Sigh WHEN WILL NEW JERSEY GET MORE RESPECT?
I mean, really, the Turnpike is only a small percentage of the state. The rest of it can be quite beautiful. Also, we need a state song. We’re the only state without an official song.
At least you don’t have one that’s an earworm worse than Small Small World…
There’s lots of people who don’t think of New Jersey as an abnormally bad place and actually respect it.
In New Jersey.
New Orleans. From party town USA to disaster victim.
If it makes you feel better, my friend in Bulgaria, who is still living in the 80s, is fascinated by and wants to visit New Jersey, because Jon Bon Jovi is from there.
Needless to say, I find this hilarious. I’m pretty sure this is when I learned how to say “pollution” (zamursyavane) in Bulgarian.
Lake Erie.
In the seventies, almost a dead lake due to pollution. Now? Many nice vacation spots. I’ve even swam in it in the last couple of years, something I never pictured myself doing as a kid.
Thanks for making one of my points. I specifically named Louis XV and XVI.
There is a difference between “there were two agressive rulers with a bunch of not-so-agressive rulers and a revolution in between” and “a warrior nation”.
And, I repeat again, if being engaged in a bunch of wars makes you “a warrior nation”, then every european political entity bigger than a postage stamp was a warrior nation between thereabouts of 400AD and… heck, still now.
But RealityChuck’s right. France used to be the aggressive superpower of Europe. It was the country that every other country felt threatened by.