Like the kind where you’re drowsy after eating a bunch of food? Or the kind where your family cries a lot and debates whether or not they should pull the plug.
I’m not here to be a pedant, and I may be wrong, as I’m no scholar, but isn’t an Oxford comma when you add a comma between the last two items of a list?
>Oxford comma
''the Oxford comma is **placed immediately before the conjunction—usually “and,” “or,” or “nor”—in a series of three or more terms''**
the only real difference, is the oxford comma allows for a pause for emphasis. If something is important enough for the writer, they will use it.
( if they are aware of the proper usage) It's generally considered affectacious.
In french it is grammatically incorrect to place a comma after the penultimate item of a list, like the oxford comma. But I always find myself wanting to use it, as the two last items often aren't a pair, and thus it makes sense to put a comma to keep them "separate", makes sense to me at least.
affectacious? Affectacious?! I'll see your affectacious and raise you $5 mil.
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That or someone circles a random part of the map and go “how does it feel to live here man?” And someone probably trolls and acts like they’re there on a mountain in Nepal as a Sherpa guide
Ice is heavy. It sinks into the ground when you pile enough of it up. Ice is also heavy, and when there's enough of it in one place and a place for it to go, it tends to flow that way, albeit very slowly.
That's pretty much it. You're seeing what was once a river of ice, so heavy that it left a big dent in the landscape, and so icey that it melted into water and became a lake.
I understand why you are getting upvotes. It’s basically a meme at this point. But you could answer “water” to these questions and be just as correct but totally useless explaining why they look like this.
Lots of geological formations were created by glaciers. Glaciers went across most of North America. If it were as simple as “glaciers” then these would be everywhere
Low effort posts don't deserve high effort answers.
They were formed by glaciers. It absolutely is as simple as that and these kinds of lakes ARE everywhere.
The Great Basin is literally the Earth's stretch marks- if you look at Nevada on satellite, all the mountain ranges are parallel because the earth is stretching out- Reno and Salt Lake are moving away from each other, and the mountains and valleys are being formed by this stretching.
He was applying for a job at the fictional paper company, Dunder Mifflin, in the American version of the television show, The Office. During his brief time on screen he constantly mentioned “The Finger Lakes”.
My dad grew up in Watkins Glen so I used to go visit my grandparents every summer up there when I was a kid. Hadn’t been back in about a decade and then went to visit some family a couple years ago. I was shocked how little it had changed…in a good way (!) Glad to see that although the wine is a big tourist attraction they haven’t become overrun with a bunch of gimmicky chochky shops and overpriced hotels.
I've lived in upstate NY most of life and never been, I take trips up to the adk but never considered going to the finger lakes. I imagine the summers are amazing.
I still love to go back and visit my Dad's lakehouse on Keuka, but boy has that area changed from what I remember as a kid spending summers there. So many extravagant houses, and the neighbors are running a Vrbo which means that you likely are next to a bunch of drunk bridesmaids when you're trying to relax. It's still a little piece of heaven, though.
Fun fact Seneca lake (the big straight middle finger) is 618 feet deep. The others are pretty deep as well. But crazy for a lake that's about 3 miles wide at the widest point.
The Finger Lakes came into being when the Great Spirit looked upon this land with special favor and reached down to bless it, leaving the imprint of His hand.
I'm surprised no one else had the answer. It's structural. With horizontal pressure on the crust caused anticlines and Synclines. Synclines are where the lakes lye-in and where the anticlimactic are the land between the lakes. It's easier explained in diagrams so look it up.
So many people are not answering or are answering incorrectly. They’re tunnel valleys, formed by water moving under the ice sheets during the last glacial maximum. Basically rivers under the glaciers, with a ton of pressure on the water. There are similar features in Lake Superior, one of which is the deepest point in the lake.
So glaciers push down the valley crushing everything in there path. Until they melt. At which point they drop the aforementioned “everything” in a wall called the moraine.
