Got this email from my friend Doug.
If you've ever lived in Jersey ...you'll appreciate this!!! If you have seen this before, sorry but here it is again.
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> New Jersey is a peninsula.
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> Highlands, New Jersey has the highest elevation along the entire eastern >seaboard, from Maine to Florida.
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> New Jersey is the only state where all of its counties are classified as >metropolitan areas.
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> New Jersey has more race horses than Kentucky.
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> New Jersey has more Cubans in Union City (1 sq mi.) than Havana, Cuba .
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> New Jersey has the densest system of highways and railroads in the US .
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> New Jersey has the highest cost of living.
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> New Jersey has the highest cost of auto insurance.
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> New Jersey has the highest property taxes in the nation.
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> New Jersey has the most diners in the world and is sometimes referred to >as the "Diner Capital of the World."
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> New Jersey is home to the original Mystery Pork Parts Club (no,not
> Spam): Taylor Ham or Pork Roll.
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> Home to the less mysterious but the best Italian hot dogs and Italian >sausage w/peppers and onions.
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> North Jersey has the most shopping malls in one area in the world, with >seven major shopping malls in a 25 square mile radius.
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> New Jersey is home to the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island .
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> The Passaic River was the site of the first submarine ride by inventor >John P. Holland.
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> 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.
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> New Jersey has the most stringent testing along our coastline for water >quality control than any other seaboard state in the entire country.
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> New Jersey is a leading technology & industrial state and is the largest >chemical producing state in the nation when you include pharmaceuticals.
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> Jersey tomatoes are known the world over as being the best you can buy.
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> New Jersey is also the world leader in blueberry and cranberry
> production (and here you thought Massachusetts ?)
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> Here's to New Jersey - the toast of the country! In 1642, the first >brewery in America , opened in Hoboken .
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> New Jersey rocks!
> The famous Les Paul invented the first solid body electric guitar in >Mahwah, in 1940.
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> 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.
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> New Jersey is home to one of the nation's busiest airports (in Newark ), >Liberty International.
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> George Washington slept here. Several important Revolutionary War battles >were fought on New Jersey soil, led by General George Washington.
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> The light bulb, phonograph (record player), and motion picture projector, >were invented by Thomas Edison in his Menlo Park , NJ , laboratory.
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> We also boast the first town ever lit by incandescent bulbs.
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> The first phonograph records were made in Camden , NJ (RCA).
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> The first seaplane was built in Keyport ,NJ and the first airmail (to >Chicago) was started from Keyport, NJ.
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> New Jersey was 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.
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> Atlantic City has the longest boardwalk in the world, not to mention salt >water taffy.
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> New Jersey has the largest petroleum containment area outside of the >Middle East countries. Maybe that explains our gas prices.
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> The first Indian reservation was in NJ, in the Watchung Mountains.
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> New Jersey has the tallest water-tower in the world. (Union,NJ!!)
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> New Jersey had the first medical center, in Jersey City
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> The Pulaski SkyWay, from Jersey City to Newark, was the first skyway >highway.
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> NJ built the first tunnel under a river, the Hudson (Holland Tunnel).
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> The first baseball game was played in Hoboken , NJ , which is also the >birthplace of Frank Sinatra.
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> The first intercollegiate football game was played in New Brunswick in >1889 (Rutgers College played Princeton).
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> The first drive-in movie theater was opened in Camden , NJ , (but
> they're all gone now!).
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> New Jersey is home to both of " NEW YORK 'S" pro football teams!
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> The first radio station and broadcast was in Paterson , NJ .
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> The first FM radio broadcast was made from Alpine, NJ, by Maj. Thomas >Armstrong.
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> 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, Joe DePasquale, >Robert Blake, John Forsythe, Meryl Streep, Loretta Swit, Norm an 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, Bob Reyers, >Paul Robeson, Ernie Kovacs, Joseph Macchia, Kelly Ripa, and, of course, >Francis Albert Sinatra
> and "Uncle Floyd" Vivino.
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> The Great Falls in Paterson , on the Passaic River , is the 2nd highest >waterfall on the East Coast of the US .
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> You know you're from Jersey when . . .
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> You don't think of fruit when people mention "The Oranges."
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> You know that it's called Great Adventure, not Six Flags.
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> You know that the state isn't one big oil refinery.
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> You know what a "jug handle" is.
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> You know that WaWa is a convenience store.
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> You know that the state isn't all farmland, but still has pl enty.
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> You know that there are no "beaches" in New Jersey --there's the >shore--and you don't go "to the shore," you go "down the shore." And when >you are there, you're not "at the shore"; you are "down the shore."
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> You know how to properly negotiate a circle, and you knew that the last >sentence had to do with driving.
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> You know that this is the only "New" state that doesn't require "New"
> to identify it (try: Mexico, York, Hampshire - doesn't work, does it?).
> You know that a " White Castle " is BOTH a fast food chain AND a fast >food sandwich.
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> You don't think "What exit?" as a location is very funny.
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> You know that people from the 609 area code are "a little different."
> Yes they are!
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> You live within 30 minutes of at least three different malls.
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> You refer to all highways and interstates by their numbers.
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> Every year you have at least one kid in your class named Tony.
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> You've gotten on the wrong highway trying to get out of the mall.
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> You know that people from North Jersey go to Seaside Heights , and people >from Central Jersey go to Be lmar, and people from South Jersey go to >Wildwood.
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> You weren't raised in New Jersey --you were raised in either North >Jersey, Central Jersey or South Jersey .
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> You don't consider Newark or Camden to actually be part of the state.
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> You remember the stores Korvette's, Two Guys, Rickel's, Channel, >Bamberger's and Orbach's.
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> You've had a boardwalk cheese steak and vinegar fries.
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> You start planning for Memorial Day weekend in February.
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> And finally . . .
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> You've NEVER, NEVER NEVER, EVER
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> pumped your own gas.
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