Visiting Lynah guide

[jtwcornell91]

It may also be that the US had already exhausted that particular sitcom format with "Friends," which was winding down at that time (and wasn't as good as many remember).

I never watched Friends but my impression is it was just a stupid person's version of HIMYM.  If so, then Friends wasn't anything like Coupling.

Coupling was similar to HIMYM in that they both played around a lot with nonlinear narrative formats.  The similarities to Friends were only superficial.

Of course, the best comedy series to come out of the UK in the 21st century is The IT Crowd.  (The IT Crowd, Coupling, and Red Dwarf all had short-lived awful US remakes.)

[Trotsky]

The IT Crowd, Coupling, and Red Dwarf

We would appear to be the same person.

If you're going to mention Red Dwarf, which was 80s-90s, then you are contractually obligated to mention Blackadder, which is better than all of them, and AbFab which is timeless.

[schoaff]

My freshman year roommate from back in '86 and I took my 11 year old son to his first Lynah games this weekend, our first time back in about 25 years. Had a lot of fun showing him the campus and telling him stories about all of our shenanigans as students. He got a kick out of them playing contemporary music and video game themes on the chimes. We ended up eating at a Korean place in Ctown that did table BBQ and Moosewood. Thought both places were great. Had no problem parking in the lot next to Cascadilla and walking to the games.

My son and I have been to a couple hundred live sporting events together, college and professional, including Fenway Park and Duke's Cameron Indoor Stadium. I know it's old hat to us and at times we can be jaded but he was astounded by the crowd at Lynah. He was a bit demure at first shaking his newspaper as Dartmouth was introduced, but by the end of the Harvard Game he was chanting along with Gary Glitter and standing on his seat shouting "Harvard Sucks." He got a kick out of the fact that Cam Donaldson lists his hometown as Pittsboro, NC which is about 5 miles from where we live. Anyway, well done faithful.

[The Rancor]

My freshman year roommate from back in '86 and I took my 11 year old son to his first Lynah games this weekend, our first time back in about 25 years. Had a lot of fun showing him the campus and telling him stories about all of our shenanigans as students. He got a kick out of them playing contemporary music and video game themes on the chimes. We ended up eating at a Korean place in Ctown that did table BBQ and Moosewood. Thought both places were great. Had no problem parking in the lot next to Cascadilla and walking to the games.

My son and I have been to a couple hundred live sporting events together, college and professional, including Fenway Park and Duke's Cameron Indoor Stadium. I know it's old hat to us and at times we can be jaded but he was astounded by the crowd at Lynah. He was a bit demure at first shaking his newspaper as Dartmouth was introduced, but by the end of the Harvard Game he was chanting along with Gary Glitter and standing on his seat shouting "Harvard Sucks." He got a kick out of the fact that Cam Donaldson lists his hometown as Pittsboro, NC which is about 5 miles from where we live. Anyway, well done faithful.

this is how you do it, folks.

[Jeff Hopkins '82]

The IT Crowd, Coupling, and Red Dwarf

We would appear to be the same person.

If you're going to mention Red Dwarf, which was 80s-90s, then you are contractually obligated to mention Blackadder, which is better than all of them, and AbFab which is timeless.

+1

I have a cunning plan...

[Anne 85]

I just stumbled across this article about the top 9 student sections in college hockey. The list appears to be alphabetical, so Cornell is 3rd.
NCAA.com article

Not a lot of detail, but it has a link to the eLynah cheers section (which needs a bit of updating).

[RichH]

I just stumbled across this article about the top 9 student sections in college hockey. The list appears to be alphabetical, so Cornell is 3rd.
NCAA.com article

Not a lot of detail, but it has a link to the eLynah cheers section (which needs a bit of updating).

Any list here that includes Clarkson but not UVM, UMD's Penalty Box, or (let's be honest) Michigan's Cornell Lite isn't a good list. It was probably written by an Arizona State fan.

[abmarks]

I just stumbled across this article about the top 9 student sections in college hockey. The list appears to be alphabetical, so Cornell is 3rd.
NCAA.com article

Not a lot of detail, but it has a link to the eLynah cheers section (which needs a bit of updating).

Any list here that includes Clarkson but not UVM, UMD's Penalty Box, or (let's be honest) Michigan's Cornell Lite isn't a good list. It was probably written by an Arizona State fan.

You clearly haven't been to
UVM in a while.  There was a time when I'd have put Gutterson on par with Lynah, but that was late 70s.

Poat expansion of the rink and now with so many years of losing, it in no way ought to be on a top list.  Hopefully it can with a few years of actual team success again.

[Trotsky]

I always loved the Gut but I never thought of their crowd as rocking.  A small student section, a good band, and then a forest of silent townies.

NU, OTOH, not only has beautiful Matthews but also insane and hilarious fans.  They're the only good Boston hockey crowd (I mean except for us at Lynah East).

[Trotsky]

Michigan's Cornell Lite

I haven't been impressed by Michigan's road crowds.  They're loud but they're soooooooooooo boooooooooring.  They're like Maine.  At home maybe it's different.

OTOH I was impressed by Wisco and Minny's traveling fans for creativity and presence.  At home it probably gets swallowed by those cavernous antiseptic airplane hangers.

[abmarks]

I always loved the Gut but I never thought of their crowd as rocking.  A small student section, a good band, and then a forest of silent townies.

NU, OTOH, not only has beautiful Matthews but also insane and hilarious fans.  They're the only good Boston hockey crowd (I mean except for us at Lynah East).

At least through the late 80s, Gutterson would consistently be listed as one of the top few barns in terms of atmosphere.

Silent townies?  In the mid seventies, it was common to have a few beer bottles and tennis balls chucked on the ice in protest over a refs call each game... from the townie section.  

Between 72 and 85 I saw what I'd guess was north of 100 games there.  After seeing my first games at lynah in 85, I said lynah was the tougher place to play, but not by a lot.

[jtwcornell91]

For parking you can't beat the garage next to Schoelkopf.  It takes a while to empty out but that's a fair trade for not worrying about the snow.

I second that, but be sure to back into the parking space, or you'll find yourself trying to back out into a line of cars coming down from the upper levels.

[billhoward]

Maybe Tinder (or whatever the Kids Today equivalent is) has killed partying.  For all its other attractions partying was at the core how you hooked up.  Now people can hook up directly, without the overhead. All of youth culture is driven by fucking.  Technological changes in fucking are bound to have serious economic and social repercussions.  c.f. the automobile.

You say that like it's a bad thing. Be an optimist. As an undergrad, you have to think that somewhere on campus there's a girl as lonely as me, and hopefully feeling just as frisky. But first take her to a nice place. Like the Palms.

[Jeff Hopkins '82]

Maybe Tinder (or whatever the Kids Today equivalent is) has killed partying.  For all its other attractions partying was at the core how you hooked up.  Now people can hook up directly, without the overhead. All of youth culture is driven by fucking.  Technological changes in fucking are bound to have serious economic and social repercussions.  c.f. the automobile.

You say that like it's a bad thing. Be an optimist. As an undergrad, you have to think that somewhere on campus there's a girl as lonely as me, and hopefully feeling just as frisky. But first take her to a nice place. Like the Palms.

Well done, Bill.  Good set-up.  Great punch line.

[Iceberg]

We ended up eating at a Korean place in Ctown that did table BBQ...

Four Seasons, which was one of my favorite spots in Ithaca. They've been around at least 10 years at this point and have seemingly avoided the turnover that has happened elsewhere in Collegetown