Seriously? Do we really need this?

[smc36]

I admit - I've never, ever seen the show "Jersey Shore", nor do I plan on ever seeing it. I grew up at 'the Jersey Shore' and I can state unequivocally that if you call it the "Jersey Shore" then you are NOT from the "Jersey Shore." We went to the beach, and we hated the people who called it "the shore

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[cianconnell]

All my Philly folk from law school who had a shore house called it "going down the shore," so I don't know if it's a Philly thing or what, but it's definitely refereced as "the shore" for a large populace (ice?) of folk who rent the houses there.

*shrugs*

But maybe a Philly, not a Jersey thing? Though still talking about the same beaches?

What the hells do I know? I was spoiled and hit Litchfield Beach in S.C. every year. That's where my family had our beach (definitely, not shore) house, and we ARE classy, damnit!

*waves*

[kazfloyd]

going "down the shore" is a Philly thing. Yes, we have "shore" houses. When we people say they are going to the beach, to me that means going to the islands.

The Jersey Shore is a train wreck though, I can't stop watching.

[cianconnell]

Ha! I watched every episode...I did say that I was classy didn't I? I kinda loved the whole fact that they all had nicknames that you just knew they made up for themselves and were so terribly cheesy. Pauly D. seemed like good folk, though, yes, terribly cheesy. Snooks is in a league all of her own, as is "The Situation," and what I love best is that they really caught lightening in a bottle. They'll never be able to reproduce it (so I don't have to watch any derivation), and the folk in it (most of whom were cast far away from Jersey) seem to kind of have a good sense of humor about it all, and able to totally mock themselves, just as we mock them.

[smc36]

B.E.N.N.Y.