primary source of nomenclature
state college: german
rochester: american indian dialects
attitude about the larger scheme of things
state college: what other scheme of things? we are!
rochester: even though we're kind of losers, we have a good time anyway.
secretly wishes it could be like
state college: ann arbor
rochester: albany, or really NYC, but there's no hope of that, at all
puts down to make itself feel better
state college: altoona
rochester: buffalo
significant to its history
state college: joe paterno, still alive, living history, eternity alive in state college
rochester: the erie canal, abolition and suffragettes, a long time ago
cuisine
state college: french fries on an iceberg lettuce salad
rochester: the so-called garbage plate, which as far as we can tell is like fries covered in sloppy joe stuff, cheese, hot dogs? onions, etc., etc.nachos? tomatoes, etc., etc.
fun in the sun
state college: nice hiking, pretty mountains, rails-to-trails
rochester: beaches on lake ontario, but you often can't go in because bacteria levels are too high. not that you'd want to, after eating a garbage plate.
native species
state college: "hats," aka "beavis," aka "possible date rapists," aka "matt/josh/nate," aka "abercrombie"
rochester: the fat cigar-smoking guy in our neighborhood who walks his cat on a leash
UPDATE: chad has pointed out that this makes it seem like we don't like rochester, but we do. we like it very, very, very, very much. i mean "losers" above in the most affectionate possible way. indeed, a significant aspect of my very own character and history is loserish. and in The Town That Film Built, i.e., Rochester, we've got cool movies and movie houses galore, whereas in state college the stupid cinema company went bankrupt, and yet they still show the latest tara reid movie on four screens. (in altoona, in a theater owned by this same company, we saw a movie with sound in MONO, as in it sounded like a little panasonic tape player, but that's altoona for you.)
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Ha! Awesome. Champaign is a Madison wannabe. Which it will never achieve because Madison actually has water. And we make fun of Decatur. You'd know why if you'd ever been there.
this is one of these rock and/or roll songs you quote?
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