Greatest State Ever

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!