TIME TO FREEP THE BEST OF ITHACA POLL

Ithaca Times ^ | 8/14/2002

[Behind Liberal Lines]

"Cast your Best of Ithaca ballot on-line! Be sure to include your name and address, and if you're one of the lucky 10 people chosen at random you'll win a gift certificate for dinner-for-2 at an Ithaca restaurant. Only one entry per person, and any attempts at ballot stuffing will be disqualified. Entries must be received by Friday, August 30."

Okay, Freepers, last year we were able to FREEP this poll so that Cornell's only conservative professor (and Ann Coulter's mentor), Jeremy Rabkin, was voted best professor (funny how that catagory is gone this year...heh).

We were also able to flood the "best reason to leave Ithaca" catagory with complaints that Ithaca was too liberal.

SO LET'S DO IT AGAIN!!!! YEAH!!!!

Click on the source info to go to the poll

As far as putting your name and address down, I believe they only want one if you want to be entered in their drawing for a free meal, so you can leave that blank if you want.

If, however, you want to submit a fake name and address, you can use this site to find every street name in Ithaca (simply go to the "Find your city representative and property information" portion, it has an alphabetical list), pick a street, put in a three digit street number and use "14850" as your zip code).

Names and email addresses are up to you.

And since most of you don't know a lot of Ithaca "local" trivia, here are some suggestions for each catagory:

Best place to have a picnic: put in any of the local parks, Treman, Buttermilk, Stewart, Cass

Best place to take a blind date: Put in any of the following: Madeline's, Simeon's, Statler, Maxie's,Boatyard

Best place to get a caffeine boost: Put in either "Short Stop Deli," "Gimme Coffee," or "Wegman's"

Best place to start an argument: Any of the following: Topless picnics, Ithaca Journal editorial page, Cornell University

Best place to get great customer service: Put in any of the following--Wegman's, Tops, P&C

Best Ithaca neighborhood-Put in "Lansing" actually a fairly conservative suburb) "West Hill," or "out of town"

Best person to be Ithaca's next mayor: Alan Cohen (he is current mayor and is hated by Dems and Greens)

Best local person to become president: Jeremy Rabkin (Ann Coulter's mentor)

Best street performer: Faye Gougakis, John Simon or "Festival juggler")

Best local bachelor: put in "unknown," Matt Guckenheimer, leave blank, "my husband"

Best local bachelorette: Faye Gougakis, unknown, "my wife"

Best right winger: Jeremy Rabkin

Best Marxist: Ithaca Green party, Ben Nichols, no such thing or "a dead marxist"

Best developer: Widewaters (bringing in a Wal Mart liberals can't stand it)

Best developer Ithaca loves to hate: Widewaters

Best classical musician:Victoria Alyce Paterson, Cayuga Vocal Ensemble, Linda Peters

Best advocate for the people: Mark Finklestein (local GOP chair)

Best local school teacher: Tim Rooney (forced to resign on fake racism charges)

Best place to get an eggroll-Wegmans

Best place to eat for under $10-Wegmans or McDonalds

Best place to get a quick lunch-McDonalds

Best place to buy fresh produce-Wegman's

Best place to get a baguette-Wegmans

Best place to get healthy takeout food-Wegmans

Best place to go off your diet-Sheldrake Cafe and Winery

Best drink special-Simeons

Best Thai food-A Taste of Thai or A Taste of Thai

Best place to dance the night away--the Eagle Hotel (it's a real REDNECK BAR)

Best place to take your dog for a walk-put in any of the local parks, Treman, Buttermilk, Stewart, Cass

Best place to go for a run-put in any of the local parks, Treman, Buttermilk, Stewart, Cass

Best place to take the kids on a rainy day-movies, mall or sciencecenter

Best place to get a message: Stress Out

Best local bookstore-Borders (trust me, it'll kill them)

Best secret parking space: Buffalo St. Garage, Cornell Frats or "It's a secret I cant tell you"

Best public access show--On the Right: Mark Finklestein (local GOP chair)

Best Ithaca web site: ISIS

Best speed trap: Cass Park, Trumansburg or Cayuga Heights

Best non-profit organization: THE BOY SCOUTS!!!

