The New Jersey hall of fame is Guidolicious!

Of course there is! Just look at the list! Sinatra, Edison, Lombardi, Aldrin. This state kicks ass.

Jack Nicholson. Danny Di Vito. H31N0US. this list goes on.

The New Jersey Hall of Fame. Motto: "People can't help where they're from."

jjorsett: The New Jersey Hall of Fame. Motto: "People can't help where they're from."

Except Einstein wasn't from Jersey... Frankly I'm not even convinced Princeton is a part of New Jersey anyways (compare the town to the rest of the state and you'll understand).

Having lived in Jersey, I cannot understand how so many great people have come from there. The place is full of holes of the ass variety.

Way to piss all over the joke, Farked_in_the_NW :-)

jjorsett: Way to piss all over the joke, Farked_in_the_NW :-)

LOL {hangs head in shame}

Feh. I won't be impressed until they name a turnpike rest stop after him.

KidneyStone: Having lived in Jersey, I cannot understand how so many great people have come from there. The place is full of holes of the ass variety.

Simple- people will go to unbelievable lengths to get out. It's the ultimate motivator. Just think of all the examples of great athletes that have come from deplorable ghetto conditions.

KidneyStone: Having lived in Jersey, I cannot understand how so many great people have come from there. The place is full of holes of the ass variety.

No doubt, but adversity breeds character.

And I think "asshole" is filter safe.

And where is the NJ Hall of Fame going to be built? If they want visitors, it had better NOT be located in Trenton. Or Camden. Or Newark (unless it is located at the airport).

Here's Al at the beach in Atlantic City after losing a fortune in enriched uranium. Nice shoes, Al!

and more....

Bud Abbott comedian, Asbury Park
Charles Addams cartoonist, Westfield
Edwin Aldrin astronaut, Montclair
William Count Basie band leader, Red Bank
Joan Bennett actress, Palisades
Judy Blume author, Elizabeth
Jon Bon Jovi musician, Sayreville
William J. Brennan jurist, Newark
Aaron Burr political leader, Newark
Lloyd H. Conover inventor, Orange
James Fenimore Cooper author, Burlington
David Copperfield magician, Metuchen
Lou Costello comedian, Paterson
Stephen Crane writer, Newark
Helen Gahagan Douglas representative, Boonton
Allen Ginsberg poet, Newark
Savron Glover choreographer, Newark
William Frederick Halsey, Jr. admiral, Elizabeth
Lauryn Hill rapper, South Orange
Donald Fletcher Holmes inventor, Woodbury
Whitney Houston entertainer, Newark
Ice-T rapper, Newark
Alfred Joyce Kilmer poet, New Brunswick
Alfred C. Kinsey zoologist, Hoboken
Ernie Kovacs comedian, Trenton
Dorothea Lange photographer, Hoboken
Jerry Lewis comedian, film director, Newark
Anne Morrow Lindbergh author, Englewood
Norman Mailer author, Long Branch
James W. Marshall discovered gold in California, Hunterdon
Patricia McBride ballerina, Teanick
Eger V. Murphree inventor, Bayonne
Jack Nicholson actor, Neptune City
Dorothy Parker author, West Bend
Zebulon Mongomery Pike explorer, soldier, Lamberton
Joe Piscopo comedian, actor, Passaic
Paul Robeson singer, actor, Princeton
Edward J. Rosinski inventor, Gloucester County
Philip Milton Roth author, Newark
Ruth St. Denis dancer, choreographer, Newark
Antonin Scalia jurist,Trenton
Norman Schwarzkopf army general, Trenton
Frank Sinatra singer, actor, Hoboken
Kevin Spacey actor, South Orange
Bruce Springsteen musician, Freehold
Amos Alonzo Stagg football coach, West Orange
Alfred Stieglitz photographer, Hoboken
Meryl Streep actress, Summit
Albert Payson Terhune journalist, author, Newark
Dave Thomas restaurateur, Atlantic City
William Henry Vanderbilt financier, New Brunswick
Sarah Vaughan singer, Newark
Dionne Warwick actress, singer, East Orange
William Carlos Williams physician, poet, Rutherford
Ray Liotta actor, Newark
Edmund Wilson literary critic, author, Red Bank

Meh, Princeton really isn't that different from my town. More younger people, and cooler architecture, sure, but otherwise they're more similar than not.

But hey, if you want to think of all of the state as being a giant version of Camden or Newark, feel free to be ignorant.

bunny_of_chaos: And where is the NJ Hall of Fame going to be built? If they want visitors, it had better NOT be located in Trenton. Or Camden. Or Newark (unless it is located at the airport).

Seconded. Went to Trenton once while living in S. Jersey to visit where the battle took place, and that place was freaking scary (not as bad as getting lost in Baltimore though). Camden wasn't much better. I never had the opportunity to visit Newark, but the impression I get is I didn't miss much.

Of course there's a Jersey Hall of Fame. It comes out twice a year...




(singing)
/Some of the other states throughout the nation
//May mean a lot to some
///But I'm from New Jersey, brother
////Jersey is like no other
//I'm glad that's where I'm from!

Tanishh: Meh, Princeton really isn't that different from my town. More younger people, and cooler architecture, sure, but otherwise they're more similar than not.

But hey, if you want to think of all of the state as being a giant version of Camden or Newark, feel free to be ignorant.

No, it seemed that N. Jersey is mostly a industrial cess-pool, and S. Jersey was ok, but a bit country. I guess living there for a year wasn't enough time, huh?

Should it really count if they weren't born there?

All of you that think NJ sucks: Good.

