and where Uncle Floyd started ... don't forget Uncle Floyd!!! (or you lose yer jersey license!)
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Saturday, 30 October 2004 01:05 (nineteen years ago) link
― darragh.mac (darragh.mac), Saturday, 30 October 2004 01:15 (nineteen years ago) link
Adding to the contradictions that is NJ, disregarding the request to not discuss proximity to NYC, yes, while a portion of NJ is a suburb of NYC, another portion is a suburb of Philadelphia, and people who live in south Jersey do not in any way identify with north Jersey or NYC, despite it not being that long a drive. My family was split in two, my cousins were all in Cherry Hill.
also...Ruts Hut to thread, world-famous "ripper" hot dogs.
― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Saturday, 30 October 2004 03:38 (nineteen years ago) link
― motown modown (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 30 October 2004 03:57 (nineteen years ago) link
― Hurting (Hurting), Saturday, 30 October 2004 04:09 (nineteen years ago) link
― Kenan (kenan), Saturday, 30 October 2004 04:39 (nineteen years ago) link
John Berryman, Ralph Ellison, James Garner, Paul Harvey, Ron Howard, Jeane Kirkpatrick, Bill Moyers, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Tony Randall, Will Rogers, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Bill Blass, James Dean, Theodore Dreiser, Virgil Grissom, David Letterman, Eli Lilly, Carole Lombard, Andrew J. Moywer, Cole Porter, James Whitcomb Riley, Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Wilbur Wright, Ralph Abernathy, Tallulah Bankhead, Nat "King" Cole, Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald, Emmylou Harris, Helen Keller, Coretta Scott King, Harper Lee, Jesse Owens, and Rosa Parks in being illiterate and uncultured slobs shocker.
i.e., Hurting, your obscenely narrow-minded world view appalls me. It is my hope that you're just a glorified trollbeing, but it is my fear that you truly believe the unenlightened bullshit you spew.
― Accept No Substitutes (Dee the Lurker), Saturday, 30 October 2004 05:36 (nineteen years ago) link
(This could also apply to the original thread topic challenge, I think.)
― Accept No Substitutes (Dee the Lurker), Saturday, 30 October 2004 05:39 (nineteen years ago) link
Relax. I thought it was pretty clear that I was being somewhat facetious.
― Hurting (Hurting), Saturday, 30 October 2004 05:53 (nineteen years ago) link
― Hurting (Hurting), Saturday, 30 October 2004 05:54 (nineteen years ago) link
(You want someone to "defend the indefensible", region-wise? I'm [mostly] your girl.)
― Accept No Substitutes (Dee the Lurker), Saturday, 30 October 2004 06:09 (nineteen years ago) link
― cinniblount (James Blount), Saturday, 30 October 2004 06:24 (nineteen years ago) link
― cinniblount (James Blount), Saturday, 30 October 2004 06:25 (nineteen years ago) link
― motown modown (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 30 October 2004 06:31 (nineteen years ago) link
― Vic, Saturday, 30 October 2004 15:14 (nineteen years ago) link
Other reasons to love NJ:
Because of my Joisey accent, my best friend thought I grew up in Marstown until he flew out to NJ with me for a short vacation and we got off 287 at Morristown. He's from Virginia, where they don't skip syllables.
Incredible bakeries.
You had to get on a highway & back off one exit later to reach the closest place to buy milk from my parents old house. However, the store, was really only 1/4 mile away- just on the wrong side of the highway, without which, you could have walked over to it.
DINERS. I can't believe the rest of the country hasn't caught onto how to do these right.
― lyra (lyra), Saturday, 30 October 2004 15:16 (nineteen years ago) link
― Vic, Saturday, 30 October 2004 15:20 (nineteen years ago) link
― mcd (mcd), Saturday, 30 October 2004 16:44 (nineteen years ago) link
― results not typical (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 30 October 2004 16:49 (nineteen years ago) link
― mcd (mcd), Saturday, 30 October 2004 16:53 (nineteen years ago) link
― results not typical (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 30 October 2004 18:46 (nineteen years ago) link
― Wooden (Wooden), Saturday, 30 October 2004 18:47 (nineteen years ago) link
― latebloomer (latebloomer), Saturday, 30 October 2004 19:01 (nineteen years ago) link
― RJG (RJG), Saturday, 30 October 2004 20:10 (nineteen years ago) link
― results not typical (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 30 October 2004 22:10 (nineteen years ago) link
Holy shit, Dan Selzer, are you sure you're not related to me? My brother has not one, but TWO Ruts Hut t-shirts. My dad used to take my mom there for dinner when they were dating. Hot, eh? I love that place, damnit.
