The five tropes of Jezebel:

As a New Jersey native, I let them perpetuate the stereotype because it helps keep the rabble out.

Whatever happened to Neve Campbell? Girl was in EVERY movie in the late 90s.

I have a great idea: ban everyone from receiving any healthcare, ever. That'd put the kibosh on spiraling healthcare costs, sho nuff.

"Don't you understand? You're not making Christianity better. You're just making rock and roll worse!"

In NJ, "The City" means New York. But it seems like my parent's generation referred to New York as "The Town," as in, "We're going into town tonight."

I think that's a Southern thing. I've noticed it elsewhere in the South as well.

I've always heard that only people from the New York metro area say "on line." I've said "on line" my whole life, and occasionally will get called out on it.

Thank you for calling it "the" 405.

When I was like 8 years old, I somehow got it into my head that you could make whatever you were about to say inoffensive by starting with "No offense, but..."

Right. Right! And laying down is MUCH more comfortable than sitting in a cramped airplane seat. So when you look at it that way, those slaves actually had it BETTER than we did.

Well, "vuvuzula" sounds an awful lot like "vulva," and everyone knows vulvae spread disease too.

@Ceiling Cat: I used to live not far from Niceville. Smoked mullet is delicious.

I feel like Deschanel is the Winona Ryder of the last decade: a sex symbol for disaffected, mopey hipster boys with aesthetic sensibilities (Ryder dated Ryan Adams, after all, the ur-disaffected mopey hipster boy). Ryder fancied herself a serious actress though, and when that didn't pan out, faded from view.

In the theater production business (as in sets, lights, costumes) we have a saying: You can have it good, fast or cheap. Pick any two.