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From: laura@utcsstat.UUCP (Laura Creighton)
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Subject: Re: Polish joke
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Date: Sat, 10-Sep-83 16:25:10 EDT
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Ah, OZ, you have to tell that joke PROPERLY. :-). Unfortunately,
you have to be a Canadian to get some of it but I suppose that you
could modify it to suit your geographical area...

To understand this joke you have to understand about The Canadian
Broadcasting Corporation, which I will call the CBC from now on.
The CBC is the national radio station. You can find it if you are
near Canada because it is the station with people reading poetry,
playing classical music, and (if you are lucky) presenting the
Royal Canadian Air Farce or (even better) Frantic Times -- 2 
comedy shows.

if you ever do get to hear CBC radio, you will notice one thing. All
the annopuncers sound the same. There is a definite CBC radio voice,
and I know people who were not allowed to talk on CBC radio until they had
mastered the art of sounding 'right'. The next thing to remember is
that real Canadians do not sound like CBC radio announcers. There are
a lot of regional differences in pronunciation. 

okay. this is background. Now we need a Canadian group to pick on. I
am going to pick on the Newfies, because I have a lot of friends in
newfoundland. (And all you folks at garfield and munodie can tell it
as a Torahwnahw joke ).

******** begin joke ************

There was this Newfie who was unemployed, because times were tough in
Newfoundland. He decided that he would move to Toronto (Torahwnahw)
to see if he could get a job there. When he got there, after looking
for work, he found that people did not understand him. No matter how
hard he tried people kept saying "What's that you're saying? I don't
understand you at all!".

After days of this, he decided that he was going to have to lose some
of his Newfie-isms or he would never get a job. So he went to CBC
radio and enrolled in the course to make you sound like a CBC radio
announcer. It was hard work, but after many months, he had finally
mastered the particular detached, snobbish voice that was required.
In fact, he did such a good job that CBC hired him and gave him his
own time slot to read short exerps from Robertson Davies' Fifth Business
in. (Fifth Business is a very good read, by the way -- laura)

Of course, the Newfie was pleased. After receiving his first pay check,
he decided to buy some food. So he went to a store. he asked the
owner for a pound of bacon, a dozen eggs, a loaf of bread, and some
milk.

You must be a Newfie -- exclaimed the shop owner.

The Newfie was crestfallen. How did you know? he asked.

Because this is a hardware store ---

laura creighton
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