The canonical SF answer is "Mail order from Schenectady, New York", not Poughkeepsie. Stross also got the author of the quip wrong, but I can't get my memory to

The canonical SF answer is "Mail order from Schenectady, New York", not Poughkeepsie. Stross also got the author of the quip wrong, but I can't get my memory to produce the right one (I saw it in print many moons ago). P.S. Seems Stross was right about the source. I remembered Barry B. Longyear's It Came from Schenectady. He explains: http://www.sff.net/people/bblongyear/ItSchenectady.html http://www.sff.net/people/bblongyear/ItSchenectady.html http://www.sff.net/people/bblongyear/ICFSFF.html http://www.sff.net/people/bblongyear/ICFSFF.html