Best reason to pretend you're a college student--Dating students, frat parties, so no one thinks you are an aging hippy townie

Best reason to pretend you're a townie--explains your facial hair, makes snobby professors speak to you, justifies your dissolute lifestyle, insert your own insult.

Best reason to love Ithaca--NONE, Keeps the weirdos from invading the rest of upstate

Best reason to leave Ithaca--too liberal, full of Marxists, stuck in the 1960s, CITY OF EVIL, too elitist, too PC, etc.

[Behind Liberal Lines]

Good Luck and GOOD FREEPIN!

[Behind Liberal Lines]

Oh, I forgot one more reason to leave Ithaca: CONVICTED COP KILLERS allowed to speak at graduations!!!

[Behind Liberal Lines]

Ping

[Rodney King]

Done. That Wegman's place must be good.

[Behind Liberal Lines]

Done. That Wegman's place must be good.

It actually is.

It's also a big corporate grocery chain out of Rochester NY.

I want to offset all the damn hippies who will try to get "Greenstar Organic Co op" in those catagories.

[Aurelius]

BUMP

[general_re]

Just put your address down as "500 South Meadow Street, Ithaca, NY 14850" - that ought to cheese them off.

Danny thanks ya ;)

[Under the Radar]

FReeped and it felt good!

[Behind Liberal Lines]

Just put your address down as "500 South Meadow Street, Ithaca, NY 14850" - that ought to cheese them off.

I would love to but I don't want to tip them off.

[Behind Liberal Lines]

Ooops.

The best public affairs show is called "Right Angle " not "On the Right."

[NativeNewYorker]

Done. Thanks.

For best street performer, I put "bare chested saggy hags".

[RippleFire]

BUMP

[BigRedQuark]

Cornell Grad Student here.

Don't forget to mention CASE/UAW - the group that is trying to unionize grad students at Cornell. Yes, that's UAW as in United Auto Workers. Here is a thread about this silliness: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/684194/posts. The vote for whether or not to unionize happens in October. I know the chances that grad students will not elect to form a union are slim to none. But it would be good if some opposition got some coverage from the Times. Thanks for reading...

[BigRedQuark]

Hi, Just realized that the link doesn't work

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/684194/posts

And here's another

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/716788/posts

[Dogrobber]

My responses on the "free text" questions:

Best reason to pretend you're a college student

To cover up for the fact that you are an aging, overweight, brain-fried refugee from the Sixties awash in a sea of LSD colored liberal ideas discarded by the rest of the world as it went forward to adulthood.

Best reason to pretend you're a townie

To explain to your out of state relations (the ones that aren't married to each other) why you have never amounted to much and are always seen with young boys coming out of the local adult bookstore.

Best reason to love Ithaca

It keeps a good portion of the upstate, goat copulating left wing wackos in one place so that the CDC can isolate whatever brain-damaging virus that caused it and limit the scope of the surgical strike required to mop it up.

Best reason to leave Ithaca

Because it is the City of Evil!

[Soaring Feather]

Freeped em!!!!

I am proud of myself!!!

[jigsaw]

#15 - ROTFLMAO

[Benson_Carter]

heh heh heh

[yep willow its me fed]

Freep-a-ronied

[Behind Liberal Lines]

I just noticed that they changed the last few questions since yesterday (I wonder if it was the influx of "Ithaca is the City of Evil" answers to "best reason to leave Ithaca"), in case anyone wants to delete their cookies and FREEP again.

Once again, my suggested answers follow but feel free to come up with your own:

Best reason to run for local government-- To get a republican elected/Stop the Green party/Stop the Democrats

Best new development proposal for Ithaca-- Wal Mart

Best way to anger an Ithacan--Be a republican

Best way to make an Ithacan happy--spout liberal cliches

Best reason to attend a Common Council meeting--watch them flush our tax dollars down the toilet of socialism

Ithaca is the City of Evil.