New Jersey
From Wiki Gonzalez
New Jersey is a state of mind, much like New York except that Billy Joel never sang about it.
Just today, I realized that if I ran the Spanish language, "New Jersey" would be pronounced "Nuevo Heresy."
[edit] New Jersey sports
New Jersey has three affiliated minor league teams, five independent professional teams, the Scarlet Knights of Rutgers University, the Meadowlands Sports Complex (hosting 4 NYC-area major sports teams), a lot of beachfront, and a few Sopranos. (A few altos, tenors, and basses, too.)
Four Hall of Fame outfielders were born in New Jersey: Larry Doby (the American League's first African-American player), Goose Goslin, Billy Hamilton, and Joe Medwick. One well-known non-Hall of Fame pitcher was born in New Jersey: Al Leiter.
Also, that legendary 100 MPH burner Frank MacCormack (who once gave the wee-wee trembling Repoz...a crackling 0 fer 4-four strikeout day at Kane Stadium in stenchy Secaucus!)...and MacCormack's 80 year-old dad is now running for mayor of Secaucus, NJ!
Other sports personages:
[edit] New Jersey culture
New Jersey is home to the New Jersey Turnpike, which allows fans to get to a day game in New York and a night game in Philadelphia, most of the time. New Jersey has the highest population density of any of the 50 states.
New Jersey is also home to the essential Weird NJ Magazine, the seminal punk haven Maxwell's, the blandsvilliness of The Winston Towers now standing where the Palisades Amusement Park once thrived.
Other cultural landmarks:
- Chiller Theatre store, magazine and horror expo...founded by the infamous Kevin Clement. It should be noted that the Repoz clan has some bizarro ties with the Clement family.
- The Diving Horses of the Steel Pier
- Camden Drive-In Theater... First in the country
- White Manna... the pride of Hackensack
- Callahan's Hot Dogs... home of the outrageous air-filled Wet Dicks!
- Rutt's Hut... deep-fried Rippers for sale
- Hot Dog Johnny's... Buttzville's Ground Zero for dogs, birch beer, and buttermilk
- Jersey tomatoes
- Perona Farms... Sussex County's source for smoked salmon
- Wild West City
- The Jersey Devil
- Midgetville
- Haunted Mansion at Long Branch ... "It's waiting for you!"
- Seaside Heights
- Matawan man-eating shark ... inspiration for Jaws
- Hoboken
- Hamilton/Burr duel
- 1967 Glassboro Summit Conference
- Bell Labs
- Campbell Soup Company
- The Black Tom Explosion
- Grovers Mill "War of the Worlds"
- The Lindbergh Kidnapping
- The Hindenburg Disaster
- Trenton State Prison
- WFMU (only the greatest free-form radio station in the union!)
- WRSU (only the worst free-form radio station in the union!)
[edit] Famous New Jerseyites
Famous New Jerseyites include Bruce Springsteen and Repoz. (It has been said that most of the Boss's songs are directly or indirectly about New Jersey...even though Repoz dislikes being referred to as "The Boss.") Depending on his mood and with whom he is talking, Bernal Diaz will occasionally admit he grew up in the Garden State.
Some others:
- The Feelies
- The Misfits
- The Bongos
- Frank Sinatra
- Sarah Vaughn
- Count Basie
- Kool & The Gang
- My Chemical Romance (everyone except their current drummer)
- Anything Box
- The Thomas Trantino Murder Case
- Harold "Kayo" Konigsberg...the legendary 79-year-old Mafia hitman from Bayonne...due to be released from prison in 2006.
- Abner "Longy" Zwillman
- Tony "Tony Pro" Provenzano
- The DeCavalcante Family
- Frank "I Am The Law!" Hague
- Richard "Iceman" Kuklinski...(Repoz lived down the block from the "Iceman" and picked up many a useful tip!)...adeadumb: "Iceman" Kuklinski died in Trenton State Prison on March 7, 2006 after developing heart, lung and kidney problems along with dementia. (Reportedly Repoz mourned his passing by putting an M-80 in a stray cat's anal cavity and waving to a Mister Softee truck)
- Joseph "The Shoemaker" Kallinger (Sportswriter Bob Klapisch grew up only a few houses away from the Kallinger murder scene...Kallinger was always bad with directions.)
- The John List Murders
- Howard Unruh - A picture of insanity
- Alfred Kinsey
- Uncle Floyd
- Cpl. Randolph Agarn
- Henry Krajewski Delirious pig farmer from stench encrusted Secaucus that ran for President in '52 and '56. (PHEW!)
- The Amazing Kreskin
- Dorothy Parker
- Norman Mailer
- Jonathan Maslow
- Christopher Durang
- Ernie Kovacs
- Anthony Bourdain
- Allen Ginsberg
- Jerry Lewis
- Abbott & Costello
- Jack Nicholson
- Zygi Wilf
- Joe Piscopo
- Tony Reali
- Bob Dunn
- Zach Braff
- Gary "Numa Numa" Brolsma
- Mark "Roman" Polansky
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