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Once again New Jersey was the butt of Saturday Night Live's Weekend Update jokes.
They made jokes regarding anything from the supposed smell of New
Jersey to how our woman are ugly to our supposed lack of intelligence.
They had on "former Governor Spitzer" and "Governor Paterson".
"Paterson" made the comment that having sex with a prostitute without a
condom was like driving through New Jersey in a convertible. They also
made comments on how our women look, which is ironic because the
call-girl that Spitzer was involved with was from New Jersey and he was
willing to spend all that money on her.
Basically it's sort of funny - Saturday Night Live and these late night
talk show hosts and all these other people deserve our pity - not our
outrage. They are so lame, they are recycling the same jokes from the
70's. The thing that has changed regarding the weekend Update episode
this time, versus others - this time people were actually booing the
New Jersey jokes.
There was one joke that I agree with that "Paterson" told - filling in
the tunnels. I'm all for it - 89% of the Manhattan workforce comes from
New jersey - so let's see how much that arrogant city can survive
without the workers to fill their skyscrapers. I can guarantee you, if
we filled in the tunnels, those businesses would come to where the
workers are if the workers could no longer get to their jobs in the
city.
So let's go! Let's fill in the tunnels, cut the bridges, eliminate this
2nd rail tunnel to no where - and then let's see Manhattan on it's
hands and knees begging for forgiveness from New Jersey.
BTW - You also have to realize that New York, for all it's outward
appearance of being self assured is actually very insecure. New York is
like the bully who doesn't like itself - so it has to make fun of
others and pick on them. It's like New Yorkers making fun of the
supposed New Jersey accent - when it's really a New York accent -
particularly Staten Island, Brooklyn and Long Island. But hey, they
need something to make themselves feel good and superior. Hell, they
try to claim they are the sports capital of America - if not in their
arrogant way - the world. Let's make a list here...
New York Teams
Mets
Yankees
Rangers
Knicks
Islanders (who are most likely moving to Kansas City)
(nothern) New Jersey Teams
Giants (New Jersey team who plays in East Rutherford - Corporate headquarters - Meadowlands)
Jets (New Jersey team who plays in East Rutherford - corporate headquarters - Florham Park NJ)
Red Bulls (Play in East Rutherford - new stadium being built in Harrison, across the river from Newark)
Devils
Nets (who are not going to be moving to Brooklyn, but most likely to Newark)
NJ Ironmen - MLIS (major League Indoor Soccer) Playing in Prudential Center
Let's admit it - it must be very hard to be New York having to
constantly convince the world that you are the "THE thing to see" - I
mean just look at their slogan - "I Love NY". Only a state/city with
severe self esteem issues would constantly be asking for everyone to
tell them that they "love" them all the time. Believe me - I've been to
New York many times. I've shown many people around New York - only
about 5% of the the city is forth seeing - it's interesting how that
part is the stuff that only anyone ever knows about. Yankee Stadium is
in a crime invested Bronx. Shea Stadium, which has been replaced by the
new corporately named stadium CitiField is in the middle of no where
right next to LaGuardia Airport in Queens, yet it's the Prudential
Center in Newark that gets bad-mouthed. Of course we all know why the
Prudential center gets bad-mouthed - New York doesn't want people to
realize how much better it is than their antiquated Madison Square
Garden. They don't want people to know how much better it is to see a
show or sporting event in New Jersey than it is in New York. It's like
the Wizard of Oz telling Dorothy - "Don't look behind the curtain".
Well New York doesn't want people to look behind the curtain and see
how much better New Jersey is - so the only thing left for them to do and to
make them feel good about themselves - is to constantly make fun of New
Jersey and New Jerseyans.
New Jersey is the cheap joke, because so many people know nothing about
New Jersey. They fly into Newark and think they have seen New Jersey.
Small minded people - you have to feel sorry for them.
So stand up with pride New Jerseyans - we don't suffer from the self
esteem issues that plague New York. We know who we are. We don't need
to constantly be begging for people to say they love us. We know what
we have, we know we have the 1.1 million acre Pine Barrens, we know
that New Jersey was the crossroads of the American Revolution, we know
that most modern day conveniences from the lighbulb to the barcode were
invented in New Jersey, we know we have 127 miles of beautiful beaches
that New Yorkers seem to have no problem flocking to in the summer, we
know we have the mountains of the northwest and of course we have the
gambling capital of the East Coast - Atlantic City, with hotels and
restaurants that rival anything found anywhere in Manhattan. We also know that that icon they try to arrogantly flaunt as their own, even though it was a gift to AMERICA, not New York, is actually standing in New JERSEY waters. Yes believe it or not - the Statue of Liberty stands in New Jersey waters just a few feet off our coast in Jersey City, NOT New York City.
Isn't it funny how Saturday Night Live was making fun of our
intelligence, when Carl Sagan came from New Jersey, Thomas Edison's
laboratory was in New Jersey and Einstein lived in Princeton?
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When will Saturday Night Live stop telling the lame New Jersey jokes?
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