I was born in Passaic County and raised in Bergen County, home of the most malls per sq. mile. I love Jersey. It will always be home.
― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Saturday, 30 October 2004 22:34 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Saturday, 30 October 2004 22:40 (nineteen years ago) link
Yes! I went to school in Morris County, and you could walk all over town, and also catch buses or trains to either nearby towns or the city. Now I live in a suburb where you have to drive EVERYWHERE, yuck.
I have never been to the Princeton Record Exchange.
― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Sunday, 31 October 2004 02:22 (nineteen years ago) link
― results not typical (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 31 October 2004 02:47 (nineteen years ago) link
― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Sunday, 31 October 2004 02:48 (nineteen years ago) link
this was a good summary of my undergrad days, when i met students from north jersey. north jersey might have been the northside of mars!
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Sunday, 31 October 2004 02:53 (nineteen years ago) link
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Sunday, 31 October 2004 02:55 (nineteen years ago) link
this book is kinda cool, one of my local libraries has it
― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Sunday, 31 October 2004 03:01 (nineteen years ago) link
― results not typical (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 31 October 2004 03:15 (nineteen years ago) link
― lyra (lyra), Sunday, 31 October 2004 03:18 (nineteen years ago) link
― mike a, Sunday, 31 October 2004 03:59 (nineteen years ago) link
― joseph (joseph), Thursday, 4 November 2004 01:54 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Thursday, 4 November 2004 02:20 (nineteen years ago) link
― mcd (mcd), Thursday, 4 November 2004 03:34 (nineteen years ago) link
That's about it...
― Jimmy Mod always makes friends with women before bedding them down (ModJ), Thursday, 4 November 2004 03:39 (nineteen years ago) link
isn't that enough?
― trigonalmayhem (trigonalmayhem), Thursday, 4 November 2004 03:48 (nineteen years ago) link
YES
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Thursday, 4 November 2004 04:42 (nineteen years ago) link
i'm not even from new jersey and i love it.
― el sabor de gene (yournullfame), Thursday, 4 November 2004 06:27 (nineteen years ago) link
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Thursday, 4 November 2004 06:35 (nineteen years ago) link
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 (nineteen years ago) link
they have crazy sandwiches called 'fat moons' that have chips, burgers and mozzarella stix fillings.
― sophie, Thursday, 4 November 2004 09:59 (nineteen years ago) link
― .adam (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 00:19 (nineteen years ago) link
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 00:23 (nineteen years ago) link
― .adam (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 00:24 (nineteen years ago) link
Didn't Uncle Joe's close years ago?
― #fomo that's the motto (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 3 September 2013 14:40 (ten years ago) link
Anyway, came to post this, which my friends make:
http://www.drivingjersey.com/drivingjersey.com/Home.html
― #fomo that's the motto (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 3 September 2013 14:41 (ten years ago) link
It seems the real Bridgegate story may be in Hoboken
http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/mayor-christie-camp-held-sandy-money-hostage
― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 18 January 2014 16:24 (ten years ago) link
i'm starting to smell prison
Governor Chris Christie today announced that New Jersey Department of Transportation Commissioner Jamie Fox will transition back to the private sector by the end of the month, when NJDOT Deputy Commissioner Joseph Bertoni will take over as Acting Commissioner.
A prominent Democrat who worked for both former Governor James McGreevey and former Senator Bob Torricelli, Fox worked as a lobbyist for United Airlines prior to going to the Christie Administration, and prior to the resignation of a United Airlines CEO amid a federal probe of the Bridgegate scandal.
WNYC’s Matt Katz reported earlier this week that while a lobbyist, “Fox tried to influence Democrats in the Legislature to back off from its investigation of the mysterious lane closures at the George Washington Bridge in the fall of 2013, according to three sources from the Legislature and Port Authority close to the investigation.”
http://politickernj.com/2015/10/christie-fox-done-as-dot-commissioner/
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Friday, 2 October 2015 23:44 (eight years ago) link
Cory Booker's cutesy pandering to HRC crowd at today's rally makes me want to fwow up on him weal bad
@KattyKayBBCCory Booker - Teddy Roosevelt was wrong it's not a man we need in the arena, it's a woman.