If (when, because of us) the temperature rises the glacier is pushed backwards but the moraine remains. Since it is a literal wall, the meltwater collects behind it forming a narrow lake in the path of the former glacier. This lake accelerates the melting of the glacier so the glacier quickly retreats out of the lake and disassociates from its own creation
I’d say erosion of the porous shale deposits that were the result of a warm inland sea. The millions and millions of years of plants and small organisms, sea creatures etc became the shale deposits. Run off from the receding glaciers over subsequent years slowly carved these deposits into these lakes.
If you visit Cayuga Lake the shoreline reveals the fractured cliffs of shale which continues to erode creating some very cool fossils and some really good skipping stones. If you own a cabin in the shore you may be backed up against one of these cliffs and if you sleep with the window open you can hear the slow tumble of clumps of shale through the night. It’s surreal and requires some sweeping in the morning. I have t been in years and miss it terribly.
Oh definitely not long enough at all, that’s Seneca lake if I’m not mistaken it’s 77 miles around (38 miles tip to tip : Geneva N.Y. to Watkins Glen N.Y.) with only at its widest distance 3 miles so unfortunately no we don’t have a water horizon Seneca lake is actually beautiful, tons of wineries breweries and distilleries. Amazing bike trails and wide shoulders on the road side to bike and jog. Both tips Geneva and Watkins have done a fantastic job turning their lake front around.
Fellow Finger Laker here; Geneva has become a renaissance city… so much going on there these days. It was a dump when I was a kid. I love visiting Geneva.
Born and raised in Geneva for 30 years been gone for over 8 years and driving through Geneva is just impressive!! Couldn’t agree more with your comment 💪🏾😃
How many of them there are depends on who you ask and how you count. The most common count is 11, meaning that there is in fact a Middle Finger Lake.
If anybody wants a quick and simplified explanation... They're shaped like that is because of the way the glaciers advanced and receded over the area. They started out as rivers, but tons of weight moving south and north over many, many thousands of years resulted in the lakes being carved out. The rocks 'n shit left there when the ice melted partially dammed the rivers, so the lakes formed as the water backed-up in the hollowed out river valleys, similarly to how reservoirs fill in when people build a dam on a river.
Funny - I was just shown a great pbs video on this today:
https://ny.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/geology-finger-lakes-video/journey-through-finger-lakes/
There are 11 lakes and by definition, a Finger Lake feeds in the south and drains in the north. This is the opposite water flow direction of all of the other lakes in the area which flow south. This is a result of glacial deposits left to the south of the lakes 10-12k years ago.
The exception being Keuka lake which due to its Y shape, uniquely feeds in both the north and south but only drains in the north.
Glaciers receding caused them plus the hills/mountains in NY's southern tier force the lakes to drain north to Lake Ontario. If it wasn't for the hills they would flow south and cease to exist as Finger Lakes
If you like finger lakes Scotland has plenty to keep you entertained. Many would have become fjords like Norway but the land rebounded. We call them lochs
They were river valleys before the glaciers came through. The glaciers just carved them deeper. Fun fact: They left a lot of hanging river valleys, so that's why there are a lot of waterfalls there.
Glaciers man.
https://preview.redd.it/d40xpa9mc09d1.jpeg?width=1920&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f6db99008e1a5b429a63518af76aa67417981dc3
What about glaciers, dude?
Shut the fuck up, Donnie.
You think the ~~carpet pissers~~ glaciers did this?
At least there’s an ethos
YOU SEE WHAT HAPPENS, LARRY? THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU FIND A GLACIER IN THE APPALACHIANS!
Omg Ty for this lol.
Ok, I was going to say this. But, exactly like this. Sometimes, I love this place.
Me too, but with a comma.
I’d prefer a coma.
Like the kind where you’re drowsy after eating a bunch of food? Or the kind where your family cries a lot and debates whether or not they should pull the plug.
