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A Sault Star columnist, Fred Loader, tells these jokes about "Fredloadians".
Could you shed some more light on this information? Elisabeth? like with an example f.i.? If possible?
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fresian (the fresian language is the closed to english--it is possible to compose sentances in fresian that could pass for english) are the butt of belgium jokes...(or so said the NYTimes some years ago)
Why do fresians were bandage on their faces on Monday?
Sunday is their day to eat with knives and Forks.
(but i saw that same joke applied to Newfies a few years later)
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Ha ha, Helen , that one is an allround running one.  multi appliable. Frisian has Engilsh words but I don't know the language, as they claim it is a seperate language, And many words in Frisian are also similar to Swedish and Danish like barn for child. The Belgian- Frisian connection I don't see. They are up in the far!!! north ( all of the midget country being mayby 400 miles in the vertical stretch)Nee,(nay) they might share jokes with Germany , but I doubt that.
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bairn is also a rarely used (except in scotland where it is not uncommon) word for child in english too. well scot's english-- it's said like bear n (bear the animal with an N at the end) just as trap is used in NYC area--in a very limited way, (and its been seen on Engrish.com, in japan!) for steps/stairs. the palisades (west side of hudson river) are full of 'trap rock' (basalt that cooled into a step/stair like formation (see "devils stair case" northern ireland for a classic formation of basalt.) i learned as a child that 'traps' were steps(stairs).
--stoops (for exterior set of stairs on a house) is another dutch word that is very common. (use has extended beyond NYC) but there is no joking about this!
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-- stoops (for exterior set of stairs on a house) is another dutch word that is very common. (use has extended beyond NYC) but there is no joking about this!
Way beyond, Helen.
Back a couple of years ago when I was in school in Dixie there was a girl named Carolyn Screws...no! That was another girl!...anyway, there was a girl at school named Carolyn Porch. So we silly boys ran around snickering and chanted, "Porch is a stoop!.
She wasn't. She was a prettty girl and we were just trying to get her attention. We Dixie boys had a way with women. 
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Natuurlijk! Silly stupid boys stooping (fig.) over a yet pretty girl named Porch. (Well... it is an inviting name I must admit) Silly boys are as world wide spread as silly jokes.  But yes,Helen, trap is unaltered Dutch and stoop is changed from stoep. (phonetically alike) Come to think of it.Why are Dutch people called Dutch? Nothing to do with Holland or the Netherlands. From Ditch maybe? We have millions of them large and narrow.Water water everywhere.From Duits? Yes . I remember it was Diets (pr. Deets ) in middle Dutch .Something to do with Germany after all. I guess zmjhezd would know but would he visit silly threads like this?
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Q: How many poets does it take to change a light bulb?
A: Three. One to curse the darkness, one to light a candle... ... and one to change the bulb.
One for the trekkies:
Q: How many vulcans does it take to change a light bulb?
A: One, anymore would be illogical.
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Q: How many poets does it take to change a light bulb?
A: Three. One to curse the darkness, one to light a candle... ... and one to change the bulb.
This is the *** lightbulb joke, Olly!
The voting hasn't yet been completed but it's a nice one!
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A Sault Star columnist, Fred Loader, tells these jokes about "Fredloadians".
Could you shed some more light on this information? Elisabeth? like with an example f.i.? If possible?
You know - like the Fredloadian who thought Don Mills was the mayor of Scarborough. (That's a Canadian joke - Don Mills and Scarborough are both boroughs of Toronto.)
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Yes, Elisabeth , now the ugly truth must come out. I haven't the slightest idea what a Fredloadian is :  Right.I can look it up.I will. Here's a parrot joke , maybe also a long time international runner.A man buys a parrot to have some conversational company. The pet shop man assures him this one' s real talker. Back home that proves to be true, only all he does is cursing. The man tries to get decent words from him but he just goes on. So the man gets angry and says: "One more curse and I' ll put you in the fridge." "Damn ye dude", says the parrot. So the man puts him in the icebox . After sufficient minutes he takes out the stiffenig bird and asks " And? Are we done with the cursing now?" "Allright.....Allright" , the bird answers with a thin shivering voice : "But tell me, what has the turkey ever done to you?"
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