Warning Labels and Lawsuits or Warning: These labels are wacky

[Black Jeebus]

PK are they like the Alabama of Canada? Sheep-shaggers, sister-shaggers, mother-shaggers, etc.-shaggers...

[graham]

PKT - nope, he was from Ontario

Black Jeebus - not at all. What they are is the most fun-loving crowd you will find anywhere. Folks from 'The Rock' know how to party, and any excuse will do.

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[pkt]

BJ,

That's what they want you to believe. Officially.

They're like the Irish to the English, the Poles to the European...ad nauseum. I know, these are all very much non-PC assertations, sterotyping.

Truth be told, some of the funniest Canadians, better singers and fiddlers ARE from the Rock. Hey, they got nothing better to do than to entertain one another.

I think there are more Newfies in the rest of Canada than in Newfoundland.

[BTW, you do NOT say New-FOUND-land. Graham, correct me if I'm wrong, it's NEW-fun-land. Like "Abbotsford" should be pronounced as "AB-bots-[f-u-d]". It's an English thing, OK?]

PK

ps. I had to spell 'f-u-d' with the hyphens because apparently without the hyphens it's a BAD word.
Which reminds me to start a new thread about censorship.
PK

[graham]

PKT,

I was lecturing to a university class with quite a few Newfoundlanders in it and quite quickly had my pronounciation corrected (I am originally from Ontario). I mispronounced Newfoundland twice and then a male voice from the back of the class spoke up: "Newfoundland, Understand' - the two rhyme, with the emphasis on the final syllable, as you suggested.

I spent a couple of summers working in the woods of western Newfoundlan and met a lot of pretty wonderful folk there.

gt