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May 31, 2003
50 Reasons
(link snagged via <a href="http://www.gigglechick.com/erin/blog/002176.php#002176">gigglechick</a>)
50 Reasons Why You Might Be From the Jersey Shore... (with my commentary on these items)
(i think a benny who's a jersey shore local wannabe wrote this)
1. You don't understand why there aren't more 24-hour diners elsewhere in the country. (Where else can you order mozzarella sticks, fries with brown gravy or a full breakfast after the bars close?)
2. You know what a Wawa is, and know the location of at least 15 of them. (ton's of Wawa's down here but we usually hit 7-11 - the one by the beach)
3. You think a mountain is that big freakin' hill in Atlantic Highlands. (pretty much, with the exception of a great sleddign hill that was destroyed for a developement)
4. You know Asbury Park is no longer the Mecca of East Coast resort towns. (ugh! Now it's a dump. I never made it to any 102.7 WNEW concerts there)
5. Even though there's a new Walmart in your town, you still go to the Englishtown Auction for cheap stuff. (Anyone remember Peddlars Village in Wall? Best stuff ever)
6. You can name all the flavors of salt water taffy. (Yuck - hate the stuff)
7. Your car is covered with yellow-green dust in April and May. (NASTY! I hate pollen)
8. You buy Shop-Rite brand food at Shop-Rite. (Now I do but I used to do most of my shopping at FoodTown in the Sea Girt Plaza)
9. You can smell and know when it's low tide. (:::gag:: yep!)
10. The Jets/Giants game has started fights at your school and/or local bar. (deoending on the bar.. oh yeah)
11. There are no self serve gas stations and you like it that freaking' way... "yous gotta problem wit dat?" (self serve sucks.)
12. You've had sex on the beach, and I'm not talking about the beverage. (:::whistling::: Pass)
13. You know how to successfully handle a traffic circle. (Hehehe - it's fun tot watch the bennies freak out at the circle)
14. You know what skeeball is and you can get three 50's in a row. (yeah baby! Belmar Playland anyone?)
15. You think the Olive Garden is crap and should have never opened any restaurants in New Jersey. (Totally)
16. You've run out of money on the Parkway. (Yep)
17. You're Italian. (nope)
18. You know where to get the best bagel. (Of course!)
19. Donald Trump is mentioned at least daily in your local paper. (only if speaking about Atlantic City)
20. You say "water" weird. ("no i don't... everyone else says it strange" - I'll stick with Erin's answer on this)
21. Even your school made good Italian subs. (ew - no way)
22. You've lived through hurricanes, nor'easters and fires, but have never, seen a tornado, earthquake, tsunami or volcano. (give me hurricanes and nor'easters any day)
23. You can't believe MTV went to Seaside Heights. (I even have some pictures to prove it!)
24. You know that ACME is an actual store, not just a Warner Bros. creation. (LOL! In Manasquan)
25. You only go to New York City for day trips. (absolutely)
26. You know what a "jug handle" is. (another land trap for bennies)
27. You have mandatory recycling. Enforced by law. (Yeah - better watch it around here!)
28. You've eaten a pork roll and cheese on a hard roll...and like it. (Ugh - I hate them but I have cooked more than my fair share while working at the Allenwood General Store)
29. You go to at least one parade at the boardwalk each year. (no way)
30. You've pondered, "Maybe basketball would be more popular in New Jersey if the Nets didn't blow," (hate basketball anyway)
31. You can go bowling at 1:30 A.M. (with automatic scoring)! (Bradley Bowl baby!)
32. In high school, you worked at a Friendly's. (none by me - I always wanted to work at Circle Freeze)
33. Route 18 doesn't freak you out at night. (Nope - but 195 sure does)
34. Because your town was founded before 1776, all the restaurants, taverns, and shops have "ye," "olde," and "colonial" in their names. (haven't seen that)
35. You don't have to go to red lobster to get fresh seafood. (Oh man -pick any place in Manasquan, Avon, Belmar, Brielle, Point for fresh seafood)
36. You once said, "It smells like New York in here," (lol - never)
37. You've waited for the goddamn drawbridge for more than 20 damn minutes. (only if you didn't keep an eye on the time. God help you if you had to pee)
38. At least three people in your family still love Bruce Springsteen. (oh yeah)
39. There's a fruit and vegetable stand down the road. (I miss the old mom and pop places. They didn't even have to be at the stand - it was based on honor system)
40. "Anyone who makes bad pizza can go to hell" is your attitude. (Pete and Eldas is delicious. Squan Taven ain't so bad and Vics Taven is also yummy!)
