They offered me the office, offered me the shop. They said I'd better take anything they'd got. Do you wanna make tea at the CBC? Do you wanna be, do you really wanna be a cop?
Here’s an experiment you might want to try. If find yourself in St. John’s you should go to the George Town Pub on a Sunday night. Relax at the bar with your MacBook Pro and say “Hey Newf, get me a beer!”… see if the patrons find it “Varietyesque”…. best of luck pal.
The term was carefully chosen (it’s also Varietyesque) and, unlike a similar word with one extra syllable, is not pejorative. (Compare Pak with a word similar to it that also has one extra syllable.)
While "derivative of a 30 year old American network show" sounds like CBC, contemporary adult cable does not. I wonder which executive is suddenly so bold.
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Well the next time you are at a bar blogging and paying for your next table dance remember that “Newf” is considered pejorative.
The end.
Let me put it to you this way: Whenever I visit a bar, it isn’t to drink or conduct linguistics field research.
“Patrons at a bar are not writing heds for a blog.”
… no… no they are not. This argument has obviously fizzled with your last post (“pas touché”) so the last thing I will say is that any blogger that uses “Newf” and “Varietyesque” in the same dialog should maybe go visit a bar and get a taste of the real world.
Patrons at a bar are not writing heds for a blog.
While you’re at it you might want to update the wikipedia link…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newfie … especially the first line.
Here’s an experiment you might want to try. If find yourself in St. John’s you should go to the George Town Pub on a Sunday night. Relax at the bar with your MacBook Pro and say “Hey Newf, get me a beer!”… see if the patrons find it “Varietyesque”…. best of luck pal.
*facepalm* Nice of you to use the “Newf” word… I think your blog spell checker plugin needs to be updated.
The term was carefully chosen (it’s also Varietyesque) and, unlike a similar word with one extra syllable, is not pejorative. (Compare Pak with a word similar to it that also has one extra syllable.)
While "derivative of a 30 year old American network show" sounds like CBC, contemporary adult cable does not. I wonder which executive is suddenly so bold.