n. Australia, except for Perth.
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G'day Bruce! Welcome to the Greatest country in the world!
Except for Perth!
Quite right! Except for bleeding Perth! Bunch of wombat thieves.
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place. Canadian town about to shake off its slumber and burst into the twentieth century. The party phone lines are being removed and the coal-fired steam train, filmed in many cowboy flicks and one of the few still in use in the civilized world, is on its last runs.
Mom and pop stores, self-taught hairdressers, and migrant labourer shacks will soon be replaced by fancy corporate establishments, and a name-brand eating place is in the planning stages.
First settled by Cree indians, Stettler was overrun in 1845 by Europeans who thought the area would prosper if they ran the place instead. They were wrong for over a century but discovery of major deposits of shale, sandstone, and fist-sized boulders in 1956 saved the town from absolute desolation as there was a niche use of these products in the concrete yard-novelty industry.
Grain farming and repairing asphalt are pursued locally and The Stettler Groundkeeper is purused avidly.
There are no significant sports teams, high schools, or marching bands but a horse rodeo is held quadrennially on the horse rodeoing grounds
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They make a lot of cowboy movies near Stettler don't they?
Yep. Don't have to change a thing.
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n. Horrible-looking multi-clawed crustacean prized as food by maritimers unable to access adequate supplies of beef.
By geeze there Billy. I could really go for some lobster claw soup just now, by here, eh, Billy me boy? Think I'll quay the dory and tie on a bib? How's by you?
Are you coming on to me?
v.To be thoroughly stopped, embarrassed, or thwarted in a scoring attempt.
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The Slovaks thought they were going to score on a breakaway but they were fucaled, badly.
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n. Any business transaction that makes millions for apparently aimless, non-executive types.
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Come on. We'll sell dad's beer cap collection and buy a roadside petting zoo. Weasels! Badgers! It'll be great!
Sounds like a duck deal.
Exactly. You in?
n. Canadian expression for a fellow who's useless.
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That new deckhand be a right dory rower. I wouldn't want to rely on him to pull traps in a moisturizer.
Too right Bruce.
You from Australia?
Yeah. But not from Perth.
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adj. Atlantic Canadian expression meaning excellent. Used by fishermen, schooner builders and itinerant organ grinders.
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That boat there be codriffic! Ye hear me now there. I'd sail her down the mouth of an Atlantic moisturizer, and no mistake.
You lying Mahone Bay, Nova Scotia lobster roll! You don't know a schooner from an anchored dory.