41. You always use a minimum of 10 variations of the word "damn"while driving. (LOL - and them some)
42. You don't take any **** from anybody. Especially from someone from New York, because you live here for Christ's sake and just who the hell do they think they are anyway? Invading our damn beaches and bars, they're just here for the damn summer and they think they own the damn place (YEAH! I'll drink to that)
43. You've gone to the race track with twenty different daily double bets from twenty different people (::blushing:: I have never been to the track)
44. You've spent St. Patrick's Day in Belmar. (No - but the parade isn't ON St. Patrick's Day. It's held a couple weekends BEFORE)
45. You know that there are bakeries which are not part of a supermarket, but actual individual stores. (can't forget the Ritz Bakery or Freedmans)
46. You've ordered a "hard roll with butter" for breakfast. (I think it's a law)
47. One time, a sea gull **** on your head. (One time?)
48. You've eaten at a Windmill, drunk off your ass, at am at least a dozen times. (No but they have great hot dogs. You gotta eat, while drunk off your ass, at the diner)
49. You know what a "benny" is and can pick one out at the beach. (pretty much)
50. You've planned a local trip around ensuring you pass at least one dunkin' donuts. (well yeah. Gotta get me a cruller and a coffee)
Thanks Erin - these were a lot of fun!
Posted by Cate at May 31, 2003 02:50 PM
Comments
Does anyone actually say "hard roll with butter?" If I ask for a "buttered roll," I get a hard roll with butter without having to use so many words.
Posted by: mary at May 31, 2003 03:20 PM
"Pork roll?" Isn't it more commonly referred to as "Taylor Ham?" (Did you know that you can't buy it anywhere but in New Jersey?)
Posted by: mary at May 31, 2003 03:27 PM
Wow. I need to come up with some of these for California.
P.S. I got paid leave from work tonight because it's so slow! Woo hoo!
Posted by: Da Goddess at June 1, 2003 12:41 AM
I remember Wawa from my Joisey days (I lived in central and South Jersey during the late 70's/early 80's). I used to watch the welfare rabbits waste my tax dollars doing all of their food shopping in there! I'd just go in there to buy a soda!
We have evil traffic circles (rotaries) here in Messychusetts.
Olive Garden...why eat there, when we have the North End here in Boston???
I used to shop at ACME...Mike still does not believe me to this day!
Fresh seafood = MAINE
I've dealt with the drawbridge thing.
Mike has suffered, watching me play skee-ball for hours at York's Wild kingdom, York Beach, Maine!
Cool!
Posted by: Christine at June 1, 2003 05:23 AM
it's pork roll down the shore... :)
Posted by: erin at June 2, 2003 12:27 PM
just thought of another one. you've been passed by a school bus running a red light.... only in jersey...
Posted by: shades at June 7, 2003 06:56 PM
You snobby jackasses who think you own the Atlantic can bite me!Just because you are fortunate enough to live on the coast makes you a better class of person?? I would rather live,work eat and die with bennies that breathe the same air as stuck up dillholes! BENNIE AND PROUD!!!!
Posted by: E TEE at August 10, 2003 03:39 PM
I just moved here from New York and I have to say Jersey Sucks. I wouldn't be so proud of the 50 things...it's actually embarrising!
Posted by: Me at August 12, 2003 01:12 PM
Then move back to NY you asshole Where di you move to Newark? Jersey city?
Posted by: E TEE at August 15, 2003 08:53 AM
Ode to New Jersey
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 most dense system of highways and railroads in the US.
