- Author: Thomas
- Published: Aug 13th, 2011
- Category: You Might Be Humor List
- Comments: None
Tags: new jersey
- you’ve been seriously injured at Action Park.
- you know that the only people who call it “Joisey” are from New York(usually The Bronx)or Texas.
- you don’t think of citrus when people mention “The Oranges.”
- you know that it’s called “Great Adventure,” not “Six Flags.”
- you’ve ordered a hard roll with butter for breakfast.
- you’ve known the way to Seaside Heights since you were seven.
- you’ve eaten at a diner, when you were stoned or drunk, at 3 am.
- whenever you park, there’s a Camaro within three spots of you.
- you remember that the “Two Guys” were from Harrison.
- you know that the state isn’t one big oil refinery.
- at least three people in your family still love Bruce Springsteen, and you know what town Jon Bon Jovi is from.
- you know what a “jug handle” is.
- you know that a WaWa is a convenience store.
- you know that the state isn’t all farmland.
- you know that it isnt “The Beach” in New Jersey – it’s the shore, and you know that the road to the shore is “The Parkway” not “The Garden State Highway.”
- you know that “Piney” isn’t referring to a tree.
- even your school cafeteria made good Italian subs, and, you call it a “sub” not a “submarine sandwich” or worse yet, a “hoagie” or a “hero.”
- you remember the song from the Palisades Park commercials.
- you know how to properly negotiate a Circle.
- you knew that the last question had to do with driving.
- you know that “Acme” is an actual store, not just a Warner Bros. creation.
- you know that this is the only “New…” state that doesn’t require “New” to identify it (like, try …Mexico, …York, …Hampshire (doesn’t work, does it?).
- you only go to New York City for day trips, and you only call it “The City.”
- you consider a corned beef sandwich with lettuce and mayo a sacrilege.
- in the 80′s you wore your hair REALLY high. (wait, didn’t everybody??)
- you don’t think “What exit” (do you live near?) is very funny.
- you know that the real first “strip shopping center” in the country is Route 22.
- you know that people from 609 area code are “a little different.”
- you know that no respectable New Jerseyan goes to Princeton – that’s for out-of-staters.
- the Jets-Giants game has started fights at your school or local bar.
- you live within 20 minutes of at least three different malls.
- you can see the Manhattan skyline from some part of your town.
- you refer to all highways and interstates by their numbers.
- every year, you had at least one kid in your class named Tony.
- you know where every “clip” shown in the Sopranos opening credits is.
- you’ve gotten on the wrong highway trying to get out of Willowbrook Mall.
- you’ve eaten a Boardwalk cheesesteak with vinegar fries.
- you have a favorite Atlantic City casino.
- you start planning for Memorial Day weekend in February.
- you’ve never pumped your own gas. (Chris) Took me forever to get this one…
- you know how to navigate a circle while talking on a cell phone and smoking a Marlboro w/o using blinkers. (Mandie)
- every 3 miles you drive there is a deserted mall.
- most really nice homes have a gas station and a junk yard next door to them.
- you never tell the truth about what state you’re from when strangers ask you in a chatroom.
- most of your cash is in dimes and quarters.
- even after moving to California, you still carry a separate change purse full of quarters and dimes for tolls. (Diane)
- you learned to drive by backing out of your driveway onto a 50 MPH road. (visitor submission)
- you have the shop install lumps and dents into your fenders so others will know that you have the strength in convinction to change lanes. (visitor submission)
- you take kick-boxing lessons hoping someone will tell you the two weeks in
New Jersey prize joke. (visitor submission)
- you know where highway 9 is from that Bruce Springsteen song.
- you have ever shopped at Wawa.
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- Author: Thomas
- Published: Jul 6th, 2011
- Category: You Might Be Humor List
- Comments: None
Tags: coworkers
- you reply to all on e-mail announcements about the death of a co-worker’s family member with something like, “It’s about time.”
- you publicly insist that your employer recognize your chronic body odor as a disability.
- you enthusiastically pleasure yourself whenever someone hands you a memo.
- you give yourself a really cool nickname and refuse to answer to anything else. The nickname should always include your nationality. Examples: The Italian Stallion or The Canadian Bacon.
- you bring in all of your GI Joe action figures from your childhood days. At your desk, stage full scale battles complete with pyrotechnics. Demand paid time off to bury your dead.
- you announce your arrival every morning in a booming voice. Example: “The Haitian Sensation is here!!!”
- you bring in chittlins everyday for lunch. Be sure to warm them in the microwave so the fine aroma of pig intestine wafts through the building.
- you are the only one with enough nerve to ask the office hermaphrodite what it is, a man or a woman.
- you approach people randomly and ask them to smell your index finger.
- you drive a motor scooter to work wearing a leather jacket with “Bad to the Bone” embroidered on the back.
- you refuse to zip your fly because your “little friend” is claustrophobic.
- you wash your hands in the urinal.
