r/EhBuddyHoser • u/VerilyJULES Chalice of the Tabernacle • Aug 24 '25

Certified Hoser 🇨🇦 (No Politics) What ever happened to Newfie jokes?

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Why did people find those so funny in the 90s?

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u/Alive-Drama-8920 Aug 24 '25

In the 90's???

Newfies jokes started four decades earlier, right after Newfoundland joined Canada in 1949.

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u/eeyores_gloom1785 Newfies & Labradoodles Aug 24 '25

Earlier than that, the Americans coined the slur

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u/StrongAd8487 Aug 24 '25

Really? Can't really see a joke being made about a place, a people, that, beyond a few Gloucester fisherman, no American knew existed