On Tuesday, New Jersey Network (NJN) News aired a report about this year’s New Jersey State Fair. In case you didn’t know the Garden State has a State Fair every year. Like those you would find in the Midwest, there are agricultural contests, live stock, entertainment and of course rides and other amusements. Plus there is a farmer’s market where you can get all sorts of good Jersey Fresh produce and other foods along with plants and other Garden State made products.
The fair, at The Sussex County Fairgrounds, runs through August 10th.
One fun thing about the NJN report is that one of the people they interview is from a neighboring state that some poor misguided souls think is on a par with New Jersey.
Who doesn’t remember those New Jersey and You, Perfect Together tourism commercials from back in the 1980s and early 1990s featuring Governor Tom Kane. This one has a Bill Cosby voice over and of course the governor at the end. Judging from the look of Governor Kane, we’d date this from the 1980s.
Where else would Bill Cosby go for a weeks vacation with his wife?
Yes.
We admit it.
New Jersey has Guidos.
No, we aren’t one, but that should be obvious because of the tasteful graphic layout here and our use of standard English.
We are not proud of them.
We tend to avoid them like the plague.
Belmar Mayor Ken Pringle (pictured, right) did have the right idea calling them as welcome as, oh, Canada Geese” in his July 4th newsletter. He also insulted Staten Islanders and as punishment had to visit Staten Island.
After a bit of a hiatus we are back with this look at the Greatest State Ever. It also appears that our poor misguided competition has also just started back up. We feel sorry for those poor saps who think a state which has “Alabama in the middle” is the Greatest State Ever and hope they will see the light.
To our enemy across the river, it wasn’t you starting back up with the fruit of your obviously deranged mind that got us to return. No, it was this Gawker piece that did it. It proved that people really just have the same stereotypical ideas about New Jersey. It isn’t all The Turnpike, jughandles, strip malls, and Guidos.
All hail Acting Governor Dick Codey, Acting Governor of the Greatest State Ever!
Here is one of the classic early 1990s WNBC “We’re 4 New York” promo composed by Edd Kalehoff. New Jersey gets a brief mention with Jersey Shore at about 55 seconds in, but only after they mention Greenwich in Connecticut. It is still a bit better than what happened with the original 1992 version, which didn’t even mention the Garden State. But the original is truly a classic and you get to see Chuck, Sue, Len, Al Roker, Carol Jenkins, and the late great Ralph Penza, which sort of makes up for the short shrift of New Jersey. This is what happens when almost all of the state’s TV coverage comes from next door! Although we should mention that WNBC does have the best New Jersey coverage of any of the New York stations including the “Yeah we’re a New Jersey station” WWOR.
The scandal with the former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer has nothing on the Jim McGreevey scandal which still has legs even a couple years after it is over. The latest is that Jim McGreevey got a young driver into a ménage à trois with his then wife - something which she deinies. It was enough to make several front pages, some more prominently than others. Political scandals, nobody does them better than New Jersey!
The Garden State has some strange, odd, bad, and/or funny road signs, yet another endearing characteristic. Here are some we have personally found around the state. Click on the photos for more details and locations.
We all know one of the things that makes New Jersey great is the Garden State’s great political scandals from Sharpe James to Jim McGreevey. No other state, with the exception of Louisiana. The New York Times has revealed that the call girl of choice “Kristen” of the Emperors Club “Client #9″ (aka soon to be former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer) was a Jersey girl.
Yes.
After a bit of a hiatus we are back with this look at the Greatest State Ever. It also appears that our 
We all know one of the things that makes New Jersey great is the Garden State’s great political scandals from Sharpe James to Jim McGreevey. No other state, with the exception of Louisiana. 