Dear William, you deserve to live in Jersey. John
William M. Gilroy wrote:
> Ben Ruset wrote:
> >
> > While some may call me "anti-hick" I'm in the process of trying to find a
>job
> > and move to South Jersey -- a place with over a million square miles of pine
> > forest. You can't get much more rural than that, and if you ignore some of
>the
> > inbred residents (forget about West Virginia -- South New Jersey has a
> > higher %
> > of inbreeding than W. VA has) and ignore legends of the "Jersey Devil" than
> > you
> > might find it a nice place to live.
>
> Ben is right about S. Jersey, it is like it is a different planet. Plenty of
> refrigerators and car seats on the porches. As for the inbreeding I have a
> theory. In south Jersey we have a large Air Force base (Fort Dix/McGuire). I
> figure that
> some of the southerners that join the AF, wind up stationed at McGuire. Then
> the
> day comes when they are discharged. At this point they have already spent all
> of
> there money on cheap beer and ammunition and have no money left to buy a bus
> ticket
> home. So they decide to settle in south Jersey. And there is the explanation
> of
> the inbred Southern Jersey residents. Of course I could be wrong.
>
> All of this fails to explain why do "hicks" put refrigerators on the porch
> in the first place?
>
> All of the above intend with humor.
>
> --
> William M. Gilroy
> Lucent Technologies
> Room 4F-434
> 200 Laurel Ave.
> Middletown, NJ 07748-4801
>
> E-mail: wmgilroy@lucent.com
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