From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V16 #235 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Friday, November 4 2011 Volume 16 : Number 235 To unsubscribe: e-mail ecto-digest-request@smoe.org and put the word unsubscribe in the message body. Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Hidden New Jersey [jessica spurling ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2011 12:12:33 -0700 From: jessica spurling Subject: Re: Hidden New Jersey Hah! Thanks for sharing this & pointing that out. :) I left New Jersey in 1994 and have never looked back... But I do appreciate the finer points of the state and think it gets a terribly unfair reputation. So much of the state is absolutely beautiful! And quite a lot of variety to that beauty. - --jessica On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 11:54 AM, Mitch Pravatiner wrote: > Yesterday, _CBS News Sunday Morning_ ran a piece called "Why does New > Jersey get no respect?", which discussed numerous stereotypes about the > state, and presented a variety of positive but largely unheralded facts > about it. (It's available online at > http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/01/16/sunday/main7252648.shtml?tag=cbsnewsTwoColUpperPromoArea). I did, however, notice one glaring omission from their litany of > positive facts, which--in fairness--only an Ectophile would be likely to > detect: New Jersey is the birthplace of Ecto. > > It was 20 years ago this past June that Jessica, our founder, caused this > list to arrive on Earth, hosted on a server at Rutgers. The rest, as the > saying goes, is history. It's one of the more unsung facts abut the garden > State, admittedly; but not without its own commemoration in song: A number > of years ago, I wrote a couple of additional verses to "The Rolling Mills of > New Joisey," John Roberts and Tony Barrand's spoof of a traditional Scottish > song, in praise of Ecto and Happy. It's in the Ecto archives for November > 3, 1993 (available online at ecto.org). > > Mitch ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V16 #235 ***************************