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I'm pretty sure New Jersey voted for Kerry.
isn't that enough?

YES

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Thursday, 4 November 2004 04:42 (twenty-one years ago)

hands up, everyone whose state has pine barrens. or towns with names like ong's hat, hohokus, zarephath, etc.

i'm not even from new jersey and i love it.

― el sabor de gene (yournullfame), Thursday, 4 November 2004 06:27 (twenty-one years ago)

zarephath = a village on an island in the raritan river FILLED WITH JESUS PEOPLE WHO HAVE THIS RADIO STATION WHOSE RELIGIOUS BROADCASTS THAT COULD PENETRATE A NUCLEAR BUNKER. scary place, scary people, scary station.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Thursday, 4 November 2004 06:35 (twenty-one years ago)

there's 2 cool things we share w/ conneticut

First: All the italians who made NY pizza what it was when it became an institution and all the jews who made NY bagels what they were when they became an institution almost all live in Jersey and Conneticut now, which is why you have to go to Livingston to get REAL bagels.

Second: Also in Livingston, there were these weird fenced off areas of the woods with empty fields on them heavily guarded for most of the 60s/70s/80s etc. Only later did I realize what they were...missile silos! To protect NYC...

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Thursday, 4 November 2004 07:34 (twenty-one years ago)

NJ rules because it has proper seasons, the people there are witty and towns with cool names like mahwah and rahway.

they have crazy sandwiches called 'fat moons' that have chips, burgers and mozzarella stix fillings.

― sophie, Thursday, 4 November 2004 09:59 (twenty-one years ago)

two months pass...

Is there a New Jersey accent or dialect?

― .adam (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 00:19 (twenty-one years ago)

*boggle*

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 00:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh, so it's like the one in the movies? I've only been to Newark.

― .adam (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 00:24 (twenty-one years ago)

That Weird NJ site mentioned upthread is amazing. I have a fascination with places that are run down and empty, but you know once they were places of grandeur - Asbury Park made me feel all spooked reading about it. Coney Islands a bit like that too yeah? Not abandoned tho.

I like old dead creepy seaside places. I guess thats why I like St Kilda too (or well - St Kilda how it was before the damn yuppies moved in and tarted up all the old dirty charm).

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 00:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Is there a New Jersey accent or dialect?

there are many!

― Turkey versus Eagle, McCauley is my Beagle (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 00:51 (twenty-one years ago)

i love new jersey. it lets me take pictures like this:

ihttp://plainparade.org/thesis/NJ-01.jpg

― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 01:29 (twenty-one years ago)

every yo la tengo album cover ever to thread!

― Turkey versus Eagle, McCauley is my Beagle (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 01:31 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.buttondepot.net/bos/nj.JPG

Really, I do.

― RS LaRue (rockist_scientist), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 01:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Vaguely on topic:...

"Born to Run" by Bruce Springsteen -- who really enjoys this overproduced crappy glop?

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 01:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Is there a New Jersey accent or dialect?

yeah the sopranos accent exists, but what i hear most of is a slightly jewishy northeasty variant on a standard american accent -- the way jon stewart speaks is exactly like most of my jersey friends speak.

― Turkey versus Eagle, McCauley is my Beagle (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 01:34 (twenty-one years ago)

the philly people can expound upon what the philly-suburban accent is like. i think it sounds kinda gay.

― Turkey versus Eagle, McCauley is my Beagle (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 01:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Years and years of memories of going to the beach. I know Jersey beaches aren't the best, but I don't know better first hand, really, and it was extremely exciting that the ocean would make it's way under the boardwalk at night. That is my idea of what a boardwalk is supposed to be.

More recently: it turns out to have surprisingly great places to go salsa dancing.

A lot of what Dan says is on the money.

I would seriously consider moving there.

x-post: Is there a Philly-Suburban accent? I wonder if I have it. I've moved around enough that I have a mixed accent, though it's clearly Philadelphia-centric, without necessarily being Philadelphian. I guess. I slip in and out of a real Philadelphia accent though.

― RS LaRue (rockist_scientist), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 01:38 (twenty-one years ago)

I know Jersey beaches aren't the best

i think they're pretty nice! but then i'm used to brooklyn beaches.

― Turkey versus Eagle, McCauley is my Beagle (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 01:44 (twenty-one years ago)

philly accent:
http://www.citypaper.net/articles/081497/article008.shtml

― Turkey versus Eagle, McCauley is my Beagle (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 01:47 (twenty-one years ago)

As a curious furriner, what is it about Newark that is so off? I looked at various pics and it just looks like a dirty subrban sprawl offshoot of NYC, which to my Aussie eyes looks very american and kinda cool in a morbid way.

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 01:56 (twenty-one years ago)

it's just grey and dingy and ghetto, but its bark is worse than its bite.

― Turkey versus Eagle, McCauley is my Beagle (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 01:58 (twenty-one years ago)

I kinda like that asthetic, myself. I suppose because I grew up with the precise opposite (Canberra being a v young, v parklike, green, planned, tidy city).