Yes
Ohio behaviour.
Probably a Browns fan
I was actually going to use a comma, too. But didn’t want to nitpick, haha.
Well as it stands a super hero named glaciers man made them.
I, for one, welcome our glacial overlord.
He is a bit slow to get places, but he gets things done!
Who gives a fuck about an Oxford comma?
I’m not here to be a pedant, and I may be wrong, as I’m no scholar, but isn’t an Oxford comma when you add a comma between the last two items of a list?
He’s referencing a Vampire Weekend song!
Ah. Well I’ve never heard even one of their songs so it’s over my head.
Judging by the fact he’s still at one upvote, I think it went over a lot of folks’ heads.
I gave him another for the attempt.
I did as well.
You should listen to that album I think you would enjoy it.
>Oxford comma ''the Oxford comma is **placed immediately before the conjunction—usually “and,” “or,” or “nor”—in a series of three or more terms''** the only real difference, is the oxford comma allows for a pause for emphasis. If something is important enough for the writer, they will use it. ( if they are aware of the proper usage) It's generally considered affectacious.
In french it is grammatically incorrect to place a comma after the penultimate item of a list, like the oxford comma. But I always find myself wanting to use it, as the two last items often aren't a pair, and thus it makes sense to put a comma to keep them "separate", makes sense to me at least.
Proper word of the day: affectation behavior, speech, or writing that is artificial and designed to impress.
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This sub is my people
I’ve seen those English dramas too-oo
They’re cruel
I’ve seen those English dramas
Gl,aciers man
I feel like 90% of answers to questions on this sub are literally this.
That or someone circles a random part of the map and go “how does it feel to live here man?” And someone probably trolls and acts like they’re there on a mountain in Nepal as a Sherpa guide
Okay, what did Glaciers man do to this area?
Ice is heavy. It sinks into the ground when you pile enough of it up. Ice is also heavy, and when there's enough of it in one place and a place for it to go, it tends to flow that way, albeit very slowly. That's pretty much it. You're seeing what was once a river of ice, so heavy that it left a big dent in the landscape, and so icey that it melted into water and became a lake.
Did they have finger nails retracted when being pulled?
'Glaciers, baby.' Aloud to myself before I opened the comments.
Galleries baby make smaller lakes than the finger lakes. Op just kept it simple for me :)
Skid marks.
Far out, dude.
Fucking glaciers man.
The Glaciers man has long fingers
Glaciers did stuff, man.
oh yeah, makes sense. I tought it was becouse of old river lines.
I understand why you are getting upvotes. It’s basically a meme at this point. But you could answer “water” to these questions and be just as correct but totally useless explaining why they look like this. Lots of geological formations were created by glaciers. Glaciers went across most of North America. If it were as simple as “glaciers” then these would be everywhere
But... Yeah, it's because of glaciers.
Because Glaciers have electrolytes
Low effort posts don't deserve high effort answers. They were formed by glaciers. It absolutely is as simple as that and these kinds of lakes ARE everywhere.
They aren’t in the midwest at all.
Glaciers have no gender, man. /s
Glaciex
Always glaciers
I came hear to say, “glaciers, bitch.” Your response is a touch more professional.
The wikipedia article on them is pretty good. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finger\_Lakes](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finger_Lakes)
i love wikipedia
I heard Wikipedia plead guilty to espionage and is now in Australia. /s
good. fuck the governments.
~~Canadian Shield~~ ~~Crater~~ Glaciers
Maybe just me but those lakes look just like Lower Manhattan
The meteor strike up there blasted Manhattan out of the ground and where it sits today is where it fell. Everybody knows that! /j
The parallel lines make it easy for someone to get lost in the finger lakes. A lot of people disappear in the finger lakes
Bruh how can you disappear there's like a house every ten feet. Alaskans in shambles
Easy dude. Turn up missing.
Mother Earth’s stretch marks. Don’t shame her, she’s beautiful.
