I am going to make your night a little worse. Please review post #11 by **Colibri **
In fact I commented on it in post #28 
That said, great song. I really enjoy singing it at environmental events.
Jim
That was true years ago, but not any more. Now it is a filthy big confusing airport.
One of my uncles by marriage was from Bayonne, I remember him always smoking Camels and talking in a tough accent, but he was also a talented landscape painter.
I must be a patriotic American: the first things that come to mind when I think of New Jersey are Molly Pitcher the warrior woman of the Revolution, and Washington crossing the Delaware. Also, Princeton is where Albert Einstein lived at the end of his life. I guess I have NJ filed in my brain under American history and science.
I just want to point out that I’m Sicilian-American, I have no interest in The Sopranos, not all Sicilian-Americans fit the stereotype of the Mob. Many of us are kind of tired of hearing about it since it never had anything to do with our families, and there are lots more interesting subjects in the world. Like women warriors and unified field theories…
Yoose guys better leave my wife outta dis here conversation.
Grew up in Jersey (Cinnaminson: Sin-city, baby). The fun and sun here in Florida gets a little tiring at times and I pine for the Pine Barrens, jug handles, Jersey corn, tomatoes, pizza, hoagies, cheese steaks, salt water taffy, shoe fly pie, big-headed mutant feral cats, Tasty Kakes…etc.
People poke fun at Jersey because they’re jealous—period.
Don’t listen to Jim, you are 100% correct.
WOO!!! We’re number one!!!
And, FTR, it’s outshadowed by NYC, but the value can’t be beat. Many immigrants (legal/illegal) like to live as close as possible to New York, but make home in NJ because nobody can afford NYC.
The Pineys are also radioactive. scroll down to June 7, 1960
I am reasonably sure you are joking again. In case you are not, have you really found some serious populations of “isolated, inbred hillbillies” in the Pine Barrens?
I would be quite shocked from my limited time spent in the Barrens and knowing people who grew up in the Barrens. There are some older families that have been there for centuries that seem to have kids with what I think of as horse faces, but they go to school, get normal jobs and more often than not move out of the Barrens or even out of state. The Barrens are large enough to in theory hide some old inbred swap rats, but I have not heard of more than a few isolated individuals living well off the roads. They are usually old and alone.
Quite a thing to be #1 in. For what it is worth, we have had more successful clean-ups than any other state.
Jim
Big problem is that the 2 main thoroughfares in the state, I-95 and the Jersey Turnpike, run through much of the worst industrial sections that New Jersey has to offer. Many people never see anything other than this.
There was a hilarious parody in the National Lampoon from the late 1970’s called “New Jersey Smell Tours,” in which one was transported through the state on a bus with an enormous air scoop on top, and provided an exhaustive (pun intended) list of all the pollutants one would encounter. Then governor Brendan Byrne “endorses” the tours, and they managed to find a picture of him looking like he’s taking a crap.
Nearer to the coast there are some superb stretches of open, rural land and a section of the Appalachian Trail runs through the northwestern part of the state. I still wouldn’t want to live there because of the massive amounts of pollution produced just to the west, carried on the prevailing winds to the nicer areas.
You mean like this?
Haha! Ditto NW Morris county & my new digs in Warren county. Beautiful, beautiful areas. I can leave my door unlocked at night and still be on Broadway in about an hour. Perfect.
NJ is like any other state - it has its good and bad points. I lived in Fort Lauderdale for years, which to me is like NYC with better weather & less culture 
I don’t see the love for it except the weather.
Happiness is where you find it - no matter what state it’s in.
VCNJ~
Pre-industrial Bayonne was actually sort of a nice old town to be from. A couple of my minor cultural heroes came from there: Dave Harris, saxophonist with the Raymond Scott Quintette, and Al Protzman, television’s first technical director.
I just plain didn’t believe you guys when you said that the Appalachian Trail went through NJ. But I just looked it up and sure enough there’s a 72 mile stretch taking a nick out of the north end of the state.
Ignorance fought.
I think one reason for some of Jersey’s issues is that its a place where trends happen first. They don’t have the benefit of watching someone else do things first and learning from the other guys, mistakes. NJ industrialized before pollution was ever a concern. When postwar white flight took off, there was NJ to take in NYC’s huddled masses. So NJ got to be the example of suburban sprawl and all of it’s consequences.
So we should be grateful to the Garden State for always taking one for the team. They’re there to show us how not to do it.
Stop pissing in my Corn Flakes. What good are having stereotypes if you can’t have fun with them? I distinctly heard Deuling Banjos while driving through New Egypt.
I also wanted to include some links to the purty part of NJ:
My old stomping grounds in Long Valley:
http://www.washtwpmorris.org/
Well Sweep Herb Farm - Warren county:
http://www.wellsweep.com/
View from my back deck - Warren county:
VCNJ~ (NJ apologista extraordinaire) 
Much worse, think buck teeth, lots of gaps in the teeth, large mouths, somewhat pronounced jawline. I cannot describe this any better, but I did observe it. Runs stronger in the woman.
A link from the last Jersey dopefest at my house.
Deer in my backyard during the fest.
Jim
I must say I hate Jersey. Their trafic systems that emininate left turns just suck. I’ve spent many times lost in Jersey. As a rule I never get off an exit in jersey because I will get lost. I remember spending two hours within view of my hotel but unable to get to it. I don’t have problems getting around like that in other states or even other countries.
We make it difficult to keep out the riff-raff. Glad to see it’s working.
It’s not the greatest plan. Once I get in I’m stuck there. Wouldn’t I sign saying ‘don’t come here’ work better?
That is just the NJ required intelligence test in action.
Would you like to know the results of your testing?
