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I Am A Newfoundlander
Posted by
(VIP) 14 Aug 2004 1:09pm
First off, WE INVENTED RANTING long before there was MOLSON CANADIAN, or even the MONTREAL CANADIANS. I am not unemployed, but I know people who are. Some of them may be related through marriage, but they WEREN'T RELATED BEFORE THEN.
I don't fish, my father didn't fish, my grandfather probably did, and I KNOW HIS father DEFINITELY DID....BUT ONLY BECAUSE YOU CAN'T FARM A ROCK.
If I do happen to eat fish, it's going to be bloody well COOKED. None of this raw stuff they serve in restaurants. We call that BAIT!!!
Our best export is our PEOPLE.
Our weather embraces DIVERSITY. It is the only place where you can both swim and ice-fish all within the same day, in the same body of water.
I have running water.
Newfoundland is a PROVINCE. It is not a Town, Village, City, Parish or Hamlet. I don't know everybody who was born, reared, schooled, stayed, left, or died here. Some I'm sure were nice and I'm sorry for not having met them.
It's 'St. John's', not Saint John. That's in New Brunswick and they rant differently there. It's their accent.
It's pronounced 'New-fin- LAND', NOT 'New- FOUND -land'. Do you pronounce it 'ONTA-rio, or KWEE-BECK?
I drink TEA for Breakfast, TEA for Dinner and TEA for Supper. Oh, by the way, Lunch we don't 'Do.' We EAT DINNER in the middle of the day and supper...well, at SUPPERTIME.
We don't have skunks or snakes....at least not in the woods. Plenty of them in government though, and most come from away. An Expert is always some mainlander that came through the Narrows. That's the gap in the north and south side of St. John's Harbour that leads to and from the North Atlantic...the most inhospitable place on the planet outside of Ottawa.
We drink Blue Star Ale, Dominion Ale, India Pale Ale, Black Horse Beer, and RUM. Any kind, as long as its DARK. See, we traded OUR salted FISH to Jamaica for THEIR RUM...who says Newfoundlanders aren't very smart?
We were Britain's Oldest Colony and are Canada's Newest Province. Our GDP hasn't changed a bit.
We don't have 'Cottages on the Lake'. We have 'CABINS on the POND'. A pond is a body of water...a lake is a 'hole in yer boot.'
We have a wonderful sense of humour...until we feel we're being made fun of. Then we have a wonderful sense of revenge. A Newfoundlander as a friend is a friend for life. Have one as an enemy...and you'll start cursing your own mother for having given you birth..
Soap comes in 'CAKES', not Bars. Chocolate comes in BARS & so does the occasional Blonde. Speaking of Bars, we call them PUBS and we've got lots.
More than anywhere else in Canada. All of them serve RUM. They have to. Its law. Besides, they have to Screech in the Mainlanders, who in order to gain honorary citizenship in Newfoundland, down a jigger (that's a shot glass) of Famous Newfoundland Screech (that's a dark RUM), then kiss a codfish on the lips (that's in the front of its face). Many line up to do this...all Mainlanders of course. That's 'cause no self respecting Newfoundlander would dare kiss a codfish....in some out ports, he'd have to marry it!
Townies are from St. John's. Everyone else is a Bayman.
I know what FISH is...its COD. Anytime a Newfoundlander refers to 'fish' he means 'Cod'. If he's referring to salmon, or herring or halibut...HE'LL CALL IT 'SALMON, OR HERRING, OR HALIBUT'.
That wraps it up. So, now you know. Newfoundland has gotten a bad rap over the centuries. But there are only two types of people in the world....people who aren't from Newfoundland, and those FORTUNATE ENOUGH TO BE.
I AM NEWFOUNDLER
Posted by
(VIP) 19 Aug 2004 5:55pm
Make me want to move there Rocky..........NOT j/k
Rocky (The Real One)
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