New Jersey license plates bear the motto "The Garden State." What are some other options?
(a) "Shut Up."
(b) "Fuck You."
(c) "Oh, Like Everyone in North Dakota Is Thin."
(d) "Land of 1,000 Filthy Turnpike Rest Rooms."
(e) "For $1,500, You Can Own Camden."
The above comes from "New Jersey: The Quiz" a humor column by Paul Rudnick in a recent edition of The New Yorker.
There are other quiz questions, and Rudnick seems to have hit all the highlights: Trenton, Secaucus, "Jersey Shore," Teresa Giudice of "Real Housewives," "The Sopranos," Chris Christie's weight, Elizabeth, corrupt policemen.
Once you have spent a few years in New Jersey, as I have, you get used to all this and more -- slimy politicians, insane drivers on the Parkway and Turnpike, Newark, potholes, ugly diners with terrible food. It never ends. But, honestly there are many good people in New Jersey and even pleasant places to visit.
It's not easy living in a joke state.
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