Ithaca is Gorges In Rear-View Mirror:tribute to the most God-forsaken hell-hole in America

Cornell Review ^ | 5/1/2003 | G. Quentin Mull

[Behind Liberal Lines]

Ithaca is the City of Evil.

[Behind Liberal Lines]

This guy makes me look like the president of the chamber of commerce-ping

[mvpel]

Ithaca, hidden in its secluded (and deluded) little corner of New York, is a world of idealism run amuck. This is a town in which a million dollars were spent to make up “Ithaca Hours”—a communist’s dream—a currency in which one hour of one’s labour (no matter what the labour was) is equal to one Ithaca Buck. This funny money is actually being used in legal transactions.

This criticism of the Ithaca Hours system is entirely unfounded, and is based on ignorance. If you pay a dentist for a half hour of work, you might give him three or four "hour" certificates.

It's a way to keep money circulating in the local community among local businesses, instead of being siphoned out by the truckload through Big Box stores.

[John Beresford Tipton]

You just wait 'til Ulysses returns, he straightened Ithica once, he can do it again!

[Constitution Day]

Hilarious!!

[Billthedrill]

I hate these travelogue pieces - durn it, he should just spit it out - did he like the place or not?

[Zavien Doombringer]

[Behind Liberal Lines]

I hate these travelogue pieces - durn it, he should just spit it out - did he like the place or not?

ROTFLMELAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[thatsnotnice]

This funny money is actually being used in legal transactions.

That’s amazing.

I’d like to get my hands on an Ithaca Buck just for fun. If I lived there I’d be thinking about getting Ithaca Bucks (I wonder if they have higher denominations) and using a scanner and printer to make myself an Ithaca Millionaire.

Certainly the feds won’t care if you’re forging Ithaca Bucks.

[brownie]

Gorges? This sounds SERIES. It could be HUGH. As in, there was a series man, who was very gorges, and boy was he hugh!!!

[babyface00]

It's a way to keep money circulating in the local community among local businesses, instead of being siphoned out by the truckload through Big Box stores

Huh? Please explain, I could really use a laugh this afternoon.

[AnnaZ]

Gorges? This sounds SERIES. It could be HUGH. As in, there was a series man, who was very gorges, and boy was he hugh!!!

Thank you. I was waiting for that.

[Under the Radar]

Just DAMN! And here I thought *I* was bitter...

[Phantom Lord]

Your a better man than me for sticking around up there.

[Phantom Lord]

Bump

[NativeNewYorker]

I was reading this over the phone to a pal in Alabama...

[Behind Liberal Lines]

It's a popular local bumpersticker:

But this one is starting to see some support too:

;-)

[Random Access]

Ithaca Bucks? Arn't bucks the male faction of the deer family? Weren't black males once referred to as bucks? This is a sexist and racist term. Has Ithica gone conservative?

[randog]

If I lived there I’d be thinking about getting Ithaca Bucks (I wonder if they have higher denominations) and using a scanner and printer to make myself an Ithaca Millionaire.

Hmmmmmm....you bring up a good point. Liberals in general always assume that human beings are good natured and honest, and Ithicans in specific assume that nobody would ever dare cheat a monetary system with holes big enough to drive a Peterbuilt through. I say we put this theory to the test: print up a few hundred thousand Ithica bucks and just dump them around town (the university would be a good place). Let's see how honest the Ithicans really are--would they turn them in or.........???

[headsonpikes]

C'mon, get with the program.

Everyone just photo-copies the amount of money they need...and NO more!

It'll work for sure! Screw them New York banks and especially the Big Boxes!

I dropped one on my toe once.