I lived in Newfoundland on the east coast of Canada for 20 years. Other Canadians at that time told 'Newfie' jokes to amuse themselves. 'Newfie' jokes ridiculed Newfoundlanders as ignorant and stupid people, thereby serving a similar purpose to 'Irish' and 'Polak' jokes in other countries. Thankfully, that practice is now over in Canada. However, what remains from that era is a bit of wisdom Newfoundlanders learned by observing and listening to other Canadians. The wisdom concerns the downward slope of the country from east to west. How else to explain that all the loose screws eventually rolled down to British Columbia. ?