Jersey

I used to write a slew of commentaries in college for WTSR's news program under the name With a Grain of Salt. It was like a band name: completely unimportant, but so long as a name's got to be picked, might as well make it something appropriate.

After college, I had six months of sitting on my butt, and decided to get back into writing these things. Normally they were sent out on e-mail after A. it was read on WTSR or B. published in the Signal, occasionally both A. and B. I wanted a new name for them, but couldn't think of anything. I figured something like a fifties monster movie, but with the word Jersey stuck in there. It Came From Jersey, Son of Jersey, something like that. But no single monster title stuck. So I just called it Jersey, assuming I'd find a good monster title to plug it later. Cut to two years later and I still haven't found one. So it's just Jersey now.

Jersey's the only New ____ state you can identify just by it's second word. "Hey, I'm going to Hampshire for the weekend. I'll drive through York on the way, so do you want any of those Chinese fireworks?" Doesn't sound right. Plus it's the most dumped upon state in the union (both in terms of insults and medical waste) and it's nice to be proud of something loathed by the rest of the country, and to be 100% right.

Tell me how annoying this shade of green is.

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