Posted on 08/10/2019 4:20:31 AM PDT by NOBO2012
If you are from Philly you say “down the shore”.
We say that in NY too :)
NJ is south.
I spent last weekend on Torch Lake taking my friends boat to the sand bar to hang in the afternoon.
Scenic.
Lower 48ers for most of you!
The meaning of Going down the shore depends on from which sector of NJ you hail; that's why Darryl Hannah's backhanded comment about Wildwood in the movie Wall Street was clearly the result of an uneducated dolt: some NYC thing like her character would have instead spoke of Mannesquan or Long Branch or Asbury Park.
FWIW, the best cheesesteak I ever had was on the boardwalk in Wildwood while the best ice cream was from a shack in Asbury Park near The Stone Pony.
And for the record, I hate Springsteen.
We just say we’re going to The Cottage.
We lived in Cherry Hill when I was a surgery intern at Cooper. IIRC when people said the were going “down to the shore” the left out “to the”. It was just down shore. “We’re going down shore, wanna come?”
LOL
I like some of his songs, have had GREAT cheese steaks on a few different boardwalks in NJ and if I was going to the Hamptons from Staten Island I would say UP to the shore :)
BTW, is that you in front of that storefront?
You could go to Rehoboth Beach DE(Biden Country) and watch the fags sashay by.
Asbury Park is making a pretty good comeback.
Spent a few hours at the pinball museum - $15 bucks buys a half day of free play on dozens of vintage pinball machines, shuffle bowling, target games, etc.
Each has a nice plaque over it describing the game, why it’s unique, who were the artists & manufacturers, etc.
Well worth it.
http://silverballmuseum.com/asbury-park/
I've always love Lake Michigan, cold, clear and deep.....
Not me...as Flo &a Eddie would say, it’s Robert Planet
While I'm not a Springsteen fan at all, I have it on good authority that Bruce makes donations anonymously in and around the area. I give the man props for "giving back" and not being a typical attention-seeking whore in this regard, and his marathon shows.
I'm a Southern boy. God gave us the Gulf Stream so ya'll can come and swim in November (Canadians come even in January!) It's fantastic that the lakes are full again.
You missed a barely-audible but essential syllable. The proper expression is, "downashore." To break it up into phonetic Philly/SJersey-accent units, daown nuh shuoor.
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It’s “Down the shore.”
Or, in NewJerseySpeak, Downashore.
I have managed to avoid The Shore for years and years, preferring the woods and hills of Northwest Jersey, sitting on my deck and looking at... trees.
...we’re gowin downah shoor for Seen-yeh Weeeeek. Like twelvovus er gonna stay at mah grammas hause an pound Genny Creams and get waysted.
Up North.
A term unique to Michiganders, and all of us know what that means.
Up North It’s high summer right now. Simply awesome.
The last time the lake was this high, 1987, National Geographic used it as an excuse to tell us about the coming ice age.....gotta love it.
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