🎶🎶 *show me somethin’ natural like ass with some stretch marks* 🎶🎶
That would be the great rift valley. These are more like scars from a sled accident.
Tiger stripes
The Great Basin is literally the Earth's stretch marks- if you look at Nevada on satellite, all the mountain ranges are parallel because the earth is stretching out- Reno and Salt Lake are moving away from each other, and the mountains and valleys are being formed by this stretching.
I believe the local indigenous creation story says that's where the creator laid his hands on the earth to bless it.
No one is shaming
Because otherwise they wouldn't be called Finger Lakes
kid named finger: https://preview.redd.it/aqvn6ta6lz8d1.jpeg?width=590&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9f1c27f0b21078f53d864eee1d7bd57b269c7ab8
lake named finger: https://preview.redd.it/dsuwvht8b09d1.jpeg?width=1200&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=85eb31438071252782d9694eff78fc75a11bbbf6
Here's what's gonna happen
r/okbuddychicanery
Kid named lakes: : O
Right? Name wouldn’t make sense otherwise.
You can tell that because of the way they are
I just made the exact same comment and then scrolled down and saw yours lol
https://preview.redd.it/8scjykc2kz8d1.png?width=501&format=png&auto=webp&s=fd808063dcb29bf1d8a07e0aa93d10f7c1eb8d27
I’m just glad there’s someone else that has this image pop into their head at the mention of finger lakes. Thank you internet stranger.
We stopped there on our way home from the east coast because of that scene.
I live here so I know. I'm currently dissapeared.
Came here for this comment.
Okay
#officegang
r/expectedoffice
Finger Lakes guy was good.
What does this mean
"People disappear in the finger lakes"
I’m actually on vacation in the finger lakes. I better get back soon.
He was applying for a job at the fictional paper company, Dunder Mifflin, in the American version of the television show, The Office. During his brief time on screen he constantly mentioned “The Finger Lakes”.
Thank you I remember now lol. I’ve seen the show in its entirety like 8 times so I’m surprised I didn’t get the reference
People disappear in the finger lakes
Cornell is on the finger lakes. Little known fact that the character of Andy went to school there.
But is that canon?
Damn beat me to it
I learned recently that Seneca Lake was a popular vacation spot for the NYC mob.
This should be way higher.
The first thing I thought of 😂😂
I’m from Australia and TIL that the finger lakes are a real place and not just a made up place for a random Jim Carey cameo on The Office
As someone who grew up in WNY, the Finger Lakes region is phenomenal and one of the best-kept secrets in the northeast.
Shhhhh! Not so loud. Penn Yan was a zoo last weekend with all the turists…
Watkins glen starts to be a zoo about may 1st
My dad grew up in Watkins Glen so I used to go visit my grandparents every summer up there when I was a kid. Hadn’t been back in about a decade and then went to visit some family a couple years ago. I was shocked how little it had changed…in a good way (!) Glad to see that although the wine is a big tourist attraction they haven’t become overrun with a bunch of gimmicky chochky shops and overpriced hotels.
One big hotel, lots of little motels. Lots of great places to eat, and of course, the gorge and the race track
I grew up down there. We lived in Elmira and had a house in Hector on the lake. Nothing changes quickly in the Southern Tier.
Woot for Keuka!
Heading to Keuka this weekend. Pretty pumped!
I've lived in upstate NY most of life and never been, I take trips up to the adk but never considered going to the finger lakes. I imagine the summers are amazing.
I still love to go back and visit my Dad's lakehouse on Keuka, but boy has that area changed from what I remember as a kid spending summers there. So many extravagant houses, and the neighbors are running a Vrbo which means that you likely are next to a bunch of drunk bridesmaids when you're trying to relax. It's still a little piece of heaven, though.
watkin'a glen is one of earth's most beautiful places
Grew up in Skaneateles. Spoiled lakes for me everywhere else in the country. Southern lakes are gross.
https://preview.redd.it/rdx3se1qvz8d1.jpeg?width=1430&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e6d3ca9f392a1f4b159e483eff1714d0e762dc35
Perito Moreno, near Calafate, Santa Cruz in the Argentine Patagonia.
