There are about 9 million people living in the state of New Jersey and they are not all mobsters and corrupt politicians, as The Sopranos and Boardwalk Empire might have you believe. New Jerseyans are pretty accustomed to stereotypes like this, and Jersey Jokes are a well-established genre of American humor. How far back does this tradition go? Abraham Lincoln, the greatest of our presidents, is reported to have told a Jersey joke about a shipwrecked sailor who would rather f