Ask a guy from New Jersey anything...

[MakiSupaStar]

So 280 posts in, how you feeling champ? Need more water? More jump rope? You got this brother. You got it.

 

[EricF]

Fact - everywhere in LA takes 20 minutes.

...or 2 hours, depending on traffic.

 

[macaroni tony]

^ ha! +1

There is no middle ground...everything truly does take either 20 minutes, or 2 hours

 

[Relic]

1) How many cars did Paul Simon count on the New Jersey Turnpike?

2) Did every single one of those cars go off to look for America?

3) Had Paul Simon been backed by Dishwalla, would they have only counted blue cars?

1) he lost count around the part when he had to look away to search for some more cigarettes. Had useless Cathy not been sleeping, she could have had her arse looking for the damn cigarettes and we would have known the answer.

2) They tried but apparently all got stuck on Rt 1 in New Brunswick and died of old age while waiting for the traffic to lighten up.

3) No, they would have simply counted on the fact that "Simon's Garfwalla" being a name that sounded a lot like a disease.

So 280 posts in, how you feeling champ? Need more water? More jump rope? You got this brother. You got it.

How I feel about my choice of thread topic ->

 

[MatticusMania]

^ ha! +1

There is no middle ground...everything truly does take either 20 minutes, or 2 hours

+1

Plan accordingly.

 

[scorpionldr]

My family was from Fairlawn and Paterson (though I still have a few cousins in Clifton too)...

Since 99 they are at 23-20 Maple Ave in Fairlawn and recently I see they have opened a second location in Wayne. I think I need to plan a road trip, I have no connection to Fair Lawn any more, but Wayne is easier to fit into a trip.
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and the local flavor of redneck... the Piney!

I live on the edge of the place... other than the ticks, I love the area

can't forget about the north jersey mineys either.

 

[Funky Ghost]

Was this really necessary?

 

[guitar ed]

I married a Jersey girl. I keep my damn'd mouth shut.

edg

 

[JimB52]

my brother used to live in Jackson. His backyard backed right up to the pines. During the day his yard was gorgeous. At night? Holy crap that place was creepy and pitch black.
I've been through the pines a few times and lemme tell ya, that place can get freaky. Cool, but freaky.

When I was about 12 and in the Boy Scouts, we did this land-navigation thing where we went into the Pines for miles, then had to navigate our way north to a point, then south - sort of a huge triangle. In the middle of the pines, miles away from everything, we came across the ruins of two old houses. No roads, no paths or lanes...
The tops had literally caved in and they were just shells. You want to talk about having the creeps and feeling like you were being watched. We got the hell out of there. I would love to go back now and see if I could find them.

The noises at night in the Pine Barrens are odd, to say rhe least. Sometimes it sounds like the woods are full of howler monkeys.

I'll bet the scouts trip was in Wharton State Forest. Lots of abandoned houses out there, especially near the Ghost Train.

 

[Relic]

Was this really necessary?

Sorta... lemme 'splain it to ya this way - back in the 80's Bon Jovi was pretty popular here, if you strove to have the same big hair and tight jeans look back then and played in a band that covered Bon Jovi, you would get humped mercilessly. Oooooh yes. Man do I have stories...god bless John Bon Jovi even though I can't stand his music So was it necessary? Hmmm..
Now, the "New Jersey" title..well, that a sort of "f-you, world!". Kind a like Springsteen's "Greetings from Asbury Park"
Like they said in South Park: "you wouldn't understand, it's a Jersey thing.." See, we tend to have a bad rep everywhere in this country. Go to anywhere other than Jersey and say you're from Jersey and about 80% of the time you'll get this look of disgust and with a sneering disdain you'll hear back: "oh, you're from jersey.."
This is why we tend to be "f-you everyone, we're from JERSEY biotch!" it's our way of fighting back. Jersey pride and all that.

I married a Jersey girl. I keep my damn'd mouth shut.

edg

This man has learned!

 

[Sixpack324]

The noises at night in the Pine Barrens are odd, to say rhe least. Sometimes it sounds like the woods are full of howler monkeys.

I'll bet the scouts trip was in Wharton State Forest. Lots of abandoned houses out there, especially near the Ghost Train.

Whooper-wills.........no?

 

[Relic]

Whooper-wills.........no?

Very often it's foxes. When you hear a fox call echoing through the woods at night it can give you the creeps.

 

[CTC564]

I've experienced the same...I'm pretty sure that they're foxes too

Look up fox calls on YouTube...that's what confirmed it for me

 

[Relic]

We have them now where live. Between foxes and owls at night it sounds like the backround track of an old horror movie!

 

[Sixpack324]

I just listened to fox calls on youtube.....


That's creepy!!!

 

[steamthief]

GREAT find!



It's only fake condescension, don't take my dissing it too seriously. North jersey actually contains some of the most beautiful areas in the entire state. Sussex, Warren, Hunterdon (which is where I almost bought my last house), Morris counties...very nice. However, the stereotypical negative NJ traits have many of their origins from in and around the wider NYC area: Union, Essex, Hudson counties. Each of those counties have their very good points and are home to many good people, however if you want to see what people mean when they talk about NJ being: "full or oil refineries", being "dirty", having "over aggressive drivers", just cross over into NJ from NYC and drive down the Turnpike or Rt1. If this is all you would see of NJ, it may be very easy to believe the stereotypes..

For reference:
http://geology.com/county-map/new-jersey-county-map.gif

Just funnin' you, man. I grew up in northern Bergen County and have relatives in Sussex. I agree with you fully about the stereotypes of Jersey being a dump, though. If you fly into Newark to go to NYC, the drive into the city looks like The Sopranos' opening credits, and the smell certainly isn't Taylor Ham!

Have you never seen Clueless? Fact - everywhere in LA takes 20 minutes. Ah, youre not from LA, are you?

Never seen it. I'm not from LA, but I went to kindergarten in your city of residence and have worked in field sales in SoCal since '97, so the two hours rings truer than twenty minutes.

 

[steamthief]

For those not in the know, here's how the demographics break down in New Jersey:

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[Bassbubble11]

Do poeple in NJ really get there drivers licenses from a cracker jack box?

 

[Sonorous Onus]

Philly's got Rocky, what'chu got?

 

[scorpionldr]

Do poeple in NJ really get there drivers licenses from a cracker jack box?

are NY drivers asleep behind the wheel?

Idk, I took a test for mine, that was over 10 years ago tho...

I'll quote my brother when he once told me "any ******** can take a driver's license test and get licensed and drive like a *****. It takes a little bit more brainpower to figure out how to get where you want safely and efficiently".