north of the Bronx "Upstate."  This comes much
>to the chagrin of a friend of mine who lives in Nyack - "Nyack is "NOT"
>upstate!" or so she says.

Ha! When I was in Jersey (Ft. Dix and Ft. Monmouth) and guys asked where I 
was from I'd say "Upstate NY". "Oh, Yonkers?" they'd reply.
"No, way upstate" said I
"Albany?"
"Syracuse?"
"Buffalo?"
Then I'd have to draw a rough map and show them that all those places are 
in a line, about 1 third of the way up and I'd mark where I lived by the 
Quebec border.
"You have electricity up there?"
They didn't seem to know that a lot of "their" electricity comes from here 
(and Quebec).