Keep thinking that and stay the fark out.

wow that sucks... poor guy

why are they picking on the dead

Where the hell is their parade?

There's been an oversight!

Jersey is to states as NYC is to cities. It's got everything -- industry, farms, universities, prisons, bedroom communities, slums, traffic jams, country roads, swamps, mountains, beach. And it's got everyone -- all the ethnic diversity of NYC packed into a very dense state.

tharealmegaman: All of you that think NJ sucks: Good.

Keep thinking that and stay the fark out.

Keep your guido shirt with the flipped collar on, I assure you we're just passing through. With the windows up and holding our noses.

Yes, there is apparently a New Jersey Hall of Fame.
The college radio station I work at is apparently the official radio station of said HoF, too.
I gave them a tiny little icon down on the left sidebar of the webpage.

/Go Profs!
//pluggies
///slashies

As a native Jerseyite, I would like to take this opportunity to apologize for Joe Piscopo.

theewhiterhino:
Keep your guido shirt with the flipped collar on, I assure you we're just passing through. With the windows up and holding our noses.

Good. Just make sure your NASCAR-sticker-covered '82 Taurus doesn't break down and spill crushed cans of Bud onto our highways, redneck.

/Two can play at that game.
//And both sound ignorant.

tharealmegaman: theewhiterhino:
Keep your guido shirt with the flipped collar on, I assure you we're just passing through. With the windows up and holding our noses.

Good. Just make sure your NASCAR-sticker-covered '82 Taurus doesn't break down and spill crushed cans of Bud onto our highways, redneck.

/Two can play at that game.
//And both sound ignorant.

I was joking. You sound like your inferiority complex is clouding your judgment. And I didn't know Philly was considered redneckm if you're going to go to the stereotypes, as I did. Come on, I even like Springsteen. And I buy liquor in Jersey sometimes.

I think it was the Jew Nerdies Hall of Fame.

/I keed, I keed

GottaJibbooo: [Marty Brodeur] There's been an oversight!

All in good time, I suppose... although he *is* from Montreal. I think it would depend on whether he stays in Jersey after he retires.

theewhiterhino:
I was joking. You sound like your inferiority complex is clouding your judgment. And I didn't know Philly was considered redneckm if you're going to go to the stereotypes, as I did. Come on, I even like Springsteen. And I buy liquor in Jersey sometimes.

Guidos are from Staten Island.

/Has Philly love.
//You're still a redneck.

theewhiterhino: And I didn't know Philly was considered redneck

Oh, god, that's even worse. PA drivers are frigging terrible. Granted, Maryland and Virginia drivers are worse, but still...

I have a very odd curse: no matter where I'm driving, I end up stuck behind a driver from PA, Maryland, or Virginia.

tharealmegaman: Guidos are from Staten Island.

Well, mainly. There are pockets in Jersey, though. Ever been to Kenilworth? It's infested with them.

JerseyTim
Jersey! Stand up!

Aww, hell YEAH!!!

/Makes me homesick & I haven't even left!

fariasrv: theewhiterhino: And I didn't know Philly was considered redneck

Oh, god, that's even worse. PA drivers are frigging terrible. Granted, Maryland and Virginia drivers are worse, but still...

I have a very odd curse: no matter where I'm driving, I end up stuck behind a driver from PA, Maryland, or Virginia.

In other words you drive on the East Coast. And ala George Carlin,
"Anyone driving slower than you is an idiot and anyone driving faster than you is a maniac." I can fell your pain.

theewhiterhino: In other words you drive on the East Coast. And ala George Carlin,
"Anyone driving slower than you is an idiot and anyone driving faster than you is a maniac." I can fell your pain.

Well, yes. But it's happened *everywhere* I've driven. Ontario, Quebec, Illinois, Florida, Alabama, Tennessee... it doesn't matter where.

bunny_of_chaos: And where is the NJ Hall of Fame going to be built? If they want visitors, it had better NOT be located in Trenton. Or Camden. Or Newark (unless it is located at the airport).

Wherever they put it, please keep it away from the shore. We have enough problems with bennies as it is.

/get off my dune grass

New Jersey does happen to have an impressive public school system, and our 8th grade students rank top in the nation with writing scores (which isn't saying much about the other 49 states.)

/New Jersey public school teacher
//teach 8th grade writing :-)

Can't wait to visit, that exit is it?

I really miss Wawa subs now.

Don't they name the Jersey Turnpike rest stops after people?

StacyG: New Jersey does happen to have an impressive public school system, and our 8th grade students rank top in the nation with writing scores (which isn't saying much about the other 49 states.)

/New Jersey public school teacher
//teach 8th grade writing :-)

Spray paint and tattoos don't count as real writing.

/Iowa public school teacher
//yeah, my kids are smarter than your kids

GottaJibbooo: There's been an oversight!

Goddamn right there has.

/nj for life - no matter where I roam, nj is home.

Mike Greenwell: Don't they name the Jersey Turnpike rest stops after people?

Yup. #7A between Trenton and Bordentown is the Pipco International Restorium.

GottaJibbooo: There's been an oversight!

Better not forget Scott Stevens or Ken Daneyko!

/Live in Philly
//Hate the Flyers!

New Jersey does happen to have an impressive public school system, and our 8th grade students rank top in the nation with writing scores (which isn't saying much about the other 49 states.)

My friend and I both graduated from a New Jersey public school, are both currently in separate law schools (2nd tier), and both stood out noticably from the competition in our legal writing classes, which I think is saying something pretty favorable for NJ public school writing programs

/thank you and all NJ public school teachers!