Now, now, I grew up going to Atlantic City every summer, (B.C. -- before casinos), and it doesn't usually smell that bad at all, hardly. I also went to college in New Jersey. Pop quiz: what is the (a) state flower, (b) state tree, (c) state bird, and (d) state motto? Answer: (a) beer can, (b) telephone pole, (c) mosquito, (d) "What's that smell?" True fact: there was a program on New Jersey Public Television called "A Lot Happens Between New York and Philadelphia." Which is almost as bad as a slogan that was once seriously proposed as an official slogan for my hometown: "Philadelphia Isn't As Bad As Philadelphians Say It Is!"

Aloha,
Mark