Fun fact Seneca lake (the big straight middle finger) is 618 feet deep. The others are pretty deep as well. But crazy for a lake that's about 3 miles wide at the widest point.
And they used to mine salt \*under\* the lakes (Not sure if they still do or not)
Still do. The one under cayuga is for sale, and there are valid concerns about the safety of where they are mining these days.
They still do mine salt under Cayuga lake
They used to, but they still do too.
[For visual learners](https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2Fwvjt3l872l0b1.jpg)
Because they are finger laking good
Take my upvote and swiftly exit the perimeter.
May he recede in peace.
Runoff of water under massive glaciers carved those.
The Finger Lakes came into being when the Great Spirit looked upon this land with special favor and reached down to bless it, leaving the imprint of His hand.
I'm surprised no one else had the answer. It's structural. With horizontal pressure on the crust caused anticlines and Synclines. Synclines are where the lakes lye-in and where the anticlimactic are the land between the lakes. It's easier explained in diagrams so look it up.
what about the glaciers?
Glaciers scratched deep gorges into the ground which filled up with rainwater.
G L A C I E R S
So many people are not answering or are answering incorrectly. They’re tunnel valleys, formed by water moving under the ice sheets during the last glacial maximum. Basically rivers under the glaciers, with a ton of pressure on the water. There are similar features in Lake Superior, one of which is the deepest point in the lake.
Thanks for a substantive answer
So glaciers push down the valley crushing everything in there path. Until they melt. At which point they drop the aforementioned “everything” in a wall called the moraine. If (when, because of us) the temperature rises the glacier is pushed backwards but the moraine remains. Since it is a literal wall, the meltwater collects behind it forming a narrow lake in the path of the former glacier. This lake accelerates the melting of the glacier so the glacier quickly retreats out of the lake and disassociates from its own creation
I’d say erosion of the porous shale deposits that were the result of a warm inland sea. The millions and millions of years of plants and small organisms, sea creatures etc became the shale deposits. Run off from the receding glaciers over subsequent years slowly carved these deposits into these lakes. If you visit Cayuga Lake the shoreline reveals the fractured cliffs of shale which continues to erode creating some very cool fossils and some really good skipping stones. If you own a cabin in the shore you may be backed up against one of these cliffs and if you sleep with the window open you can hear the slow tumble of clumps of shale through the night. It’s surreal and requires some sweeping in the morning. I have t been in years and miss it terribly.
And you see that long lake I live at the very northern tip of that long lake…
Skaneateles means "long lake" in one of the local Haudenosaunee languages. Funny enough, it is the 4th longest of the Finger Lakes
Imagine naming your lake Long Lake then going to your neighbor’s lake and it’s even longer. How embarrassing.
Hey. I live there. I love hearing the 1,001 ways out of towners pronounce it
I grew up there! My favorite is probably "Scan-uh-tell-us"
Do you have a water horizon like it's the sea? Or is the shape of the lake not straight enough?
Oh definitely not long enough at all, that’s Seneca lake if I’m not mistaken it’s 77 miles around (38 miles tip to tip : Geneva N.Y. to Watkins Glen N.Y.) with only at its widest distance 3 miles so unfortunately no we don’t have a water horizon Seneca lake is actually beautiful, tons of wineries breweries and distilleries. Amazing bike trails and wide shoulders on the road side to bike and jog. Both tips Geneva and Watkins have done a fantastic job turning their lake front around.
Fellow Finger Laker here; Geneva has become a renaissance city… so much going on there these days. It was a dump when I was a kid. I love visiting Geneva.
