1.How do you get to Syracuse from Rochester? Drive East until hope fades.
2.The Sun never shines in Syracuse, NY. Even when it's sunny.
3.Mark Twain once said �The worst winter I ever had was a summer in San Francisco.� Had Twain been to Syracuse at any time of his life, he would have changed that quote.
4.Rod Serling, creator of the Twilight Zone, was born in Syracuse. He based many of the most frightening episodes of the series on his everyday life as a very young child in Syracuse.
5.The New York State Fair is held in Syracuse. This is roughly equivalent to the Ukraine holding a fair in Chernobyl.
6.For years, the stadium of the Syracuse Chiefs AAA Baseball team has had artificial turf. Why? Because grass won't grow in Syracuse.
7.The Sicilian city of Syracuse was once described by Cicero as the �greatest Greek city and the most beautiful of them all.� Syracuse, NY is the complete opposite.
8. A few years ago, Cold War era Warsaw Pact plans were found detailing what cities would be targeted by Nuclear weapons in event of WWIII. Syracuse was not listed, since the living conditions and general atmosphere of Syracuse would have remained the same post-nuking.
9.When you drive through Syracuse, you want to go faster. Just to get out of there.
10.The brightest spot in Syracuse is the sign saying you are leaving Syracuse.
11.Rochester gave the world the camera, which has allowed mankind to take photos of Upstate New York's beauty. Buffalo gave us Buffalo Wings. What has Syracuse given us? Air Conditioning, which made it more appealing to move south, out of Upstate New York. Syracuse: shooting the region in the foot since 1915.
12.Early 20th century comedian and actor W.C. Fields is rumored to have the words �I'd rather be here then in Philadelphia� on his tombstone. Needless to say, Fields never was in Syracuse.
13.The movie Groundhog Day could have been even more unkind to Bill Murray. He could've woken up every day to find himself in Syracuse.
14.If New York City is the Big Apple, Syracuse is a small, rotten apple that has been pissed on by a squirrel.
15.When Ben Franklin said �He that lives upon hope will die fasting�, he was talking about people who live in Syracuse.
16.Syracuse rhymes with Excuse. Which, by the way, Syracuse has none.
17.The basketball shot clock, invented in Syracuse, is 24 seconds long. Sadly for everyone who must drive through Syracuse, it takes longer then that to traverse the city.
18.Why does Syracuse University play in a dome? So that they don't have to see the hell-hole that gave the university it's name.
19.The movie Bruce Almighty, about a Buffalo newsman who gains the powers of God, was originally supposed to take place in Syracuse until it was pointed out that God uses Syracuse as his own personal toilet, not as a training ground for wanna-be dietys.
20.If the gates to hell were found in Syracuse, most everyone living in Syracuse would go through the door, seeking a better life.