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She's a dory, not a taxi.

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Games

Come in. Pull up a chair.

Trivia

The Board

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.

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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.

Gazeebow Unit

Three fifteen-year-olds from Airport Heights who made St. John's hip-hop history in 2005 rapping about trikes, bikes and the gazebo.

Gazeebow Unit is a rap group formed in the summer of 2005 by three 15-year-olds from Airport Heights in east-end St. John's - Mike $hanx, Alpabit and M to the C - named for the neighbourhood gazebo near Philly's Convenience. Their low-budget videos went viral in 2005, before YouTube was big, while the members were still in Grade 9, and the attention reached folklore scholars: Memorial University's Philip Hiscock and linguist Sandra Clarke studied the group, publishing in the Journal of English Linguistics (2009) on how their local language styled young working-class 'skeet' identity. CBC even used their music in 2006 to promote the NL comedy series Hatching, Matching and Dispatching. In December 2011 they were pulled 'out of the gazebo' for a special guest appearance at Donnie Dumphy's Christmas show at Club One in St. John's.

The story they tell

In the yarn version they are skeets immortalized by accident; the MUN folklorists say they were parodists the whole time - 'strategic inauthenticity' with a beat.

Some 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