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Well if we go by the TNG TM, then as much as 30% of the spaceframe is unfilled; literally big yawning empty spaces.

I would have loved to see that in the show sometime. Have a character open up a sealed door and look out on a vast big empty space where they are about to install another laboratory or something.

Be fun place to play if it didnt have artificial gravity.

Cpl Kendall wrote:home of the man/moose/seal hybrid.

Poor male:female ratio among the Newfies, then?

Cpl Kendall wrote:BTW: You can thank your wonderful government for buggering up the economy enough to make it possible for Canucks to visit.

Trust me - you don't have to remind me about what my guv'mint has done. But the influx I referred to was actually a mid- to late-19th century phenomenon.

Mikey wrote:
Poor male:female ratio among the Newfies, then?

So I hear, there's a reason why there's more Newfies in Toronto than on the actual Rock.

Trust me - you don't have to remind me about what my guv'mint has done. But the influx I referred to was actually a mid- to late-19th century phenomenon.

So that area has always sucked then?

Sorry dude, I couldn't resist.

Yeah, I can't blame you for that one.

Seriously, though, for all the bad press (not the least of which comes from New Jersey natives) we do have some very beautiful areas for beach-going, hiking, etc. We are also still "The Garden State" and especially the southern part the state is still largely agrarian - lots of berry farms. While there are areas in which the phrase "smells like New jersey" do apply, I've been up and down the East and West Coasts, and the only beaches I've found that are CLEARLY superior to NJ's are in Hawai'i.

Mikey wrote:Yeah, I can't blame you for that one.

Seriously, though, for all the bad press (not the least of which comes from New Jersey natives) we do have some very beautiful areas for beach-going, hiking, etc. We are also still "The Garden State" and especially the southern part the state is still largely agrarian - lots of berry farms. While there are areas in which the phrase "smells like New jersey" do apply, I've been up and down the East and West Coasts, and the only beaches I've found that are CLEARLY superior to NJ's are in Hawai'i.

Oh I don't doubt that the area is nice, it's just fun to poke at the NJ stereotype. For as much as I slag my area it's quite beautiful as well but like everywhere the populace spoils it.

When I think of NJ i think NY Jr or the Sopranos.

When I think of NJ, I think "Oo, cheap gas!" Sorry Mikey.

Cpl Kendall wrote:Oh I don't doubt that the area is nice, it's just fun to poke at the NJ stereotype. For as much as I slag my area it's quite beautiful as well but like everywhere the populace spoils it.

I don't take it to heart. If I did, I'd put you in cement shoes and dump you in Barnegat Bay.

Teaos wrote:When I think of NJ i think NY Jr or the Sopranos.

You gotta problem wit dat? Fuhgeddaboutit!

But, yeah - those guys are real, and they're here.

stitch626 wrote:When I think of NJ, I think "Oo, cheap gas!" Sorry Mikey.

It's cool - around me, we're averaging (this week) about $3.75/gal (full-serve!)

Mikey wrote:It's cool - around me, we're averaging (this week) about $3.75/gal (full-serve!)

Got you beat: We're at $3.64 the last time I checked.

Tsukiyumi wrote:

Mikey wrote:It's cool - around me, we're averaging (this week) about $3.75/gal (full-serve!)

Got you beat: We're at $3.64 the last time I checked.

We're averaging $4.17. Basically, one gallon for me is that same as four days of food (I can eat cheap, and not at McDonalds).

stitch626 wrote:

Tsukiyumi wrote:

Mikey wrote:It's cool - around me, we're averaging (this week) about $3.75/gal (full-serve!)

Got you beat: We're at $3.64 the last time I checked.

We're averaging $4.17. Basically, one gallon for me is that same as four days of food (I can eat cheap, and not at McDonalds).

Sucky. It helps to live a few dozen miles from one of the largest refinery complexes in the country.

Oh, and I eat super cheap myself. Cooking is fun.

Same here, Tsu, about being close to refineries/distribution plants. There's a LOT of cracking/tankage going on in central NJ, what with the proximity of New York, Elizabeth, Port Newark, etc. Amerada Hess global HQ is in Perth Amboy, NJ.

GrahamKennedy wrote:Well if we go by the TNG TM, then as much as 30% of the spaceframe is unfilled; literally big yawning empty spaces.

I would have loved to see that in the show sometime. Have a character open up a sealed door and look out on a vast big empty space where they are about to install another laboratory or something.

Or in the proscess find the remains of a body. That would have been alot spookier than fiding remains inside a warp nacelle. Could have made for a great two or three part murder mystery (something they didn't do nearly enough of in Trek)

Mark wrote:Or in the proscess find the remains of a body. That would have been alot spookier than fiding remains inside a warp nacelle. Could have made for a great two or three part murder mystery (something they didn't do nearly enough of in Trek)

Would have been a lot more interesting to do a proper whodunnit like that than the telepathy gibberish we got. You'd have to be careful it didn't turn into Midsomer Murders though - the E-D hasn't got a big enough crew.