New Jersey has the most diners in the world and is sometimes referred to as the Diner Capital of the world. (Here's to the Tic Toc on Rt. 3and the home to the greatest cheesecake on the planet, the now defunct Claremont Diner.)
New Jersey is home to the original mystery pork parts chub (no, not spam) Taylor Ham or Pork Roll. Yo!.....with fried egg & mustard on a hardroll.
Home to the less mysterious but 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.
New Jersey rocks! 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.
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.
New Jersey is home to both of "NEW YORK'S " ProFootball Teams!
The first radio station and broadcast was in Paterson, NJ.
All New Jersey natives:
Sal Martorano, Jack Nicholson, Bruce Springsteen,Bon Jovi, Jason Alexander, Queen Latifa, Susan Sarandon, 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 Wm.Halsey,Jr., Dave Thomas (Wendy's), William Carlos Williams, Ray Liotta, Robert Wuhl, Paul Robeson, Ernie Kovacs, Joseph Macchia and of course.........
Francis Albert Sinatra and "Uncle Floyd" Vivino.
Posted by: E Tee at August 30, 2003 08:15 AM
Whoever wrote the list is from the Monmouth County part of the Jersey Shore--where I grew up and lived until last year. Now I'm down here in S. Jersey, near AC, and people have the nerve to call THIS the Jersey Shore, too! Meanwhile, they call Italian Ice "water ice" as if that makes any sense. Most people here are transplants from Pennsylvania. It's lonely for a girl like me who spent summers working at Belmar Playland or Linden Court Motel and hanging out on the beach in Spring Lake (Pier Beach yeah!). A friend of mine started an East Coasters club when she moved out to San Fran. Maybe I should start a Monmouth County club down here in the Pinelands.
Posted by: Ronda at October 24, 2003 03:56 PM
I HAVE TO SAY NEW JERSEY IS A BEAUTIFUL PLACE, BUT WHAT MAKES IT SUCK IS THE PEOPLE.. EVERYONE HERE IS SO RUDE AND I AM FROM TEXAS AND I SAY WHEN PEOPLE COME TO TEXAS THEY ARE WELCOMED, HERE IN JERSEY EVERYONE IS SO STRESSED AND ALWAYS WHINING ABOUT SOMETHING.. BUT I HAVE LEARNED TO DISH THE SHIT RIGHT BACK OUT, AND THAT HAS HELPED ME TOLERATE AND BE ABLE TO LIVE IN THE MADNESS THAT IS NEW JERSEY.....
Posted by: sharon at November 14, 2003 09:08 AM
Yea some people there do suck but there are a lot of awesome people that live in new jersey. There just something about it, you don't find people like that anywhere. I live in the south now and the people here are very nice but I still miss my jersey roots!
Posted by: Marikaye at November 20, 2003 09:58 AM
NEW JERSEY IS THE GREATEST!!! all you bennies that come down here to the shore in monmouth county talk so much shit about new jersey then go the hell home. No one wants you here. And the people here can be rude because they have to deal with the damn NEW YORKERS. GO HOME BENNIES!!!!
Posted by: holmes at December 23, 2003 01:38 PM
well what can i say, all of the jersey shore locals can't stand bennys but too bad-you all have nasty attitudes even to me and im a really nice guy. lighten up because if you like it or not-im coming back this summer and im half italian. what would you fine race of jersey shore locals do without having people like me to talk about anyway. if i get one undeserved nasty attitude this summer from some local natzi im going to put an italian flag sticker on there car right over your "dont pull me over im a local" sticker. and i hate guidos, but im starting to hate all of you too. ill put you all in your place this summer. but anyway have a great night
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Tallest Man of the World
Name : NASEER AHMED SOOMRO
Height : 237cm (7?-8?)
Weight : 200 Pounds
Shoes : 19 inches
Shikarpur Sind Pakistan : 1974
Family Member : Brothers-3, Sister-3
Favorite Sports : Hockey, Cricket, Base Ball
Favorite Dishes : Pakistani Vegetables & Chinese
Achievements : Represented Pakistan Nation Culture
: Throughout to World from Time to Time
And Explored More Then 14 Countries of the World
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Posted by: imran at June 15, 2004 05:17 AM
Subject: Be part of the world record holder person for the promotion in all over the world make contact as soon as possible & earn million of dollars.
