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Fri 14 Jan, 2005 03:41 pm
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 densest 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)
TAYLOR HAM 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 John
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.
The famous Les Paul 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 Elizabeth. Nearly 80% of what our nation imports comes through
Elizabeth Seaport first.
New Jersey is home to one of the nation's busiest airports at Newark Liberty International.
George Washington slept here. Several important Revolutionary War battles were fought on New Jersey soil, led by General George Washington.
The light bulb, phonograph (record player) and motion picture projector were invented by Thomas 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 Frank 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. Thomas
Armstrong.
All New Jersey Natives:
Sal Martorano, Jack Nicholson, Bon Jovi, Jason Alexander, Queen Latifa,
Susan Sarandon, Bruce Springsteen, Connie Francis, Shaq, Judy Blume.
Aaron Burr, Joan Robertson, Ken Kross, Dionne Warwick, Sarah Vaughn, Budd Abbott, Lou Costello, Alan Ginsberg, Norman Mailer, Marilynn McCoo, Flip Wilson, Alexander Hamilton, Whitney Houston, Eddie Money, Linda McElroy, Eileen Donnely.
Grover Cleveland, Woodrow Wilson, Walt Whitman, Jerry Lewis, Tom
Cruise, Richard Wojewodzki, Joyce Kilmer, Bruce Willis, Caesar Romero,
Lauryn Hill, Ice-T, Nick Adams, Nathan Lane, Sandra Dee, Danny DeVito,
Richard Conti, Joe Pesci.
Joe Piscopo, Robert Blake, John Forsyth, Meryl Streep, Loretta Swit, Norman Lloyd, Paul Simon, Jerry Herman, Gorden McCrae, Kevin Spacey.
John Travolta, Phyllis Newman, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Eva Marie Saint, Elisabeth Shue, Zebulon Pike, James Fennimore Cooper.
Admiral William (Bull) Halsey, Jr.,Dave Thomas (Wendy's), William Carlos Williams, Ray Liotta, Robert Wuhl, Bob Reyers, Paul Robeson , Ernie Kovacs, Joseph Macchia and of course.........Francis Albert Sinatra
and "Uncle Floyd" Vivino.
I also understand it's a great place to dump bodies.
I lived in Vineland so I know Jersey tomatos are good.
Also, doesn't Jersey have more acres of woods per capita than any other state? Something about the Pine Barrens.
The New Jersey Pine Barrens or Pinelands, is a unique environmental treasure. It covers about 1 million acres of largely undeveloped land in the nation most densely populated state (NJ) It is designated as a biosphere reserve by the United Nations and a "Last Great Place" by the Nature Conservancy for its environmental importance. It contains wild waterways including the Batsto River, Mullica River, Wading River, Maurice River, and Great Egg Harbor River. For more information click on Pine Barrens Fact Sheet.
Joe(
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New Jersey has Frank Aspia.
This is gonna be trouble, sooner or later, you mark my words, these threads is gonna cause tears before bedtime....
Uh, shewolf, I think that under the rules of the witness protection program revealing the location of .... oh, never mind, I think he has mentioned Piscataway before and that would be a clue.
Joe(The fold in the map hid the turnoff) Nation
Cape May's pretty darn nice.
The tollbooth drop money in thingies are too high for people in short cars though. I lost more money trying to fling it up into the bucket ...
Joe Nation wrote:The New Jersey Pine Barrens or Pinelands, is a unique environmental treasure. It covers about 1 million acres of largely undeveloped land in the nation most densely populated state (NJ) It is designated as a biosphere reserve by the United Nations and a "Last Great Place" by the Nature Conservancy for its environmental importance. It contains wild waterways including the Batsto River, Mullica River, Wading River, Maurice River, and Great Egg Harbor River. For more information click on Pine Barrens Fact Sheet.
Joe(
Tree Freaks click hereNation
What...no mention of Jimmy Hoffa????
cjhsa wrote:It also has Valkenvania.
Get outta here???
Was Valkenvania supposedly in New Jersey?
You ain't just making this up, are ya?
I thought they took a scenic route off of the Jersey Turnpike.
Where else could it have been?
cjhsa wrote:I thought they took a scenic route off of the Jersey Turnpike.
Where else could it have been?
Okay...okay.
I walked inta dat one.
Chalk one up for you.
I'll wait around....and my turn will come.
All of which is much better than the standard New Jersey retort to something like your comment, which would be...
...I gotcha "where else could it have been" right heah.
Right heah!!!
:wink:
Jimmy Hoffa, last I heard, was enjoying the view from inside his barrel buried under the South End goalposts of Giants Stadium.
Another non-controversial point of view: :wink:
Compared to other states, a disproportionate number of New Jersey people are on public assistance.
New Jersey leads the nation in the percentage of women who are infected with HIV.
New Jersey has the highest auto insurance rates in the nation.
New Jersey has the highest property taxes in the nation. In fact, your average property tax bill is now a whopping $5000 per year!
New Jersey has the highest cigarette tax in the nation.
New Jersey has the second highest statewide housing costs in the nation.
New Jersey has the fifth highest amount of tax-supported debt in the nation.
New Jersey has one of the highest statewide costs of living in the nation.
New Jersey collects income taxes, sales taxes, property taxes, sin taxes, casino taxes, tourism taxes, and highway tolls, yet the state has massive budget problems.
New Jersey ranks first in the nation in per-pupil spending, but its students' reading and math scores only achieve an average national ranking.
New Jersey is the most densely populated and overcrowded state in the nation. Hope you like standing in long lines and sitting in traffic jams.
The Jersey shore (don't say beaches) is vastly overrated. First, you have to fight your way through traffic jams and toll booths. Next, you have to pay for parking. Then you have to pay for beach tags to use a public beach! Finally, the ocean will be murky, freezing cold, or filled with jellyfish.
Atlantic City will always be a cut-rate resort compared to Las Vegas.
Viva LA
They also have the fictional Sopranos.
And if you really want to tick off a Jersey guy down here in Florida, call him a New Yorker.
And bragging about that airport in Newark...
So you gots some problems there in Joizy...so what?
I'm still trying to figure out why they haven't moved this thread to the humor forum.
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