Ithaca Key West Tourism Board

Ha ha ha, oh, I finally get the joke (I didn't get the joke when someone used it as a team name at trivia night last night) now that I've read this article: "Ithaca, New York, tourism site: Don't come here, go to Florida."

The article explains that the Ithaca tourism folks did a sort of spoof thing on their website, where they told people that the weather is too cold here, and they should go to Key West instead.

Unsurprisingly, the Visit Ithaca website itself seems to be down (too much traffic, I suspect, now that the joke's out there in the national news world?) but here's a screencap of what the site looks like, or at least looked like yesterday, as shown in the Ithaca Journal:

It really is an unusually harsh and long cold snap this winter. Apparently I'm the only one avidly enjoying it...