I like looking at old photographs. This one is of the Northern Ranger in St. Anthony harbour, Newfoundland. The year was 1951; same year Ike Turner recorded Rocket 88. Newfoundland had been a part of Canada for just two years. They were just starting to get screwed.
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I have relatives in Newfoundland who are still very bitter about this. They have a portrait of the the queen, you know, whatsername, in their living room. To tell the truth, I haven't heard anything very good about that queen. They're also pissed that union with Canada brought them closer to the US, which, as we all know, means that Trinity East is about to be overrun by marauding bands of ghetto youth. No, really.
Newfoundlanders could have chosen to join America but they chose Canada. Too bad for Newfoundlanders Canada later chose America. It is the very definition of, "Damned if you do, damned if you don't."
So.
Who got screwed longer, in the end?
Ike.
Or.
The Newfies?
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