SCHENECTADY

[AsahinaKimi]

Okay fess up, who has been there, whats your impression?

[bluhoodie]

1. Too funny, the coincidence!

I gotta laugh.
I just finished posting to another thread in DU Lounge entitled "Where were you born?" I said Schenectady, NY and added "but I always have trouble spelling it since I moved away before I learned how to spell."   Cruising DU Lounge for just one more item of interest before quitting DU for the day, I spotted this thread: SCHENECTADY.    HA!!! a place I haven't thought of in ages, suddenly comes up twice in the same hour.

Then, not knowing if I should even vote in the poll because I haven't been there since age 3 (and therefore have no memories of it), I spotted the choice about GE.   My father was a GE man so we were a family transferred from GE town to GE town.   Since I was born in Schenectady because of GE, I suddenly see a new meaning in the slogan that GE "brings good things to life"!!! - I've never thought of that before!

Suddenly MY LIFE HAS NEW MEANING!    :applause:    :rofl:

[AsahinaKimi]

3. Too funny!

:rofl:

[amyrose2712]

2. Other-I just like to say it. nt

[jdp349]

4. Get the fuck out while you still can!

I briefly attended Union College ... bad memories.

[jdp349]

5. Get the fuck out while you still can!

I briefly attended Union College ... bad memories.

[Beer Snob-50]

6. i had lunch once at some diner in schnectady

and it rocked the free world

[Blue-Jay]

7. Drove through the place once.

I didn't really give a thought. I had lunch at some Ma & Pa place on the main drag, but don't remember if the food was good or not. Seemed like a normal town. Nice enough, I suppose..

[Lavender Brown]

8. never thought I see the Sch'dy Gazette in a DU poll

Schenectady does have good food. :)

[madinmaryland]

9. An UPSTATE New York Thread!!1!!

:woohoo:

I'll have to tell my wife who is from UPSTATE New York!! (Poughkeepsie)

:evilgrin:

[Terra Alta]

10. It has a cool looking name.

But how the hell is it pronounced? :shrug:

[AsahinaKimi]

11. My friends used to tell me it was pronounced

SKIN ~NECK ~TODAY .. which of course is an old, old joke.. considering that the place used to be a fort in the old settler days, back around the time of the French and Indian war. When I was there I got the whole historical background of the place, including, a glass bottle museum and a spot where you can still find stone arrowheads .. who'da thought it?
:shrug: