This note is for youse guys outside the Garden State -

Dear Consumas:

It has come ta our attention dat a cupola copies of the Windows XP New Joisey Edition may have been shipped outsida Joisey. If ya got one a dese, youse may need some help unnerstanin da commands.

Da Joisey edition may be recognized by da unique openin' screen. It reads: "Windas XP", wit a background pitcha a Hoboken. When youse start da program, instead a da usual stringy like music, you hear a little Springsteen. It'* also shipped wit a Sopranos screen sava.

Please also note:

Recycle bin is labeled "Newark"

My Computer is called "My Friggin' Computa"

The Inbox is referred to as "Da Trunk"

Deleted items are referred to as "Wacked", "Erased" or "Rubbed Out"

Control Panel is known as "The Bosses"

Performing an "illegal operation" is known as "Enhancin' da Family Business" and will actually maximize da program instead a shuttin' it down

Hard Drive is referred to as "Da Turnpike on Da Way to Da Shore"

Instead of an error message, "You Ain't Gonna Friggin' Believe Dis'" pops up.

Changes in Terminology in Da Joisey Edition:
OK . . . . Sure ting
Cancel . . . . Fugetabouit
Reset . . . . Start ova
Yeah . . . . Yeas
No . . . . Nah
Find . . . . Put a Contract Out On
Browse . . . . Get a Looksee
Back . . . . U-Toin
Help . . . . Get Your Own Friggin' Ansa
Stop . . . . Knock it Off
Start . . . . Move it
Settings . . . . Here'* da Rules

We regret any inconvenience it may have caused if you mistakenly got a copy of the Joisey Edition (not).

You may return it to Microsoft for a replacement version.

You gotta problem wit dat?

Something tells me this was written by a New Yorker. Any good New Jerseyan knows that the Turnpike doesn't go to the shore -- but the Garden State Parkway does!

--your resident Jersey girl, Jen

Nicely done on the Jersey ownage Jen

She musta just invented Joisey ownage... No one'* ever seen it before!

Eh, I've lived here all my life, so I should know a thing or two about this state.

I *could* go into how no one in NJ really talks in the manner described and how it'* all a product of people watching too much of The Sopranos but hey... even I understand the value of a good joke. :P

Jersey! Only people from Brooklyn say "Joisey" when they feel the need to mock us...

Whoa...ez tiger...in defense of yer state...

LOL..just kiddn hun, *dont shoot*

All in fun... and hell, I'll even admit to slipping and saying the occasional "youse guys".. what can I say, Jersey born & bred

You heard about the guy whose girlfriend said she wanted him to kiss her "where it stinks", and he drove her to Jersey, right?

LMAO!