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Jersey Accent

What most people call the dialect spoken in Staten Island, Bayonne and parts of Long Island. The actual Northern NJ accent today is a mellowed version of a New York Accent, which in itself has its origins in the original British accent. (As NY was a Tory region for so long.) NYers tend to drop their R's more than NJers but otherwise pronounce words like coffee and talk as (kawfey) and (tawk) And New York like Nu-yawk.)

With So many hundreds of thousands of people moving to and from the NYC metro area every year, The traditional Jersey Accent has all but disappeared.

by 07079 January 23, 2009

joisey

1920's Betty Boop, caricturish, outdated notion of how New Jerseyians talk. Mostly propagated by middle of the country bumkins who have never left their home town.

Midwesterner1: I used to think people from Joisey all have big or slicked hair, live in an ethnic neighborhood and drive around in a Camaro. And when they weren't screaming at their girlfriend to Shut the Fuck Up they're stealin' somebodies hubcaps.

Midwesterer2: So, what changed your mind?

Midwesterner1: I went there.

by 07079 January 25, 2009

Zune

An MP3 player primarily marketed toward Microsoft fanbois or for people who hate Apple. Although later models were decent enough, the launch product was crippled and ridiculed to the point where it poisoned the brand forever.

5 years later most people still haven't heard of it as it awaits cancellation by Microsoft.

Hey I read on ZDnet today that Microsoft will no longer be producing the Zune.

What's that?

by 07079 March 4, 2011

Attack

Idiosyncratic term for "offense" or "forward" in the Game of Lacrosse. Commonly used as a noun referring to the position, or status of ball possession.

Each Lacrosse team consists of 10 players on the field. They include:
1 Goalie
3 Defencemen
3 Midfielders
3 on attack

by 07079 February 12, 2009

Clonewear

Style or brand of clothing marketed toward the insecurities of teenagers who feel they need to match the outward appearance of the social clique with they would like to belong. Preppys are the most conspicuous group but there are others as well; including cliques that define themselves as non-conformists yet still wear the same non-conformist clothing, colors and brands

Preppy Clonewear: Khakis, A&F shirt, LLBean docksiders.
Emo Clonewear: Black tee shirt, tight black jeans studded leather neck and bracelets
Metal Guy Clonewear: Jeans, Black concert shirt, black leather jacket
Jock Clonewear: jeans, School sport tee shirt, Letterman Jacket

by 07079 January 14, 2009

Harry Potter driveby

The act of prepurchasing a Harry Potter book, or buying it at the midnight sale, Quickly skimming through the book to the end and then slowly driving through the parking lot where hundreds of other Potter fans are waiting to by the book and Shouting out the ending and key plot revelations at the crowd, thus ruining the book for everyone.

The guys who do the Harry Potter driveby are real douchebags, but those Youtube clips sure are funny.

by 07079 January 27, 2009

Prig

One who demonstrates smugness at conforming to conservative ideals. Often deriding elements of modernity and change simply because it is outside of the absolutist parameters by which the prig views his surroundings. The prig elevates the artificial constructs of established rules to the point where deviation from these fabrications will be judged as "good" or "bad." Even on superficial matters.

A prig will be the guy in your neighborhood who tries to change town ordinances to prevent his neighbors from building a modern house on the same street as his precious center-hall colonial. Because in his mind, modern design is "bad", and traditional cookie-cutter homes are "good" by virtue of their normality.

by 07079 January 23, 2009