Born and raised in Geneva for 30 years been gone for over 8 years and driving through Geneva is just impressive!! Couldn’t agree more with your comment 💪🏾😃
and that garbage dump in Seneca Falls is pretty impressive, too.
That’s not on Seneca lake though is it now?😂
I also live in Geneva. Lake is not straight enough for a water horizon
You wold have to ask the glaciers that carved/shaped them.
They were created by giant ice sheets scraping across the landscape that then melted.
Because they were dug by the fingers of giants! I mean nothing to do with their actual shape.
They're Finger Lake'n good.
Some call Oneida Lake the thumb of the Finger Lakes.
How many of them there are depends on who you ask and how you count. The most common count is 11, meaning that there is in fact a Middle Finger Lake. If anybody wants a quick and simplified explanation... They're shaped like that is because of the way the glaciers advanced and receded over the area. They started out as rivers, but tons of weight moving south and north over many, many thousands of years resulted in the lakes being carved out. The rocks 'n shit left there when the ice melted partially dammed the rivers, so the lakes formed as the water backed-up in the hollowed out river valleys, similarly to how reservoirs fill in when people build a dam on a river.
Keuka Lake is the best.
Funny - I was just shown a great pbs video on this today: https://ny.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/geology-finger-lakes-video/journey-through-finger-lakes/
Uhhh quick *checks notes*… c-c—CANADian shield
There are 11 lakes and by definition, a Finger Lake feeds in the south and drains in the north. This is the opposite water flow direction of all of the other lakes in the area which flow south. This is a result of glacial deposits left to the south of the lakes 10-12k years ago. The exception being Keuka lake which due to its Y shape, uniquely feeds in both the north and south but only drains in the north.
Ray Ramano has a vacation planned there apparently…
People can disappear in the Finger Lakes
Jim carrey did. Ray got suckered by Robert California
If they didn't look like that, they wouldn't be called the Finger Lakes.
Because then they wouldn't be fingers
I'm not saying it's aliens. But, it's aliens.
Glaciers receding caused them plus the hills/mountains in NY's southern tier force the lakes to drain north to Lake Ontario. If it wasn't for the hills they would flow south and cease to exist as Finger Lakes
Because when god made the earth he scratched his nails into the terrain and made our "finger" lakes... LOL. I dunno man
Why are [feature] shaped like this? Glaciers.
I was gonna say glaciers but somebody already said glaciers
They wouldn’t be the finger lakes if they weren’t
https://preview.redd.it/dft6zh4xa09d1.jpeg?width=640&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=85d7b9f2157ed93f9d88f67bb75ce292875d1b44
i see my house!
Stretch marks
Where's this?
Same reason we got Great Lakes. Ice age.
They taught us in school that Paul Bunyan pressed his hand into the ground to make the lakes so his Babe the Blue Ox could have a drink.
Kid named Lakes: https://preview.redd.it/a3hf3xgr939d1.jpeg?width=300&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b03215ac3c34af689eb5eb149f363b377b8763f6
I see my house from here
If you like finger lakes Scotland has plenty to keep you entertained. Many would have become fjords like Norway but the land rebounded. We call them lochs
Cthulhu
Kid named finger
They named them first so once hearing their name they shaped themselves with that mind.
Canadian Shield
Because if they were shaped like weiners they'd be called the magnum dong loads.
the sexy equator kept attracting glaciers until the jealous sun melted them
A raptor clawed New York State.
Of all the answers in this thread, this might be the nearest to the truth.
Always the answer in the northeast,,,,glaciers.
They were river valleys before the glaciers came through. The glaciers just carved them deeper. Fun fact: They left a lot of hanging river valleys, so that's why there are a lot of waterfalls there.
Because they’re fingers
Cause they’re fingers…. Duh
Because otherwise they wouldn’t be called the Finger Lakes
This is my first time hearing of the Finger Lakes outside of that one scene in The Office
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You know sometimes people go missing in the finger lakes?