@dick_nixon The Navy has a name for this sort of thing.
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 1 June 2016 19:53 (seven years ago) link
Jennifer Epstein@jenepsCory Booker: "I hate to contradict Bon Jovi but, dear God, Hillary Clinton you give love a good name"
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 1 June 2016 19:54 (seven years ago) link
@pareenePpl shouldn't get rich as the country falls into crisis, I agree with the failed Newark mayor who became a millionaire thru a sham startup
― The Hon. J. Piedmont Mumblethunder (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 26 July 2016 14:49 (seven years ago) link
http://www.nj.com/politics/index.ssf/2017/07/christie_pictured_at_island_beach_state_park_durin.html#incart_river_home
People hoping to visit Island Beach State Park this holiday weekend were not allowed in because of the state government shutdown Gov. Chris Christie ordered amid the state budget standoff in Trenton. But there was one family there: Christie's. They are using the summer beach house provided by the state for a weekend down the Shore.And here are exclusive aerial photos by NJ Advance Media showing Christie surrounded by wife Mary Pat and others. It was taken early Sunday afternoon before the governor headed to Trenton to hold another news conference about the shutdown.
But there was one family there: Christie's. They are using the summer beach house provided by the state for a weekend down the Shore.
And here are exclusive aerial photos by NJ Advance Media showing Christie surrounded by wife Mary Pat and others.
It was taken early Sunday afternoon before the governor headed to Trenton to hold another news conference about the shutdown.
― j., Monday, 3 July 2017 00:46 (six years ago) link
it's not often that you get a shot of the governor looking up at the helicopter camera
― Karl Malone, Monday, 3 July 2017 03:35 (six years ago) link
Christie's money quote this weekend was "You're lookin' at Mr. Reasonable."
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Monday, 3 July 2017 03:43 (six years ago) link
He must be trying to sink his approval ratings as low as possible. #embracethedisgrace
― Treeship, Monday, 3 July 2017 03:47 (six years ago) link
"as saltwater taffy shortages continue across the state a life-sized taffy sculpture of the governor's wife was wheeled into his mansion"— slackbot (@pareene) July 2, 2017
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Monday, 3 July 2017 05:26 (six years ago) link
Chris Christie: From Here to Eternity pic.twitter.com/Rxf6uZhjLW— Nell Scovell (@NellSco) July 3, 2017
― j., Monday, 3 July 2017 18:20 (six years ago) link
Normandy Beach #NeverForget pic.twitter.com/dRx4HJoRpk— Edel Rodriguez (@edelstudio) July 3, 2017
― j., Tuesday, 4 July 2017 01:32 (six years ago) link
And here I was thinking that purposefully creating traffic on the GWB was the height of douchebaggery...
― calstars, Tuesday, 4 July 2017 01:49 (six years ago) link
ICYMI
In bombshell testimony that’s likely to dog the Christie administration in its final months, NJ Transit’s fired chief compliance officer said Friday he was forced out with little explanation after his repeated attempts to raise questions about systemic issues at the troubled agency, which he called a “runaway train.”...
Particularly troublesome to lawmakers were the issues of patronage hiring, which they have been looking at closely since last year. NJ Transit has been unable to provide resumes for numerous top staffers and officials could not explain why it had been unable to locate any such records.
http://www.politico.com/states/new-jersey/story/2017/08/25/fired-nj-transit-executive-says-agency-is-runaway-train-114153
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 29 August 2017 16:51 (six years ago) link
https://explorepartsunknown.com/new-jersey/bourdains-field-notes-new-jersey/
― the ignatius rock of ignorance (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 14 June 2018 14:35 (five years ago) link
thanks,going to watch that one again tonight!
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Thursday, 14 June 2018 14:53 (five years ago) link
:(
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/06/trenton-arts-festival-mass-shooting-leaves-20-injured.html
― reggie (qualmsley), Sunday, 17 June 2018 15:48 (five years ago) link
Today, I signed historic legislation to protect reproductive freedom in New Jersey – codifying the right to choose into state law and expanding contraception coverage. In New Jersey, we trust each individual person to make their reproductive choices for themselves. pic.twitter.com/5fOb6azXIa— Governor Phil Murphy (@GovMurphy) January 13, 2022
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Thursday, 13 January 2022 19:19 (two years ago) link