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As for this comic...
I probably need to address the use of the word 'redneck' in this comic.
There are those people who staunchly claim that Canada doesn't have rednecks - that rednecks are an American thing exclusively. Those people have often never been to Canada, though.
Certainly people are aware of the uncultured backwoods Canadian stereotype via Bob and Doug, Red Green and the like. This is certainly a real thing, and some might consider them Canadian rednecks. The Bob and Doug types, though, are a northern Ontario phenomenon. Down in southern Ontario, we have our own special brand of rural poverty that more closely resembles its American counterpart. I boldly defend my right to call them rednecks, but if you cannot accept that, I apologize.
I also will take this moment, though, to remind you that Trailer Park Boys was a Canadian show.
QED.
Puck 604
Chapter: Jinkies!Characters: Colin Daphne Miranda Phoebe Puck Tyler (aka Taylor)Tags: gas station lost redneck
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As for this comic...
I probably need to address the use of the word 'redneck' in this comic.
There are those people who staunchly claim that Canada doesn't have rednecks - that rednecks are an American thing exclusively. Those people have often never been to Canada, though.
Certainly people are aware of the uncultured backwoods Canadian stereotype via Bob and Doug, Red Green and the like. This is certainly a real thing, and some might consider them Canadian rednecks. The Bob and Doug types, though, are a northern Ontario phenomenon. Down in southern Ontario, we have our own special brand of rural poverty that more closely resembles its American counterpart. I boldly defend my right to call them rednecks, but if you cannot accept that, I apologize.
I also will take this moment, though, to remind you that Trailer Park Boys was a Canadian show.
QED.
Whether of not they’re called rednecks, all nations have them.In Australia, ours are called ‘supporters of the One Nation party’.
At least in Australia you’ve got your own great words, like ‘bogan’, to articulate the concept. Australia is emphatically its own thing, both culturally and georaphically. Canada, meanwhile, is this sad sort of geographical/cultural parenthetical. We are not American (and we’ll remind you of that at every turn), but we’re not really distinct enough to have our own speech pattern or vocabulary or culture.
According to who? Yes, we’re broadly similar, in particular as you go west. But you guys are you.
Who else would have created Red Green? Scott Pilgrim? Donald Sutherland?
Case in point. Bogans are technically only found in western Sydney, but in reality are found all over Australia – see the aforementioned supporters of One Nation.
Good to know.
I find this One Nation business highly ironic. I’m sure the term means something quite different in Australia from the paranoid delusions of the conspiracy-theory-oriented in America. For them, the term One Nation is just another way of saying One World Nation, and we don’t want to live in no planetary brotherhood with nobody. Oddly, the leader at the root of that conspiracy was right-leaning George H.W. Bush and his talk of the “World Order” during the Iraqi invasion and occupation of Kuwait and the ensuing Desert Storm…
But that’s not what he meant!!!
Yes, I understand that’s what people heard, but it’s clearly not what he meant.
Says who on our vocabulary? I wrote a fifteen page report on the Canadian language plus another 4 pages of footnotes and bibliography. We have a language it just diversifies more from region to region. Like Saskatchewan called a hooded sweatshirt a “bunny hug”.
I am the owner of multiple “Words of Canada” dictionaries. I know all about bunny hugs, matrimonial cake, Chesterfields and Vico.
I will submit that those weird, wacky Canadian words are highly regional, unintelligible to other Canadians a few provinces over, and don’t really count.
They’re also all really old, and many are fading from existence. like Chesterfield, that proud
Canada-only word for a couch. My wife’s grandmother was the only person I ever heard use the word. She was 98 at the time.
I don’t know. I’d call recognizing that everyone should have access to healthcare and not locking up a fifth of your population is a pretty good cultural difference.
I wonder what mystery they are go into solve.
Have you forgotten “4 ON THE FLOOR”?
I have not forgotten “Four on the Floor” because I never saw that show. Can’t forget a show you never really knew existed. Looking it up, I am vaguely aware of the concept of Mr. Canoehead. But that’s it.
Maybe he just doesn’t understand how such bad navigation happens. The convention center’s over there, after all.
I wonder what mystery they are go into solve.
Solve a mystery? THIS crew? Pfffffffffffttttttt!!!!
Dang it, I wanted to drink that coke too….
Well, we may not get to a legit mystery. More a ‘mystery lite’.
there will be running. bonus points for ‘shaggy’ riding ‘scooby’ like a motorcycle. lots of running. a door gag isn’t as funny in this medium, it might be amusing to reference it.
it will be one sexy bike.
