Posted on 05/30/2009 12:13:46 PM PDT by buccaneer81
THE RULES OF RURAL N.B. ARE AS FOLLOWS
Listen up City Slickers & out of province Tourists
1. Pull your droopy pants up. You look like an idiot.
2. Turn your cap right, your head isn't crooked.
3. Let's get this straight; it's called a 'dirt road.' I drive a pickup truck because I want to. No matter how slow you drive, you're going to get dust on your Lexus. Drive it or get out of the way.
4. They are cattle. They're live steaks. That's why they smell funny to you. But they smell like money to us. Get over it.
5. So you have a $60,000 car. We're impressed. We have $250,000 tractors.
6. So every person in Rural NB waves. It's called being friendly. Try to understand the concept.
7. If that cell phone rings while an 8-point buck and 3 does are coming in, we WILL shoot it out of your hand. You better hope you don't have it up to your ear at the time.
8. Yeah we eat beans & brown bread. You really want sushi & caviar? It's available at the corner bait shop.
9. The 'Opener' refers to the first day of deer season. It's a religious holiday held the closest Saturday to the first of November.
10. We open doors for women. That is applied to all women, regardless of age.
11. No, there's no 'vegetarian special' on the menu. Order steak. Or you can order the Chef's Salad and pick off the 2 pounds of ham & turkey.
12. When we set a table, there are three main dishes: meats, vegetables, and breads. We use three spices: salt, pepper, and ketchup.
13. You bring 'coke' into my house, it better be brown, wet and served over ice.
14. You bring 'Mary Jane' into my house, she better be cute, know how to shoot, drive a truck, and have long hair.
15. NHL and Minor Hockey is as important here as the Leafs and Habs, and more fun to watch.
16. Yeah, we have golf courses. But don't hit the water hazards -- it spooks the fish.
17. Colleges? We have them all over. We have Universities and Community Colleges. They come outta there with an education plus a love for country, and they still wave at everybody when they come for the holidays.
18. We have a whole ton of folks in the Canadian Forces. So don't mess with us. If you do, you will get whipped by the best.
19. Turn down that blasted car stereo! That thumpity-thump crap ain't music, anyway. We don't want to hear it anymore than we want to see your boxers. Refer back to #1.
20. 2 inches of snow isn't a blizzard - it's a vacation. Drive like you got some sense in it, and DON'T take all our bread, milk, from the grocery stores. This ain't Alaska, worst case you may have to live a whole day without croissants. The pickups with snow blades and Tractors with Snow Blowers will have you out the next day.
A true New Brunswicker will send this on!!!
Ping!
Except for the snowy stuff, it sounds like rural Georgia, too...
My sis in Michigan will appreciate this....Go south for the winter? Naw they head further north.
New Brunswick is very much like the rural US; the people and landscape are remarkably like West Virginia.
The #1 rule about being from rural New Brunswick - belief in the value of socialism and big government. Only PEI and Nova Scotia might be worse, but barely.
So Moncton, NB is the Canadian equivalent of Charleston, WV in the U.S.?
I was raised on baked beans and brown bread. Very tasty.
About the same size, but probably not as much French spoken in Charleston.
No. 6 reminds me of west Texas where everybody waves. I had a friend in the oil business who waved at everyone on two-lane roads. Called it his “hi, neighbor.”
I think you’ll like this one Travis.
Fiddleheads?
Oh, Man, with butter, and a bit of salt and pepper!
We used to eat baked beans and a kind of fried dough called gallettes (sp?). Ummmm.
21. No Pooftahs!
God bless ya.
I like mine with vinegar. Mmmmmmmm
22. Abortion is NOT publically funded. Even the ruling liberal party is against it ... for now at least.
Vinegar?
Hmmm.
That makes my mouth water.
I wonder if Dijon mustard might be good too.
What do you think?
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