Bob Blakely wrote: >#1 13/13 100% 0 miles 145 secs > >But that's only because I didn't get Saskatchewan first. > >Note: If you don't get Saskatchewan or Alberta first, you've got it made. > >My ecole made me learn this stuff when I was a child living in Que. > >Anybody know any good Newfie jokes? > >Regards, >Bob Blakely >
I do teacher I do..... The one about the fishermen finding a particularly good fishing spot and when asked how he could find it again he replied he had marked the side of the boat. But I have a real Newfy joke - well, perhaps not so very funny but after the third of three incidences that occured when I visted there over 25 years ago I was beginning to believe the unpc Newfy bashing had some merit (as jay Leno would say, Don't write me letters, this is all in fun ) (1) playing Scrabble with a Newfoundlander on the ferry to Argentia. my op is a Newfy - We play maybe 7 or 8 games, all of which I've won... then the last game he finally manages to get off to a good start playing CLIENTS with two blanks (blanks, for you non scrabblers, are tiles you can make any letter you wish and playing all seven tiles gets you 50 bonus points - there are only two in a set of tiles - the most valuable tiles in the set) As he puts down the word and I comment on the blanks he says he considered passing and throwing one of them back.... (2) The cab driver who drives me to the city from the ferry terminal observes my camera - says he had a whole roll of film that was blank... I try to help saying, hmm, did set the ASA wrong? did you check to see if the film was advancing? ETc... nono, that wasnt it -- he had not removed the lens cap. (3) my waitress in a restaurant and I are chatting a bit... I'm writing in my journal... I suddenly draw a (mental) blank about port and starboard and she has told me she is married to a sailor. So I ask her which is which and she has no clue what I'm talking about. My apologies to smart Newfies ann >--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >"A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, >and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes." > - Robert Frost > > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "mike wilson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > >>>From: "frank theriault" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> >>>On 6/21/07, John Sessoms <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>> >>>>>From: >>>>>"frank theriault >>>>> >>>>>Hey, Dave, >>>>> >>>>>They should have one for Canada. 10 provinces. 10 nice big easy to >>>>>place provinces... >>>>> >>>>> >>>>They do. >>>> >>>>http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/Geography.php >>>> >>>>Trial Score %Correct Avg.Error Time >>>> #1 13/13 100% 0 Miles 86 secs >>>> >>>> >>>100% - 71 seconds >>> >>>Which of course proves that we canadians know our geography better >>>than Americans! >>> >>> >>I placed Saskatchewan 21 miles too far west to let Alberta fit and it >>penalised me one point. 21miles! (Gives up in a huff) >> >> > > > > > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
