Overheard

As our tipster notes, today is the first of two Days on Campus, and Columbia’s crawling with prefrosh and their parents. Here’s a choice quote from the activities fair held earlier today in Lerner:

Columbia Student to a prospective student, while convincing him to sign up for a student group: So, where are you from?

Prospective Student: New Jersey.

Columbia Student: All right, dirty Jerz!

Prospective Student: Haha… yeah.

His mom, as the prospective student cringes: Actually, we’re from one of the most desirable counties in the nation.

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April 6, 2008 @ 3:45 pm

Tags: class of 2012, overheard

Oy Vey says:

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Mommy needs to get a grip. And go home.
so... says:

0 0 April 6, 2008 @ 3:51 pm

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was she talking about Bergen County or Morris County?
new jersey says:

0 0 April 6, 2008 @ 3:53 pm

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yay bergen all the way!
wow says:

0 0 April 6, 2008 @ 3:59 pm

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ivy league parents from jersey can be elitist, film at 11
question says:

0 0 April 6, 2008 @ 3:59 pm

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I seriously don't understand what's up with Columbia students making fun of New Jersey. Is this a New York phenomena? Or maybe just a stupid one?
- nah says:
  
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  i grew up without many jersey or new york people around at all, people still make fun of jersey.
  
  FUCK YO GARDEN STATE
nutmegger says:

0 0 April 6, 2008 @ 4:06 pm

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everyone makes fun of new jersey
Jersey resident says:

0 0 April 6, 2008 @ 4:08 pm

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No, most young New Jerseyans (at least those from south Jersey like myself) poke fun at the "Jerz." There's something amusing/disturbing when you still see Confederate flags on pick-up trucks north of the Mason-Dixon.

Obviously, those critical New Jerseyans have different reasons for invoking the "Dirty Jerzz," but it is certainly not something unique to expatriate New Jersyans at Columbia/in New York.
student says:

0 0 April 6, 2008 @ 4:10 pm

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... oh my goodness.
the garden state says:

0 0 April 6, 2008 @ 4:21 pm

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is most definitely not new york. its a whole different world. you got rich douchebaggy suburbs, the ghettos of newark, trenton and camden. the former mafia run jersey city and hoboken which are now nicely gentrified. the meadowlands. then the shore. seaside heights, ocean city, atlantic city, cape may. those places are sights unto themselves. and then south jersey which might as well be mars.

in conclusion, new jersey is a land of contrast.
let's be clear says:

0 0 April 6, 2008 @ 4:47 pm

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For all intents and purposes, South Jersey is an entirely different state than North Jersey, as demonstrated by the fact that in South Jersey the tri-state area is NJ, PA, DE, and in North Jersey the tri-state area is NJ, NY, CT.

That people make fun of NJ is 100% the fault of North Jerseyans and Newark Airport. While South Jersey is the reason for the Garden State nickname, the miles of oil refineries conveniently located right outside the only international airport in the state have caused North Jersey's poor environmental and aesthetic conditions to lead the rest of the US who fly into or out of Newark to believe that all of NJ sucks.

Hell yes South Jersey. Middle Jersey is okay too.
- ummm says:
  
  0 0 April 7, 2008 @ 4:55 pm
  
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  north jersey and south jersey are entirely different states, but the humor is in fact derived by the classness/ dirtiness of South Jersey and its shore.
  
  North Jersey all the way.
  - From South Jersey says:
    
    0 0 April 7, 2008 @ 8:22 pm
    
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    Says the fool who thinks "classness" is a word.
i ldo ove says:

0 0 April 6, 2008 @ 5:18 pm

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sojo. jerz is best south of the fort-dixon line.
SAT much? says:

0 0 April 6, 2008 @ 5:26 pm

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NJ:NYS :: SI:NYC
Averice Nacho says:

0 0 April 6, 2008 @ 5:42 pm

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mmmm

http://www.johnsonspopcorn.com/index.asp
fail!@! says:

0 0 April 6, 2008 @ 5:51 pm

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analogy doesn't work. SI is in NYC, NJ is not in NYS.
- i guess says:
  
  0 0 April 6, 2008 @ 5:55 pm
  
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  I have to spell it out since you're not from around here.
  SI is NYC's garbage dump; NJ is NYS's garbage dump. Also, if you lived around here, you would know that SI isn't *really* part of NYC ;).
  There goes your 1600...
  - mmm says:
    