I feel a glare through my window,,,
Well, we won’t wander wholly into straight-up parody. I’d really have to break the reality of the Puck universe to do a lot of that. Rather, it’s going to remain fully rooted in “reality” but still hopefully hit a number of key beats. It’s parody-lite.
“Oh, not this again…”
“Why this reminds me of the Star Trek convention disaster of aught-six…”
That there pales in the furry con tragedy of ought seven.
I remember that one. Fur everywhere. Tragic.
And there was the superhero con riot on which superheroine was sexuer. Salacious Girl or Power Vixen. So many nerds hurt. Broken glasses and retainers as far as the eye could seen.
Like that Blues Brothers convention I alluded to. You just KNOW somebody put a car through that venue.
Every darnn year.
I would have said Canadian rednecks are called Hosers.
Here’s the thinly kept Canadian secret: no one uses that word.
Maybe we called people hosers back in the 70’s, but if we did, it’s a term that died in that decade, just like ‘groovy’.
I admit that it would be useful to still have around.
But.. then who am I supposed to tell to “take off”? Ah jeepers cripes alfrighty, I’m gonna have to go south of the border for my fallback stereotype. (Nobody I’ve met from Wisconsin talks that way except one, and he’s a comedian).
We also don’t say ‘take off’ either. Though maybe somebody does?
It’s like how I always got annoyed by Americans and their ‘aboot’ nonsense until I legit saw a Canadian say ‘aboot’. Turns out someone was feeding the stereotype…
That was still Bob and Doug for my exposure, so that was probably pure stereotype. (Mostly as a take-that at the broadcast requiring at least 2 minutes of Canadian content… which was baffling to a team that was mostly from Canada anyway, so they went whole-hog and it was a surprising success).
Is “beauty” used? I’ve heard that outside their context but maybe that was just the 80s?
Though the “saying goodbye, fifteen times” is true in, but not exclusive to Wisconsin.
Just thought of it.. from stereotype to ‘scareotype’.
“Beauty” is used. Sometimes shortened to just “byoot” … though I’ve heard far less of that as time has gone on.
I personally find Wisconsin to be shockingly similar to Both the Canadian accent and Canadian culture. The only difference is that the Wisconsin accent is more nasal and the Canadian one more deadpan, but there’s a similarity there.
Or maybe he just doesn’t give two flying f***s. 😛
Highly likely third option.
The expressions in this strip are priceless, especially Daphne’s smile and Robin and Miranda’s identical looks of worry.
When there’s not a lot of dialogue, the faces gotta do all the talking.
“Redneck” is no longer an automatic insult down here, and implies some degree of pride in application. For example, we cheerfully refer to our Gulf beaches as the “Redneck Riviera.” Now, call someone a peckerwood, and you’ll get your ass kicked.
Jeff Foxworthy was the turning point, I believe.
To quote Jeff Foxworthy, a redneck is a person with “a glorious lack of sophistication”. An example he uses is that “sophisticated people invest their money in stock portfolios. Rednecks invest their money…in commemorative plates.”
So, in effect, rednecks can be from anywhere in the world. 🙂
I love commemorative plates.
Draw your own conclusions.
Rednecks in Canada? There are such people? Always thought those were a south of the border thing. Farmers, ranchers, cowboys, farmhands, fishermen, lobstermen, steel workers, auto plant workers, but not rednecks.
There is a big section in southern Ontario that I like to call the “Canadian Deep South”. They historically grew tobacco down there. It’s warm by Canadian standards, the people rough, and the culture decidedly redneck. Let’s put it this way: it’s the only place in Canada where I’ve observed people flying the Confederate flag.
If they don’t qualify as rednecks, then the term is meaningless.
Phoebe’s smile in panel 2 is just wonderful. It’s the plaintive smile of the uncomfortable. It says, “I mean no harm. I just want out of here. Don’t kill me, please”
This is the smile I wear when talking to guys like this. I really don’t want to die.
Oops. I meant Daphne. Although Phoebe has a similar one, she has the benefit of her smile being the most sincere
Yeah, that makes more sense.
I would like to submit “Letterkenny” as another shining example of Ontario rural life – broadly centred on the Listowell region…
Never heard of it, but looking it up … yeah. Looks reflective of reality.
@[ElectricGecko]:
I’ve some bad news.
The Andromeda Galaxy is going to remain ignorant of “Scoobt-Doo” for the foreseeable future.
It’s NOT their fault, though.
The DANGED “Speed_Of_Light” limitation is going to delay their reception of the first episode for about 2.48 million years, unless they use some kind of “FTL-Drive” to come to US.
Dang fabric of reality, always limiting my fun.