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 01:59 (twenty-one years ago)

since i've invaded the oz thread, it's only right that trayce invade this one. welcome!

princeton and trenton are roughly the dividing lines betwixt north and south jersey, for what it's worth. there are more than a few iggles fans in and around princeton.

newark's bark may be worse than its bite, but its bite can still be pretty bad. though REAL jerseyans know that newark ain't shit compared to camden -- camden is HARDCORE bad-ass.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 06:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Sez the NY Times, anyway.

― Hurting (Hurting), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 07:09 (twenty-one years ago)

east orange and irvington are 2 north jersey shitholes that are worse than newark.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 07:17 (twenty-one years ago)

What Trenton Makes...

...The World Takes!

― Ken L (Ken L), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 07:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, I briefly worked in Orange and East Orange. The words "the teen streets" still make me shudder.

― Hurting (Hurting), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 07:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Sez the NY Times, anyway.

the times DOES have this odd fascination with the place, don't they? at least once a year, they have some piece (in the Metro section) about what a hopeless hellhole it is. and it IS bad.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 07:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Before deciding to attend Rutgers, I went to an open house. The representatives from Camden showed up 30 minutes late with tons of make-up and their shirts tied above their bellies. They honestly looked like prostitutes.

― Hurting (Hurting), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 08:10 (twenty-one years ago)

regarding the Times,

Maybe the desolation fills a craving for authenticity that New Yorkers have now that they've gentrified everything from the sewers up.

― Hurting (Hurting), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 08:11 (twenty-one years ago)

eight months pass...

Well - I just wanted to say it's nice to see others fighting for NJ. A lot of what people have said here I feel too. I've been to 40 states and no where else in the world would I rather be than in NJ. I love NJ so much that I even started a website - http://www.AboutNewJersey.com

― Jersey Devil, Tuesday, 13 September 2005 07:48 (twenty years ago)

one month passes...

What is up with Morristown being full of Republican MILFs? Seriously, MILFs in SUVs with W bumper stickers, MILFs with jailbait catholic school daughters, MILFs reasing "100 People Who Are Destroying America"

Sorry.

― Hurting (Hurting), Thursday, 13 October 2005 00:44 (twenty years ago)

defend the indefensible: morristown

― glasgow coma score (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 13 October 2005 04:47 (twenty years ago)

morristown used to have a hardcore ghetto. so it's not ALL soccer MILFs!

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Thursday, 13 October 2005 05:00 (twenty years ago)

After work Mondays I like to get espresso at the ice cream place and perv on all the hot moms. Sometimes I get vibes from some of them.

― Hurting (Hurting), Thursday, 13 October 2005 05:05 (twenty years ago)

That place has awesome food and really good coffee, btw (I think it's called Main Street Creamery or something like that)

― Hurting (Hurting), Thursday, 13 October 2005 05:07 (twenty years ago)

MILFistown
MILFburg

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Thursday, 13 October 2005 05:10 (twenty years ago)

Well, why would we have to go to New Jersey? ewww. Even the sales tax ain't worth it.
-- Jonothong Williamsmang (ironin...), October 18th, 2005. (later)

FIGHT

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 16:29 (twenty years ago)

Well, MILFs, for one thing.

― Hurting (Hurting), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 16:30 (twenty years ago)

Well, uh if i wanna go shopping in NJ what do I do.

1) PATH Train
2) ?????
3) Profit?

― Jonothong Williamsmang (ex machina), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 16:32 (twenty years ago)

LBI and the Princeton Record Exchange

― rasheed wallace (rasheed wallace), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 16:32 (twenty years ago)

Ikea dude!

― Hurting (Hurting), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 16:33 (twenty years ago)

One reason New Yorkers do occasionally come to our fine state is to see shows at Maxwell's.

― Hurting (Hurting), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 16:34 (twenty years ago)

the last time i went to the record exchange (6 years ago), it seemed to be a shadow of its former self. then again, that was 6 years ago and i've been spoiled by amazon.com and cdnow.com. it's still worth a trip!

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 16:39 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, the internet will spoil you for any record stores.

Dude, we should do a an ILX PREX trip!

― Hurting (Hurting), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 16:40 (twenty years ago)

NOISE FACT #1: The last 4 digits of Jon's phone number spell "IKEA".

Ok, like I don't even know where to take the PATH

― Jonothong Williamsmang (ex machina), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 16:40 (twenty years ago)

Actually I venture to teh PREX this weekend, maybe stop at Hoagie Haven, too.

― rasheed wallace (rasheed wallace), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 16:43 (twenty years ago)

Hmmm, I would be game to go to PREX to spend my first paycheck.

― Jonothong Williamsmang (ex machina), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 16:44 (twenty years ago)

prex is awesome for cheap vinyl.

― astor riviera (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 16:46 (twenty years ago)

I met a girl at the weekend who was from New Jersey and put up a very stout defence of her home state!

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 16:47 (twenty years ago)

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