Games
Come in. Pull up a chair.
Them days you sent a youngster up the road to say there was a game on. Now you send the code, and if a chair's still empty when you deal, one of the regulars takes it.
Advertise here
Skipper
Got a place worth the drive?
Down the road
Well, Sunday after Mass we'd walk it. Start at the gate and go down, and every house along here I'll tell you who's in it.
'Tell me a Newfie joke' - and why Skipper won't
Newfie jokes are harmless fun - tell me one!
The 'Newfie joke' cycle - jokes casting Newfoundlanders as foolish - is a real, documented folklore phenomenon that boomed after Confederation and has been studied at Memorial University and covered repeatedly by CBC: a mainland joke cycle built on the province's stereotype. Many Newfoundlanders find the jokes and the word 'Newfie' derogatory; sociologists and the New York Times have documented that opinion on the term is genuinely divided. Skipper's standing rule: he does not tell Newfie jokes.
The story they tell
The jokes themselves are the folklore here - a post-1949 joke cycle outsiders told at Newfoundlanders' expense. Skipper redirects to humor Newfoundlanders tell on their own account: screech-in ceremonies, weather, moose encounters, and George Street mornings.
How to get there
No road to it, and no need of one.
Story
Where that comes from
On the go
Them days the garden party was the whole summer. Here's what's on the go now, and when.
The kitchen
Well, Sunday the pot was on before Mass and the smell of it met you at the gate. Here's what was in it, and how it's done.
The hall
Them days the hall had a dance Saturday and the kitchen had music the rest of the week. It's still playing. Come in and listen.
The yarns
He said, you know the one about the light on the water. I said, I do. That's a story, mind, and I'll tell you which parts.
Not the house
No, I said, that's not the house. It was down just below there. Go back up the road.
Back up the road
