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New Jersey to rename multiple
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Posted By: NorthernDog, 7/28/2021 1:47:27 PM

New Jersey's rest stops are getting the green light for a star-powered boost, with new names honoring "icons" from the state, including James Gandolfini, Whitney Houston and Jon Bon Jovi. Gov. Phil Murphy (D) announced Tuesday that nine service areas along the Garden State Parkway will be renamed as a way to "showcase the outstanding talent of the people of New Jersey and their contributions to the world." The rest stop in Montvale, N.J., will honor the late "Sopranos" star Gandolfini, while Cheesequake's spot will now be known as the Jon Bon Jovi Service Area and Vauxhall will double as

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Anyone who has visited a NJ rest stop would not consider this to be an honor.

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Reply 1 - Posted by: Halfvast Conspirator 7/28/2021 1:50:30 PM (No. 860250)
Who was that governor who liked to frequent rest stops? Name one after him?
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Reply 2 - Posted by: Thos Weatherby 7/28/2021 1:51:35 PM (No. 860252)
I'm sure another NJ resident will also have a rest stop named for him. Trump Rest Stop
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Reply 3 - Posted by: Birddog 7/28/2021 2:28:28 PM (No. 860292)
Gandolfini??? The dude who bought a restaurant/Bar in Oneonta NY and used it to drug/molest young college girls??
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Reply 4 - Posted by: Nimby 7/28/2021 2:30:13 PM (No. 860295)
COVID lockdown has made people's brains into mush!! This is what they come up with after being locked down in their homes?
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Reply 5 - Posted by: Rumblehog 7/28/2021 2:40:30 PM (No. 860305)
Next up, restrooms named after famous NJ transexuals.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: Son of Grady 7/28/2021 2:52:28 PM (No. 860322)
How about the "Barack Obama rest stop and bathhouse". He wasn't born in NJ, but he wasn't born in Hawaii either.
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Reply 7 - Posted by: Scrubber 7/28/2021 2:52:47 PM (No. 860323)
I live here. I think it’s not a bad idea after all.
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Reply 8 - Posted by: anniebc 7/28/2021 2:52:53 PM (No. 860324)
Anybody know where Wiley Coyote is from? Maybe he can get a cliff or something named after him.
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Reply 9 - Posted by: formerNYer 7/28/2021 3:05:01 PM (No. 860341)
Just name them all "The democRAT's toilet!"
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Reply 10 - Posted by: Jethro bo 7/28/2021 3:15:35 PM (No. 860349)
Cool. Naming rest stops on famous folks that OD. Whitney, Prince, Michelle (AKA Micheal) Jackson, Heath Ledger, Jim Morrison, Tom Pretty, John Belushi, Ike Turner, Diana Churchill (Winston's daughter so might not qualify as American), and Hank the Angry Drunken Dwarf (sic Little Person).
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Reply 11 - Posted by: marbles 7/28/2021 3:25:24 PM (No. 860362)
How incredibly embarrassing and cheap. I live in NJ. They have no sense of history. The American Revolution was fought all over NJ and cheesy pop culture is what the jerks in charge do.
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Reply 12 - Posted by: bldrrepub 7/28/2021 4:03:52 PM (No. 860391)
Well at least they kept the historic figures on the Jersey Turnpike rest stops. I'll bet, however, that 90% or the population couldn't identify Molly Pitcher and her contribution to New Jersey.
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Reply 13 - Posted by: usawatcher 7/28/2021 4:23:39 PM (No. 860414)
Seems appropriate...politicians are full of sh**....:) Of course none of them will get the irony I'm sure...:)
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Reply 14 - Posted by: J. Arthur Brown 7/28/2021 4:23:44 PM (No. 860415)
Can't wait to christen the Chris Christie Rest Stop.
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Reply 15 - Posted by: Schnapps 7/28/2021 4:24:47 PM (No. 860417)
I'm with #10 on this. Before ANY celebrity's name appears on a public property or structure they should be dead first.
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Reply 16 - Posted by: Surroundedbyblue 7/28/2021 4:33:07 PM (No. 860430)
I’m sure Bon Jovi is thrilled to know there will be a bathroom named in his honor. I’ve got believe this has and will cost millions by the time they are done. Clowns.
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Reply 17 - Posted by: montwoodcliff 7/28/2021 4:36:33 PM (No. 860433)
Doesn’t Murphy have anything better to do in Trenton? I guess not because he’s busy taking his marching orders from Senator Steve Sweeney and Party Boss George Norcross.
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Reply 18 - Posted by: Rumblehog 7/28/2021 6:14:29 PM (No. 860552)
Rep. Gerry Studds Boys' Room Rep. Barney Frank Shower Stall Hon. Alcee Hastings Toll Station The Sandy Berger Public Library Rep. Charles Diggs Post Office
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Reply 19 - Posted by: FL_Absentee_Voter 7/28/2021 6:43:22 PM (No. 860576)
The Boss respectfully declined to participate. The Chairman of the Board wasn't given the option.
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Reply 20 - Posted by: padiva 7/28/2021 9:19:21 PM (No. 860710)
Former gov McGreevy like to have mandates at the rest stops. Maybe the dark corners of the rest stops can be dedicated to him.
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Reply 21 - Posted by: MickTurn 7/28/2021 10:02:05 PM (No. 860752)
New Jersey is vying to take New York's hard one title of New Jerk... I'm sure there are some real life hero's that will be used to name things after. How about you start with Bevis and Butthead?
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Reply 22 - Posted by: Birddog 7/28/2021 11:15:01 PM (No. 860817)
NY spent $Millions changing all of their "Reststops" to "Textstops" and adding hundreds of signs announcing it, as well as hundreds more notifying people of increased texting while driving penalties and enforcement efforts.Then shut down most of the services because....Covid.
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