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Why are Newfoundlanders so dumb?
Canada Free Press ^ | Tuesday, February 14, 2006 | Myles Higgins

Posted on 02/14/2006 10:13:52 AM PST by Anne_Conn

It's long been said by people in Newfoundland and Labrador that, "everyone else thinks they know better than we how things should be done." "Outsiders" have given us reams and reams of unsolicited advice for decades, since long before joining Confederation in fact.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Foreign Affairs; Government; Political Humor/Cartoons; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: canada; fishquotas; lowerchurchill; naturalresources; newfoundland; oilreserves

1 posted on 02/14/2006 10:13:54 AM PST by Anne_Conn
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To: Anne_Conn

Er, because they live there?


2 posted on 02/14/2006 10:16:58 AM PST by RexBeach ("There is no substitute for victory." -Douglas MacArthur)
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To: Anne_Conn

3 posted on 02/14/2006 10:18:54 AM PST by quantim (If the Constitution were perfect it wouldn't have included the Senate.)
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To: Anne_Conn

It's in the cod. If there's any cod left.


4 posted on 02/14/2006 10:19:27 AM PST by zarf (It's time for a college football playoff system.)
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To: Anne_Conn

It's like Ireland with lobsters, slow skaters and ratty trotters.


5 posted on 02/14/2006 10:20:34 AM PST by jjmcgo
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To: quantim
There is a sign in the woods for the Deer to read about a mile back with a picture of that idiot sitting on the beer next to the road with a gun. lol
6 posted on 02/14/2006 10:23:15 AM PST by TheForceOfOne
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To: TheForceOfOne

BUMP!


7 posted on 02/14/2006 10:34:00 AM PST by Publius6961
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To: RexBeach

Newfies are God's afterthought after He created monkeys.


8 posted on 02/14/2006 10:41:29 AM PST by ArtyFO (I love to smoke cigars when I adjust artillery fire.)
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To: Anne_Conn

two newfies standing across a river from eachother...one yells over to the other "how do i get to the udder side?" to which, the other thinks for a beat and responds:
"You are on the udder side!"


9 posted on 02/14/2006 10:49:19 AM PST by libertarian_nyc
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To: Anne_Conn

Aren't Newfies the ones urging Quebec to pull out of Canada so they can be closer to Toronto?


10 posted on 02/14/2006 10:50:50 AM PST by N. Theknow (Kennedys - Can't drive, can't fly, can't ski, can't skipper a boat - But they know what's best.)
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To: Anne_Conn

Newfoundlanders are dumb because they live in CanaDUH !!!!


11 posted on 02/14/2006 10:51:15 AM PST by 2harddrive (...House a TOTAL Loss.....)
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To: Anne_Conn

Damn, I thought this thread was about dogs....


12 posted on 02/14/2006 11:40:41 AM PST by lovecraft (Specialization is for insects.)
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To: lovecraft

So did I ....I love my lab I love my friends newfie


13 posted on 02/14/2006 11:46:14 AM PST by Kimmers (It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem. G. K. Chesterton)
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To: Kimmers
hmmmmm.
Canada freepress link still doesn't work...
14 posted on 02/14/2006 12:05:25 PM PST by Publius6961
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To: 2harddrive

"Newfoundlanders are dumb because they live in CanaDUH !!!!"

So what's your excuse?


15 posted on 02/14/2006 12:13:24 PM PST by -YYZ-
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To: Anne_Conn
I AM NOT DUMB!!


16 posted on 02/14/2006 2:14:10 PM PST by Feiny ("Muslims are the only people who make feminists seem laid-back." Ann Coulter)
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