Ode to New Jersey - Completely OT!

[Guest guest]

But seems to me that we have a few from Jersey on this list....and since I come

from SJ, I felt the need to share!

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Ode to New Jersey

New Jersey is a peninsula.

Highlands, New Jersey has the highest elevation along the entire eastern

seaboard, from Maine to Florida.

New Jersey is the only state where all of its counties are classified as

metropolitan areas.

New Jersey has more race horses than Kentucky.

New Jersey has more Cubans in Union City (1 sq. mi.) than Havana, Cuba.

New Jersey has the most dense system of highways and railroads in the US.

New Jersey has the highest cost of living.

New Jersey has the highest cost of auto insurance.

New Jersey has the highest property taxes in the nation.

New Jersey has the most diners in the world and is sometimes referred to as the

Diner Capital of the World

New Jersey is home to the original mystery pork parts club (no,not spam)

Ham or Pork Roll.

Home to the less mysterious, but the best, Italian hot dogs and Italian sausage

w/peppers and onions.

North Jersey has the most shopping malls in one area in the world, with seven

major shopping malls in a 25 square mile radius.

New Jersey is home to the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island.

The Passaic River was the site of the first submarine ride by inventor P.

Holland.

New Jersey has 50+ resort cities & towns, some of the nations' most famous:

Asbury Park, Wildwood, Atlantic City, Seaside Heights, Long Branch & Cape May.

New Jersey has the most stringent testing along our coastline for Water Quality

Control than any other seaboard state in the entire country.

New Jersey is a leading technology & industrial state and is the largest

chemical producing state in the nation when you include pharmaceuticals.

Jersey tomatoes are known the world over as being the best you can buy.

New Jersey is the world leader in blueberry and cranberry production (and here

you thought

Massachusetts?)

Here's to New Jersey - the toast of the country! In 1642, the first brewery in

America opened in Hoboken.

New Jersey rocks! The famous Les invented the first solid body electric

guitar in Mahwah in 1940

New Jersey is a major seaport state with the largest seaport in the US, located

in . Nearly 80% of what our nation imports comes through

Seaport first.

New Jersey is home to one of the nation's busiest airports at Newark Liberty

International.

Washington slept here. Several important Revolutionary War battles were

fought on New Jersey soil, led by General Washington.

The light bulb, phonograph (record player) and motion picture projector, were

invented by Edison in his Menlo Park, NJ laboratory.

We also boast the first town ever lit by incandescent bulbs.

The first seaplane was built in Keyport, NJ.

The first airmail (to Chicago) was started from Keyport, NJ.

The first phonograph records were made in Camden, NJ.

New Jersey is home to the Miss America Pageant held in Atlantic City.

The game Monopoly, played all over the world, named the streets on their playing

board after the actual streets in Atlantic City.

And, Atlantic City has the longest boardwalk in the world.

New Jersey has the largest petroleum containment area outside of the Middle East

countries.

The first Indian reservation was in New Jersey, in the Watchung Mountains.

New Jersey has the tallest water-tower in the world. (Union, NJ!!!)

New Jersey had the first Medical Center, in Jersey City.

The Pulaski SkyWay, from Jersey City to Newark, was the first skyway highway.

NJ built the first tunnel under a river, the Hudson. (Holland Tunnel).

The first baseball game was played in Hoboken, NJ, which is also the birthplace

of Sinatra.

The first intercollegiate football game was played in New Brunswick in 1889.

(Rutgers College played Princeton.)

The first Drive-in Movie theater was opened in Camden, NJ, (but they're all gone

now!)

New Jersey is home to both of " NEW YORK'S " Pro Football Teams!

The first radio station and broadcast was in Paterson, NJ.

The first FM radio broadcast was made from Alpine, NJ, by Maj. Armstrong.