Dear Sir, Mr .Naseer Ahmed Soomro
Tallest Man of the World
Name : NASEER AHMED SOOMRO
Height : 237cm (7?-8?)
Weight : 200 Pounds
Shoes : 19 inches
Shikarpur Sind Pakistan : 1974
Family Member : Brothers-3, Sister-3
Favorite Sports : Hockey, Cricket, Base Ball
Favorite Dishes : Pakistani Vegetables & Chinese
Achievements : Represented Pakistan Nation Culture
: Throughout to World from Time to Time
And Explored More Then 14 Countries of the World
I think now i should come to the point,
Who I am what I want to you and why I am writing so long letter to you
Hi I am Shaikh Abdul Rehman (Imran) from Pakistan Karachi sindh I have done complete my graduate in Information technology. And I couldn?t get any job yet.
For this I donot want to get job. actually I want to permot the person who is belong to Pakistan sikkarpour sindh and no reason write now he is the worlds tallest man also he has geneses book of world record certificate .who?s name is Mr. Naseer Ahamed Soomro & he got the 7 feet and 8 inch and half.
You would be agree that Pakistan are a nation of abundant and enormous adequacy. They have progressed the many of year in their effort to elevate Pakistan to greater height and have over the years accomplished it in many ways. You would be please to know that among others myriad achievements of this country, it also relishes with pride and distinction, a record that stands undefeated world over.if you are redy to give response so, as soon as possible make contact on these addresses.
worldstallestman@hotmail.com
imran_loveme@hotmail.com
amazingrehman786@hotmail.com
amazingrehman786@yahoo.com
Mobile#0300-2737841
Address: H# 174,Hyderabad colony Karachi #5
Posted by: imran at June 15, 2004 05:17 AM
Subject: Be part of the world record holder person for the promotion in all over the world make contact as soon as possible & earn million of dollars.
Dear Sir, Mr .Naseer Ahmed Soomro
Tallest Man of the World
Name : NASEER AHMED SOOMRO
Height : 237cm (7?-8?)
Weight : 200 Pounds
Shoes : 19 inches
Shikarpur Sind Pakistan : 1974
Family Member : Brothers-3, Sister-3
Favorite Sports : Hockey, Cricket, Base Ball
Favorite Dishes : Pakistani Vegetables & Chinese
Achievements : Represented Pakistan Nation Culture
: Throughout to World from Time to Time
And Explored More Then 14 Countries of the World
I think now i should come to the point,
Who I am what I want to you and why I am writing so long letter to you
Hi I am Shaikh Abdul Rehman (Imran) from Pakistan Karachi sindh I have done complete my graduate in Information technology. And I couldn?t get any job yet.
For this I donot want to get job. actually I want to permot the person who is belong to Pakistan sikkarpour sindh and no reason write now he is the worlds tallest man also he has geneses book of world record certificate .who?s name is Mr. Naseer Ahamed Soomro & he got the 7 feet and 8 inch and half.
You would be agree that Pakistan are a nation of abundant and enormous adequacy. They have progressed the many of year in their effort to elevate Pakistan to greater height and have over the years accomplished it in many ways. You would be please to know that among others myriad achievements of this country, it also relishes with pride and distinction, a record that stands undefeated world over.if you are redy to give response so, as soon as possible make contact on these addresses.
worldstallestman@hotmail.com
imran_loveme@hotmail.com
amazingrehman786@hotmail.com
amazingrehman786@yahoo.com
Mobile#0300-2737841
Address: H# 174,Hyderabad colony Karachi #5
Posted by: imran at June 15, 2004 05:28 AM
i live in central jersey n i come to belmar like all the time its the best place ever..i practically live there..planning to sometime in the future
Posted by: jersey grl at June 28, 2004 05:23 PM
