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Born in Elizabeth, grew up in Union, escaped for a few years for college, moved back to Basking Ridge... now in the wilds of Somerset County and Long Beach Island.
Where/when were you in Union? I lived off of Summit Road, near Kean College from 66-83.
I bet a lot of us females who hang out around here prefer dive gear and dive holidays to diamonds. They got it something else wrong about diamonds the way I see it.. Diamonds aren't forever... memories are better... they last as long as it really matters
Well, in his post above, Mike Boswell actually drew my attention to the missing apostrophes when he quoted your message and added "sic". "Sic", Latin for "thus", is used "when writing quoted material to indicate that an incorrect or unusual spelling, phrase, punctuation or meaning in the quote has been reproduced verbatim from the original and is not a transcription error." Still, as he says, apostrophe omission may have a theological basis, so I won't quibble further.
That'll go down well when you're next in Yorkshire. In my neck of the woods, Tyneside, two counties further north than Yorkshire in England, the equivalent greeting is "Howway the lads", roughly translating as "come on, boys" and deriving from football (soccer) chants at Newcastle United's St James' Park stadium. When US President Jimmy Carter visited Tyneside on 6 May, 1977, James Callaghan, the then UK Prime Minister, accompanied him and taught him to say "Howway the lads" when he addressed the crowd. He immediately captured everybody's hearts in North East England. More here, a photo and a video:
