Uranus has entered the discussion.

Sounds like the makings for a wacky sitcom in which you wear a lot of make up to look older, and play yourself and your own grandfather?

Zero 7 - Destiny

> his neighbor’s 7 hives that are using the pool.

Do you live in an alternate universe where EVERYBODY has bees?

"meats"

If I remember properly, each gallon of gasoline you burn in your car puts 7 pounds of CO2 in the air, so yes.

I think Kurt Russell in Big Trouble in Little China is an earlier example, in it he is a truck driver.

As a longshoreman? Most of the ones I am familiar with are decidedly more white collar than that.

Only in NJ could someone be a longshoreman AND an assemblyman.

It is sarcasm, should probably have an /s. I never cease to be amazed how often in NJ I am in a slowdown or traffic jam, and it is rubberneckers looking at a person change a tire, often in the opposite lane! Meaning there is not even a good reason to slow down for safety. There is a full blown Jersey barrier between them and the tire changer. In my dreams, every driver would try to give room to people on the side of the road, and keep traffic moving.

There may be several people in those cars who have never seen someone change a tire before.

And one of the most dangerous inter-intersections imaginable.

Showing our deep abiding love for jug handles and Jersey barriers, and high car insurance rates.

". . . but it probably paid for this bus."

You think that having hundreds and hundreds of places where lawyers and union negotiators meet rather than one might not make for more opportunities for corruption? I am not talking about the water, housing and sewer authorities, all of which also have multiple contracts. NJ politics is set up for ample opportunities for corruption. At one point in the last few decades, NJ had no city over 100,000 people that did NOT have a mayor either indicted or convicted in the previous decade. That does not happen in other states. Don't take my word for it: https://www.nj.com/politics/2017/03/mayors_under_indictment_a_long_jersey_tradition.html

In other states, when the corruption gets too out of hand, they centralize. If you want to steal in New York State, you go to Albany. Here, you don't have to go to Trenton to get your cousin the snow plowing contract, or get your son on the police force when you are the mayor of the town. All this local rule makes so many places for corruption, we are buried in it.

Union contracts. One contract for all the cops, one for all the teachers in NYC. One group of negotiators. In Bergen county, there are at least 140 different contracts for the same thing. 140 groups of lawyers and negotiators, all of whom have to be paid every 3 years. That is one tiny facet of the differences between the systems.

>Why? How?

Here, because of so much local rule. NYC has 1 school district and 1 police system, for 1 million students and 9 million citizens. Bergen county has 74 school districts and 72 police forces for 1 million residents. That is 70 times the number of contracts, negotiations, purchasing dept etc. Each one is a different opportunity to steal. If you just look at the cost of maintaining 70 police chiefs and school superintendents, you can start to see the scale of waste. If you follow the news whenever some local town official goes down for using town services, that is the sort of thing that is really common here and unlikely in other places.

I have lived in Chicago, and in Albany, and NJ is by far the most corrupt place I have ever been. In each of those places there are very particular places to steal, and ways to do it. In Bergen county there are 70 towns, and 74 school districts and some similar number of police agencies. Each one, plus every public service, is a different opportunity for someone to steal. Whether it is a town worker in Ridgewood stealing $400,000 in quarters from parking meters or the newly elected mayor of Hoboken taking $2500 in a paper bag from a stranger in a diner, NJ corruption is stunning in how common it is, for such small amounts. That the mayor of Jersey city for over 100 years has always served time in prison is just one small bite out of the huge smorgasbord of NJ corruption.

>Me, Myself and Irene

They used Pete Yorn for this one, who is also a great musician.

They used Pete Yorn, who is also a great musician.

didn't they always use Todd Rundgren as a musical supervisor?

This happened to me with No Country for Old Men. I was so busy watching LLewelyn and the sherriff I did not really pay attention to Anton Chigurgh, who is really the, for lack of a better word, 'heart' of the movie.

CORT used furniture showroom on rt 17, everything is assembled, and delivery is a flat rate. If you want classy vintage stuff at pretty good prices, Brownstone Liquidators has a warehouse near there too. I have bought stuff from both, it has always been excellent.

If you want a pet, buy in Bogert Ranch Estates.

The Wreck of the Edmund FItzgerald - Gordon Lightfoot