All New Jersey natives: Sal Martorano, Jack Nicholson, Bruce Springsteen, Bon

Jovi, , Queen Latifa, Sarandon, Connie Francis, Shaq, Judy

Blume, Burr, Joan on, Ken Kross, Dionne Warwick, Vaughn, Budd

Abbott, Lou Costello, Alan Ginsberg, Norman Mailer, Marilynn McCoo, Flip ,

Hamilton, Whitney Houston, Eddie Money, McElroy, Eileen Donnely,

Grover Cleveland, Woodrow , Walt Whitman, Jerry , Tom Cruise,

Wojewodzki, Joyce Kilmer, Bruce Willis, Caesar Romero,Lauryn Hill, Ice-T, Nick

, Lane, Dee, Danny DeVito, Conti, Joe Pesci,Joe

Piscopo, Blake, Forsyth, Meryl Streep, Loretta Swit, Norman Lloyd,

Simon,Jerry Herman, Gorden McCrae, Spacey, Travolta, Phyllis

Newman, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Eva Marie Saint, Elisabeth Shue, Zebulon Pike,

Fennimore , Admiral Wm.Halsey,Jr., Dave ('s),

, Ray Liotta, Wuhl, Robeson, Ernie Kovacs, ph

Macchia and of course......... Albert Sinatra and " Uncle Floyd " Vivino.

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You know you're from Jersey when....

You don't think of fruit when people mention " The Oranges " .

You know that it's called Great Adventure, not Six Flags.

A good, quick breakfast is a hard roll with butter.

You've known the way to Seaside Heights since you were seven.

You've eaten at a Diner, when you were stoned or drunk, at 3a.m.

(usually eating scrapple and eggs, seemed to be the cure for a hangover)

You know that the state isn't one big oil refinery.

At least three people in your family still love Bruce Springsteen and you know

the town Jon Bon Jovi is from.

You know what a " jug handle " is.

You know that WaWa is a convenience store.

(best hoagies in the world I think! course it's been years for me!)

You know that the state isn't all farmland.

You know that there are no " beaches " in New Jersey -there's the shore and you

don't go to the shore, you go " down the Shore " . And when you are there, you're

not " at the shore " , you are " down the Shore " .

You know how to properly negotiate a Circle.

(just plunge in and above all, DON'T STOP! though I've done a lap or two trying

to get off a circle!)

You knew that the last sentence had to do with driving.

You know that this is the only " New... " state that doesn't require " New " to

identify it (like, try...Mexico,...York, ..Hampshire - doesn't work, does it?)

You know that a " White Castle " is the name of BOTH a fast food chain AND a fast

food sandwich

You consider putting mayo on a corned beef sandwich a sacrilege.

(Gulden's spicy brown mustard, is there anything else?)

You don't think " What exit? " is very funny.

(exit 5 for me!)

You know that people from the 609 area code are " a little different " . Yes they

are!

(I find it hard to believe that there are more than 2 area codes now!! 609 was

SJ and 201 was North Jersey)

You know that no respectable New Jerseyan goes to Princeton -that's for

out-of-staters.

The Jets-Giants game has started fights at your school or local bar.

You live within 20 minutes of at least three different malls.

(stown, Cherry Hill and Echelon)

You refer to all highways and interstates by their numbers.

Every year you have at least one kid in your class named Tony.

(we had Ant-ony too!)

You know the location of every clip shown in the Sopranos opening credits.

You've gotten on the wrong highway trying to get out of the mall.

You know that people from North Jersey go to Seaside Heights, and people from

Central Jersey go to Belmar and people from South Jersey go to Wildwood. It can

be no other way.

You weren't raised in New Jersey -- you were raised in either North Jersey,

Central Jersey or South Jersey.

You don't consider Newark or Camden to actually be part of the state.

You remember the stores Korvette's, Two Guys, Rickel's, Channel, Bamberger's and

Orbach's.

(sigh, met DH when we were working at Two Guys! )

You also remember Palisades Amusement Park.

You've had a Boardwalk cheese steak and vinegar fries.

You start planning for Memorial Day weekend in February.

And finally...

You've NEVER, NEVER pumped your own gas.

[Guest guest]

Sue that was hysterical.

As a former New Yawka, I think you left a couple of things out.

There was a rumor a few years ago, that they were going to change the license

plate from " The Garden State " , to the " Toll Booth State " . Every fifty feet,

someone with a uniform and a hat has their hand out. Driving to Atlantic City,

one is in a constant state of slowing down. You also know you have been driving

in NJ when the phrase, " lost in NJ " , is a redundancy.

I haven't heard about a " jug handle " , a Circle, or White Castle in a couple of

years. I can live without White Castle, but I still miss a great diner.

BTW " What exit? is still very funny.

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11/18/02

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