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HeLLrAiSr

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NJ people rejoice!

Thu Jul 6, 2006 11:30:02 AM #18855 Perm Link

If you're from nj, you'll appreciate this

If you've ever lived in Jersey...you'll appreciate this!!!

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 or Pork Roll.

Home to the less mysterious but the best Italian hot dogs and Italian
sausage with 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 nation's 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 percent of what our nation imports
comes
through Elizabeth Seaport first.

New Jersey is home to one of the nation's busiest airports (in 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 its
playing board after the actual streets in Atlantic City.

And, Atlantic City has the longest boardwalk in the world,

Not to mention salt water taffy,

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.

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HeLLrAiSr

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Thu Jul 6, 2006 11:30:16 AM #18856 Perm Link

All New Jersey natives:
Sal Martorano, Jack Nicholson, Bruce Springsteen, Bon Jovi, Jason
Alexander,
Queen Latifah, 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
Donnelly, Grover Cleveland, Woodrow Wilson, Walt Whitman, Jerry Lewis,
Tom
Cruise, 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 Forsythe, Meryl Streep, Loretta Swit,
Norman
Lloyd, Paul Simon, Jerry Herman, Gordon 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, Bob
Reyers,
Paul Robeson, Ernie Kovacs, Joseph Macchia and, of course, Francis
Albert
Sinatra and "Uncle Floyd" Vivino, Kelly Ripa.

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Aron Schatz

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Re: NJ people rejoice!

Thu Jul 6, 2006 11:30:43 AM #18857 Perm Link

In response to HeLLrAiSr #18855

Add to list: Getting fucked by the state government over a budget that they had a year to agree upon. Add to that: The approved budget that raises our sales tax...

Edited at Thu Jul 6, 2006 7:52:54 PM

2014 is going to be a good year. More content, more streamlining. Be a part of history!

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