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And Mavia and I am certain Louisa Duck would want to join in too! Go to the rock and be sure to stay in B & Bs, it's as if you are a visiting relative they take such care of you. I took my uncle and aunt there several years ago and although they have been everywhere, lived in India etc. Newfoundland is the place they love the best.

I have a Newfie friend and she is always amazed how many people 'guess' she is a Newf - now someone in this day and age who is still referring to you as 'ye' and 'thou' - well you wouldn't notice it much.

When I first met her she told me she was knitting beers for her grandchildren. I waited awhile longer in the conversation until it became clear she was knitting bears !

Her little granddaughter asked her why she always said 'hey' - she maintained she didn't, but she does hey.

Those Tourism Newfoundland commercials portray Newfoundland exactly as it is away from St Jaaans.

Try and take time (you're retired) for St Pierre et Miquelon, very intriguing.

"lucretia borgia" wrote

Just to return the mystery to my persona, the story involves my putting a curse on a home renovations retailer, too.

Dawne

Come by Chance got a bit spoiled when they built a (now defunct) oil refinery there, sometime in the 70s I think.

I saw a programme about the base at Argentia awhile ago, there were service people who returned to Nfland for retirement as a result of the years they were posted there.

Please fill in the details for us !

"lucretia borgia" wrote

Wouldn't dream of it (see part about being woman of mystery). I leave it to certain vivid imaginations, but don't be surprised if people at RONA think they hear something baying at the moon. Dawne

Mark Orkin wrote three books in the late '80s or early '90s (IIRC). "Canajun, Eh?", "French Canadien, Heh?" (for anglo-phone speakers of Canadian French) and "Amuricun, Huh?" Each purported to teach you how to speak that variety of the language. One of my favourites in the first was our national police force - the "Arcee empee"; while in the second, it was 'moseetoe' (moi aussi tot).

Isn't language, in all its varieties, fun?

MargW

Well I do have relatives living in Weed (in Northern California) and there is a town of Manteca (lard in Spanish)nearby but those doesn't sound so picturesque compared to some of these others! MelissaD

Awwwww... is there a LNS in Climax then?

Yeah, his Mum lived a couple of doors up from my Aunty Marie and Spike visited her very often until her death.

That's what I thought. Oh well, it's pan hellenic to me anyway.

And speaking of hellenes and helens and all that, did you ever see the movie, 'Troy'? DD was watching it on DVD at the weekend and *howling* at the screen because they hollywooded the story so that Paris and Helen lived happily ever after. Together!

Why do they do that, I wonder?

Why? (Innocently) Did you want him to take you to Climax?

Good old Spike Milligna, the well-known typing error... He wanted his gravestone to be engraved with the words "I told you I was ill"

As a young woman, I loved the Goon Show. At that time I was working at the hospital in Windsor( mid-50s). Spike was living in Windsor at the time, or so we were all told, and had a child named Sinbad. Ouside the house one would see a Victorian looking wicker pram. We all wondered if the kid would be "Sin" or "Bad" for short.

Gill

My niece was convulsed with laughter yesterday as she told us of her friend, Jodie, who has just named her new son 'Hamish Samuel'.

Ham samwich?

I do need a vacation! DH is away in the high Arctic on an extended research trip, and I am here for two more weeks with the tots by myself. I'd love to go back to Newfoundland. The last time I was there was in 1997, for the 500th anniversary celebrations. Truly breathtaking, and the first time I've seen snow on May 24th!

Louisa

a child named Sinbad.

According to wikipedia: "Milligan had three children with his first wife June Marlow: Laura, Se=E1n and S=EDle ... He had one daughter with his second wife, Patricia Ridgeway: the actress Jane Milligan ... In 1975 Milligan fathered a son, James, in an affair with Margaret Maughan. Another child, a daughter Romany, is suspected to have been born at the same time by a Canadian journalist named Roberta Watt."

Sorry, Gill, I don't see a Sinbad in there! :) Maybe it was the Sile? How is that name pronounced????

Joan

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