- you discard any roadkill from your morning commute in your cubicle’s waste basket.
- you ask your black coworkers why their people are always trying to keep the white man down.
- you openly discuss your menstrual cycle. If someone points out the fact that you’re a man, bring them up on sexual harassment charges.
- you push your desk away from any direct sunlight because “it burns so bad.”
- you wear all black and sacrifice small animals to the paper shredder gods.
- you when in a crowded bathroom, stare directly at the person using the next urinal. If he turns to look at you, brand him a homosexual and threaten to tell his children.
- you wear a rain bonnet because you’ve never trusted the filthy bastards that design fire sprinklers.
- you walk up to peoples’ desks, look at pictures of their children and ask them who the hell they think they are, procreating.
- you answer the phone, “I am the angel of the death. The hour of reckoning is upon us. How may I help you?”
- you fall asleep at your desk. Wake up screaming, “GOOSE, I CAN’T REACH THE EJECTION HANDLE!!! EJECT, EJECT, EJECT!!!”
- you demand special treatment because you suffer from post traumatic stress disorder as a result of years of measuring fish while serving in the coast guard.
- you enter the company day care center, look at the children and announce, “One of your parent’s was just killed in a horrible accident.” Turn around and leave.
- turn your cubicle into a fort. Install a secret entrance and post a “Girls Have Cooties” sign.
- ask a coworker if you can borrow their left shoe.
- start a nasty rumor about your boss having an affair with the janitor just to see how much the story changes by the time it gets back to you.
- during meetings, flatulate loudly, fan it toward your coworkers and ask them to guess what you had for breakfast.
- you set up Star Wars action figures around your desk and sit around making Darth Vader breathing noises… Occasionally, you mumble something about crushing the rebellion and take out a group of action figures with a toy light saber.
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Blog Traffic Exchange
- Author: Thomas
- Published: Jan 28th, 2011
- Category: You Might Be Humor List
- Comments: None
Tags: star trek, trekkie
you’ve been to KLI.org .
…you created the KLI.org site .
…you’ve submitted corrections to KLI.org .
you actually know that the prime directive isn’t “to boldly go where no man has gone before” and what it actually is.
you know who Barkeley is and what happened to him.
you’re certain that the shooting star you just saw was an exploding borg cube.
you and any of your friends have a discussion over which is more correct “Trekkies or Trekkers.”
you actually saw the movie “Trekkies” in the theater.
…or boycotted the movie theater showing it.
you’ve built a life size replica of Captain Pike’s wheel chair.
you’ve ever pulled the legs of your hamster because you always wanted a tribble.
Nurse Chapel / Deanna Troi / Beverly Crusher / Dax is your Dream Woman.
…if you asked “which one?” to the last one.
…if you came name more than 10 females that I missed.
you know who Ashley Judd is, because of her appearance on The Next Generation.
you can name the bridge crew for the original series.
you can name the members of each bridge crew and their rank for the Next Generation series.
you can name the bridge crew, their rank, and their species for Voyager.
you know the different classes of starships.
you also know the top warp speed, inertial damper tolerances, and standard weaponry of each class.
you own a Star Fleet manual…
you read The Physics of Star Trek and came up with counter arguments to the mentions of General Relativity as it applies to Star Trek.
you’ve had more Gene Roddenberry sightings than the Enquirer has had Elvis sightings.
you’ve ever worn a pair of Vulcan Ears..
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- Author: Thomas
- Published: Jan 5th, 2011
- Category: You Might Be Humor List
- Comments: None
Tags: facebook, social media
- You standard response to any emergency is to post its occurrence as your status, then deal with the emergency.
- …bonus points if you solicit advice for handling the emergency via Facebook.
- You take every “What kind of …. are you?” quiz possible, including the “What kind of chia pet are you??” quiz. (I’m hope that I’m making that one up.)
- You update statuses like a misguided Twitter addict.
- You spam all of your friends with app requests so that you can unlock the next level of super pokes.
- You keep answering 21 questions about your friends in a paranoid attempt to find out who thinks you would fart in public.
- You spend more time playing Farmville than most people spend awake.
- You insist on posting inappropriate things that your mom, who is your Facebook friend, feels compelled to respond to.
- You’ve friended your disgruntled exes and regularly start awkward passive-aggressive rants about them.
- You participate in every “post this as your status if” trend as if there was some “breaking the chain letter” curse for not doing so.
- “25 things about me” was way too little information about yourself, so you fill out more lists that require you to tag your friends in your troubling revelations, making them collateral damage.
- You rant about how stupid people are in your status, misspelling every other word.
- You seem to think that every one of your “friends” would be interested in joining your fringe political movement, and attempt to persuade by derision of those too meek to stand up and join you.
- You regularly feel compelled to post things that reveal too much information about things no one wants to know about. (Hint: If it came out of your body unexpectedly or happened when you were at least half-naked, the rest of us probably don’t want to know.)
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