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Originally Posted by captpete13

I was once told by an old timer that would frequent a marina that I used to work at who was told by Charles Hankins himself that if you are not born on the shore then you are never a local. I personally am not as strict. If that were the case than even I being born and raised in Freehold but living in Toms River since 1996 would be a benny. I consider a benny anyone who does not currently live on the jersey shore. Not that I put you in the same category as "snookie" or "the situation". They are the real bennys. But you are still one too,just a little less of one.

I completely agree with you and your implied defination. I believe that anyone that owns a house and lives in it there at the shore for any length of time is a local. To me, Benny's are ppl that vacation at the shore during the summer. I lived in STR from 1969 to 1980. While I was there I considered myself a local. When I moved from there (even thought I still owned the house in STR) I became a Benny again since I no longer lived there. My comment about not being a Benny was in the context of implying that I knew the back roads, the general condition of same and who and what you could expect to find on them at any given time of the day or night.

I have a brain, so I don't watch snookie or the situation (whatever that is). Reality TV isn't. It's staged, poorly scripted, poorly acted melo-drama. In short, it's evening soap opera and I have better things to do with my time.

By the way, I haven't been in that area for a while. Do you know, did they ever find a new place for the museum for Mr. Hankins boats and displays?