Cajuns?
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Cajuns?
Can some one please tell me why Cajuns never get made fun of? There's liberals, which get made fun of; there's conservatives, which get made fun of; there's rednecks, which get made fun of; there's yankees, whom get made fun of, there's white people, who get made fun of; there's black people, who get made fun of; there's Mexican's, who get made fun of; there's Jews, which get made fun of; there's Catholic, Muslims, Hindu's and Buddhists, all of whom get made fun of...
Then there's cajuns, who are probably the funniest of them all... Can some one please tell me why I have never heard of a single cajun joke? How is it cajun's never get made fun of? Where's the cajun Jeff Foxworthy? What do I call a cajun in order to make fun of him?
Why doesn't anybody make fun of cajuns?
Then there's cajuns, who are probably the funniest of them all... Can some one please tell me why I have never heard of a single cajun joke? How is it cajun's never get made fun of? Where's the cajun Jeff Foxworthy? What do I call a cajun in order to make fun of him?
Why doesn't anybody make fun of cajuns?
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From: lowsyana
Boudreaux and Thibodeaux worked together and both were laid off, so they went to the unemployment office.
When asked his occupation, Boudreaux answered, "Panty Stitcher. I sew da elastic onto ladies' cotton panties." The clerk looked up Panty Stitcher. Finding it classified as unskilled labor, she gave him $300 a week unemployment pay.
Thibodeaux was asked his occupation. "Diesel Fitter," he replied. Since diesel fitter was a skilled job, the clerk gave Thibodeaux $600 a week.
When Boudreaux found out he was furious. He stormed back into the office to find out why his friend and coworker was collecting double his pay. The clerk explained, "Panty Stitchers are unskilled and diesel fitters are skilled labor."
"What skill?" yelled Boudreaux. "I sew the elastic on da panties, Thibodeaux puts dem over his head and says: "Yeah, dese 'il fit 'er."
When asked his occupation, Boudreaux answered, "Panty Stitcher. I sew da elastic onto ladies' cotton panties." The clerk looked up Panty Stitcher. Finding it classified as unskilled labor, she gave him $300 a week unemployment pay.
Thibodeaux was asked his occupation. "Diesel Fitter," he replied. Since diesel fitter was a skilled job, the clerk gave Thibodeaux $600 a week.
When Boudreaux found out he was furious. He stormed back into the office to find out why his friend and coworker was collecting double his pay. The clerk explained, "Panty Stitchers are unskilled and diesel fitters are skilled labor."
"What skill?" yelled Boudreaux. "I sew the elastic on da panties, Thibodeaux puts dem over his head and says: "Yeah, dese 'il fit 'er."
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From: lowsyana
here's one that is like the 'you're a redneck if..."
You know you are from Louisiana if...
* The crawdad mounds in your front yard have overtaken the grass.
* You greet people with "Howzyamomma'an'dem?" and hear back "Dey fine!"
* Every so often, you have waterfront property.
* When giving directions you use words like "uptown", "downtown", "backatown", "riverside", "lakeside", "other side of the bayou" or "other side of the levee.
* When you refer to a geographical location "way up North", you are referring to places like Shreveport, Little Rock or Memphis, "where it gets real cold"!
* Your burial plot is six feet over rather than six feet under.
* You've ever had Community Coffee.
* You can pronounce Tchoupitoulas but can't spell it. (also, Thibideaux, Opelousas, Ponchartrain, Ouachita, Atchafalaya,)
* You don't worry when you see ships riding higher in the river than the top of your house.
* You judge a po-boy by the number of napkins used.
* The waitress at your local sandwich shop tells you a fried oyster po-boy "dressed" is healthier than a Caesar salad.
* You know the definition of "dressed".
* You can eat Popeye's, Haydel's and Zapp's for lunch and wash it down with Barq's and several Abitas, without losing it all on your stoop.
* The four seasons in your year are: crawfish, shrimp, crab and King Cake.
* The smell of a crawfish boil turns you on more than HBO.
* You "wrench" your hands in the sink with an onion bar to get the crawfish smell off.
* You're not afraid when someone wants to "ax you something".
* You go by "ya-mom-en-`dems" on Good Friday for family supper.
* You don't learn until high school that Mardi Gras is not a national holiday.
* You don't realize until high school what a "county" is.
* You push little old ladies out of the way to catch Mardi Gras beads.
