N.J. has last laugh: No. 5 in livability

Philly Inquirer ^ | Thu, Mar. 09, 2006 | Troy Graham

[OKIEDOC]

The State of Floriduh thanks New Jersey.

If NJ didn't suck big time Floriduh might float South and merge with Cuba and eventually Venezuela thereby forming the true communist heaven Castro and Chavez envision forming.

[Cagey]

Shellsuits are all the rage.

[Clemenza]

As a Brooklyn boy, you might find it interesting that we used to refer to Valley Stream (where I went to elementary school) on Long Island as "Bensonhurst with grass."

[Calpernia]

We volunteered for Rural Medical Tour and lived everywhere from Immacule Florida to Biddiford Maine.

[Blue Jays]

Hi Flip Wilson-

The whole "Joisey" misspelling has become trite and overused. You have some interesting and valid commentary, so please don't lose your message due to overdone humor.

~ Blue Jays ~

[RogueIsland]

I lived there most of my life. Born and raised. They can keep it.

[Binghamton_native]

I know what you mean about the San Andreas thing. Spooky, although I was on a business trip in Ohio for the '89 Bay Area quake. I think almost every area of the country has some possible natural disaster problem. Hurricane Hazel went through upstate NY when I was living there in 1954. But there is something unnerving about an earthquake. I think they are unique in that there is no warning.

[scott says]

Yeah...its great live.Check out this version off of a Dylan site...

http://www.expectingrain.com/

Scroll down to March 8, entry number 7-
decent live recording-

[paul51]

That's good bravado. Unfortunately it won't work to well for a defense when the state decides to exercise it's power over you.

[Huck]

Not to jynx it, but NJ is pretty good when it comes to natural disaster/weather type stuff. We get some flooding and storm surges from the bigger hurricanes that make it this far up the coast, but whatever damage we get pales next to Carolinas, etc. Supposedly there's a fault line, and we do get tiny little quakes that only instruments detect, but we don't, as far as I know, have San Andreas type worries. There's the occasional twister, but nothing like the tornado belt. No problems with wildfires. It's pretty stable.

[Theoden]

I live in Rockaway TWP! It's a great town, but we are about to be shafted with a 5,000 member church being built by a Montclair congregation. Our good buddy Corzine helped bankroll them and their lawyers. Nearly everyone in town is against the church being built all together.

[Calpernia]

LOL! You can't even type with the slang :))

::giggling::

[Schwaeky]

Kentucky is pretty nice. And we don't have a chip on our shoulder...

[Huck]

It's not bravado.

[Huck]

LOL. That's funny, too!

[Huck]

Really? I've never seen one.

[Calpernia]

Yikes! That means this post: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1593088/posts?page=141#141 Wants to see McG in one???

:0

I guess McG would sport one better then me. I don't think scallop shells come in my size ;)

[jjbrouwer]

It's one of those cheapo tracksuits that Italian Americans are often seen wearing in the Sopranos.

[paul51]

It's not bravado

The only other possibility is foolishness. NJ ranks low on the list of states allowing personal liberties. You can pretend it doesn't matter but that only works until it does matter.

[lormand]

Yeah, one of my all time favorite guitarist, SRV is memorialized by a statue on Town Lake here in Austin.

However, I have noticed a trend away from the guitar slingers that this town was once famous for. It probably goes in cycles.