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Y'all know why New Yorkers have a major attitude?
Because the light at the end of their tunnel is ... New Jersey.
Satan (impatiently) to Newcomer: The trouble with you Chicago people is, that you think you are the best people down here; whereas you are merely the most numerous.
- - - Mark Twain, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar" 1897