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Re: Happy New Brunswick Day!
They only call it Newfoundland and Labrabor because Newfoundland, Labrador and Cape Breton doesn't fit on the license plates.
Eh? Boy it's amazing what slips past as the birthdays lengthen. The last time I looked Cape Breton was part of Nova Scotia. When did it join the other Province? |
Re: Happy New Brunswick Day!
It is my understanding that Cape Bretoners both look and sound exactly like newfies.
And they all live in the hills, in dark holes, and their women-folk have beards. BIG ginger beards. |
Re: Happy New Brunswick Day!
Originally Posted by Auld Yin
(Post 10836562)
They only call it Newfoundland and Labrabor because Newfoundland, Labrador and Cape Breton doesn't fit on the license plates.
Eh? Boy it's amazing what slips past as the birthdays lengthen. The last time I looked Cape Breton was part of Nova Scotia. When did it join the other Province? Ps; I've met some beautiful women from Newfoundland, they don't all have beards. |
Re: Happy New Brunswick Day!
Do we need a separate thread for the story about the two boys strangled by the python? In the running for most tragic, but easily a front runner for most bizarre tragedy.
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Re: Happy New Brunswick Day!
Given the fun and lightheartedness of this thread, perhaps a new thread? I just had a quick scan over the story and I'm wondering if there'll be a criminal investigation...
Originally Posted by caretaker
(Post 10836713)
Do we need a separate thread for the story about the two boys strangled by the python? In the running for most tragic, but easily a front runner for most bizarre tragedy.
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Re: Happy New Brunswick Day!
The new colony of New Brunswick, (named for somewhere in Germany (thank you), was nearly named New Ireland.
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Re: Happy New Brunswick Day!
Originally Posted by Atlantic Xpat
(Post 10836207)
Not a day off in Newfoundland, but Wednesday is, at least in St John's, weather permitting a holiday. It's the occasion of the Royal St John's Regatta (rowing) and is the only public holiday anywhere to the best of my knowledge that is weather dependent. If on the first wednesday of the month the weather is good enough for rowing, we all get a day off. It not, then we don't & they try again Thursday, Friday etc.
That is the most pointless stat holiday ever - if it's a little bit windy and the stalls all around the pond are not going to make obscene amounts of money then it all gets cancelled and I end up having to go to work with a bugger of a hangover ;) |
Re: Happy New Brunswick Day!
Originally Posted by nldfc
(Post 10837257)
That is the most pointless stat holiday ever - if it's a little bit windy and the stalls all around the pond are not going to make obscene amounts of money then it all gets cancelled and I end up having to go to work with a bugger of a hangover ;)
Halifax had floats and marching bands and things, and all sorts of things going on in Saint John too, that's 'our' one in NB! |
Re: Happy New Brunswick Day!
Originally Posted by nldfc
(Post 10837257)
That is the most pointless stat holiday ever - if it's a little bit windy and the stalls all around the pond are not going to make obscene amounts of money then it all gets cancelled and I end up having to go to work with a bugger of a hangover ;)
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