I **KNOW**, right???!?
Well, some of the Scooby-details are kinda way off.
How dare you say that! Panel two could be ripped right from the show!
I don’t think Velma had horns.
The wonders of cosmetics and creative hair design. We never knew.
An interesting fact about a starfish is that it’s mouth is in the center of it’s body. Strategic alignment of two or three starfish, when made into a bikini could make Traci even more pleased with such summer beach fashion.
Scandalous.
Not to mention the inhabitants of Newfoundland being a distinct subspecies from rednecks. They’re most closely related to late 19th century Irish in language.
My Dad could do a perfect imitation of a Newfie, I just sound like Bob and Doug making fun of them. But then again I was only 3 when we left Placentia behind.
Newfies are their own thing. Not rednecks, to my mind. Too much Celt in them for that.
The gas man is not amused.
He’s hard to please, seemingly.
In defense of Gas Man Grumpy, I have found service station personnel much more helpful after I spend a little money. They’re in business, after all.
I don’t suppose this gas station is haunted?
I would also submit that “Acadians” are a Canadian version of Rednecks (just joking, they are a wonderful and proud people). Same for those on the Gaspe Penninsula (more French than the native inhabitants of France). Heck, rural Quebec has it’s own distinct society of Rednecks (see what I did there?). Of course, we can’t count out the entire populations of Sasketchewan and Alberta these days, with Manitoba being not far behind.
Note – I do NOT immediately associate political leanings with Redneckism, but there IS a distinct correlation. You can be a banjo-pickin’, moonshine swiggin’, oil-field workin’ Roughneck, and STILL be a “commie socialist” leftist snowflake (I know several).
Up here in Soviet Canuckistan, even the rightest of right wingers is dismissed in the U.S. as a commie.
Yes another example of the breakdown of the U.S. 5th party system.
Or is it the sixth? I loose track.
It just struck me, given all the in-the-middle-of-nowheres Scoob and the Gang traveled as whatever-the-hell-they-were-meant-to-bes this was likely a frequent if seldom-scripted ocurrance. Daphne may have even needed to threaten Fred.
-Frank
Lots we didn’t see in that show.
Such as their friend Reginald who’s always jsut wandered off, taken a nap or was badly car sick just before the interesting bit started.
Colin might as well have said “Tell me, who was the greatest philosopher, Hegel or Kant?” 😉
I’m voting third party for Kierkegaard.
Kirky for the win!
I had a cat named Kirkegaard. Yes, Kirky the cat spelled it differently.
Party, party, party! :)) Frankly, I can see many people being at a loss for words after what “Fred” said. I mean he went on too long.
Hey, he has yokel social anxiety, man. Don’t judge.
Don’t you think it’s odd how some meanings have many words? Such as: yokel, bumpkin, rube, hick, etc.? I like to make little word lists instead of counting sheep to get to sleep.
Mostly it’s terms of scorn for groups of people. Think of all the many colorful terms for the homeless.
Sad but true. 🙁
Bob and Dough were Maritimers, EG. Newphies.
Basically a lot like rednecks, but friendlier, funnier, and with fish instead of cows.
Nonetheless, I think the Redneck label is one that can be spread around a bit. I favour Jeff Foxworthy’s definition: “A glorious absence of sophistication.”
If they were Newfies, then that was a terrible attempt at a Newfie accent. Terrible.
Did myself some research.
Though fictional, the brothers Mackenzie are purportedly born to Edmonton, Alberta.
I agree with you on the accent, on listening to it again, though I DID have my reasons for thinking of them as maritimers all these decades (if not Newfoundlanders specifically). The clothes, the toques, the beer drinking, the apparent poor education, apparent unemployment, the… well the slang, if not the actual accent, and the Scottish surname.
(For the record, I love Newphies! Every one I’ve ever met has been funny, cheerful, friendly, and a delight to be around… also good sports about a little fun-poking now and then. 😉 )
Ultimately, they’re a self-parody of Canadian stereotypes, as much how we look through US-eyes as much as our own. 😛
Prairie boys my a—. They were obviously stereotypes of Northern Ontario guys through and through, no matter what they said.
Really starting to sound like we’ve got the same kind of Canadian redneck sprinkles all over the country, isn’t it? ^_^
Canada is nothing if not very consistent. I’ve been coast to coast. It varies, certainly, but many of the same people and problems and dynamics recur throughout.
This is Ed, the bitter old caretaker of the gas station. He has a plan, and he’s hoping to get away with it (unless some kids starts meddling). Has anybody mentioned the Spectre Of Pump 2 yet?
No? You can mention it, though.