    0 0 April 6, 2008 @ 6:04 pm
    
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    Not quite right. North Jersey is NYC's suburb, Central Jersey is New York State's and NYC's garbage dump, and South Jersey is just strange.
  - uhh... says:
    
    0 0 April 6, 2008 @ 7:11 pm
    
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    for these prospies (and current freshmen), the SAT was out of 2400, and didnt have analogies. so you cant blame 'em.
who? says:

0 0 April 6, 2008 @ 5:59 pm

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the fuck cares? nobody gives a fuck about America's shit stain (aka new jersey)
North Jersey says:

0 0 April 6, 2008 @ 6:00 pm

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north jersey and newark are the shit
Tommy Cheeseballs says:

0 0 April 6, 2008 @ 6:11 pm

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you guys are all bennys. seaside till i die.
The Dink says:

0 0 April 6, 2008 @ 7:23 pm

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New Jersey's Pine Barrens are beautiful and entirely unique in the world. Its impressive that the most densely populated us state has held onto this treasure. My home state, Illinois, has destroyed all its unique ecology...the great American prairie that once boasted wolves, grizzlies, cougars, and pronghorn... Not to
mention sweet timber rattlesnakes. Now its corn and soybeans.
The Dink says:

0 0 April 6, 2008 @ 7:42 pm

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But Illinois still rocks jersey any day of the week. If I was from southern Illinois I'd say its because Illinois is SO ILL...but I'm not, so I'll just say that we bring the illinoize. Chi-town for life. And for pizza.

Fukudome!!!!!!
lolol says:

0 0 April 6, 2008 @ 7:54 pm

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that's pretty funny
why is there says:

0 0 April 6, 2008 @ 8:27 pm

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so much security in jersey?

It's the Guard-in state!
nooo says:

0 0 April 6, 2008 @ 8:47 pm

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you're disgusting
Listener says:

0 0 April 6, 2008 @ 8:54 pm

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OVERHEARD IN JOHN JAY

Mother: "Tell me, do the custodial staff vacuum the students' rooms?"
Columbia student says:

0 0 April 6, 2008 @ 10:22 pm

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NJ is the #2 richest state in the U.S. http://www.designnewhaven.com/2008/03/connecticut-again-nations-richest-state.html
Anonymous says:

0 0 April 7, 2008 @ 12:32 am

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first of all, there is no middle jersey.

second, the mason dixon line extends through south jersey, and there are a lot of hicks who rep the confederate pride.

south jersey and north jersey should split across the trenton/princeton area.

who the fk says bennys? they are shoobies.

though its good to get out of jersey, that place and its government is going to hell in a handbasket
- Southernor says:
  
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  The mason dixon line does not extend through south jersey. It is on the Maryland/Penn border, then actually goes south around the southern tip of delaware.
  
  Of course, where I'm from, we consider Interstate-10 to be the real Mason Dixon line. We still call Arkansas, Missouri, Tenn, Kentucky, and the northern half of all the gulf states "yankees".
  - EAL says:
    
    0 0 April 7, 2008 @ 7:23 am
    
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    You've got to be kidding. Clearly Virginia and the Carolinas are part of the South as well, both geographically and culturally. If you excluded everything north of I-10, you'd be cutting out all of Georgia and most of Mississippi. If anything I-10 should be used as a "second Mason-Dixon line," since South Florida is really no longer a Southern state; neither, for that matter is South Texas. Though the fabled Line itself should be moved further south, since Northern Virginia and most of Maryland is so full of northern transplants it could hardly be called "Southern" today. The same could be said of most of North Carolina's Research Triangle.
    
    Virginia FTW!
    - meh says:
      
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      well, being 100% cajun, we don't like to associate with northern louisianians (non French-speaking Protestants). If it snows where you live more than once every 10 years, you're a yankee, plain and simple. That is what I was taught.
you don't know squat says:

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There most certainly is a Central Jersey. Somerset, Middlesex, Monmouth, Ocean, etc. All 1 to 1.5 hours away from New York Shitty. The Jersey jokes are tired and old. If only you could see how many of your fellow city residents clog up the state on the weekends and make mass transit a nightmare...
Anonymous says:

0 0 August 17, 2008 @ 6:47 pm

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I went to South Jersey once. Brad Paisley was playing and there were mullets everywhere. It was scary.

-Former Bergen County resident

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