* You believe that purple, green and gold look good together (and you will even eat things those colors)
* You go to buy a new winter coat (what most people refer to as windbreakers) and throw your arms up in the air to make sure it allows enough room to catch Mardi Gras beads.
* Your last name isn't pronounced the way it's spelled.
* You know what a nutria rat is but you still pick it to represent your baseball team.
* You have spent a summer afternoon on the Lake Pontchartrain seawall catching blue crabs.
* You describe a color as "K&B Purple".
* You like your rice and politics dirty.
* When given the choice for Governor between a KKK leader and Edwin Edwards, it's a difficult decision.
* You worry about a deceased family member returning in spring floods.
* You pronounce the largest city in the state as "Nawlins".
* A friend gets in trouble for roaches in his car and you wonder if it was palmettos or those little ones that go after the French Fries that fell under the seat.
* You know those big roaches can fly, but you're able to sleep at night anyway.
* You prefer skiing on the bayou.
* You assume everyone has mosquito swarms in their backyard.
* You realize the rainforest is less humid than Louisiana.
You know you are from Louisiana if...
* The crawdad mounds in your front yard have overtaken the grass.
* You greet people with "Howzyamomma'an'dem?" and hear back "Dey fine!"
* Every so often, you have waterfront property.
* When giving directions you use words like "uptown", "downtown", "backatown", "riverside", "lakeside", "other side of the bayou" or "other side of the levee.
* When you refer to a geographical location "way up North", you are referring to places like Shreveport, Little Rock or Memphis, "where it gets real cold"!
* Your burial plot is six feet over rather than six feet under.
* You've ever had Community Coffee.
* You can pronounce Tchoupitoulas but can't spell it. (also, Thibideaux, Opelousas, Ponchartrain, Ouachita, Atchafalaya,)
* You don't worry when you see ships riding higher in the river than the top of your house.
* You judge a po-boy by the number of napkins used.
* The waitress at your local sandwich shop tells you a fried oyster po-boy "dressed" is healthier than a Caesar salad.
* You know the definition of "dressed".
* You can eat Popeye's, Haydel's and Zapp's for lunch and wash it down with Barq's and several Abitas, without losing it all on your stoop.
* The four seasons in your year are: crawfish, shrimp, crab and King Cake.
* The smell of a crawfish boil turns you on more than HBO.
* You "wrench" your hands in the sink with an onion bar to get the crawfish smell off.
* You're not afraid when someone wants to "ax you something".
* You go by "ya-mom-en-`dems" on Good Friday for family supper.
* You don't learn until high school that Mardi Gras is not a national holiday.
* You don't realize until high school what a "county" is.
* You push little old ladies out of the way to catch Mardi Gras beads.
* You believe that purple, green and gold look good together (and you will even eat things those colors)
* You go to buy a new winter coat (what most people refer to as windbreakers) and throw your arms up in the air to make sure it allows enough room to catch Mardi Gras beads.
* Your last name isn't pronounced the way it's spelled.
* You know what a nutria rat is but you still pick it to represent your baseball team.
* You have spent a summer afternoon on the Lake Pontchartrain seawall catching blue crabs.
* You describe a color as "K&B Purple".
* You like your rice and politics dirty.
* When given the choice for Governor between a KKK leader and Edwin Edwards, it's a difficult decision.
* You worry about a deceased family member returning in spring floods.
* You pronounce the largest city in the state as "Nawlins".
* A friend gets in trouble for roaches in his car and you wonder if it was palmettos or those little ones that go after the French Fries that fell under the seat.
* You know those big roaches can fly, but you're able to sleep at night anyway.
* You prefer skiing on the bayou.
* You assume everyone has mosquito swarms in their backyard.
* You realize the rainforest is less humid than Louisiana.
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From: MOUNT VERNON, WA
I play golf with a guy that's cajun. We have to check his score all the time b/c we sware he uses some kind of wierd cajun math. We make fun of him all the time. We also have to be somewhat nice though b/c he flies in 150 lbs of crawfish every year and has a big crawfish boil for us.
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I work with a couple coonasses, they are a riot when they get together. You gotta be around them to understand them and they have both turned in vacation requests until retirement for Mardi Gras.
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I'm both a Cajun and redneck (growing up and being born down in Sulphur Lousiana) Your right, not many cajun jokes but some. I love the one about a crawfish boil, and yes CRAWFISH, not Crayfish, what the [Edit] is a crayfish? But yeah and when you eat aligator tail, and crawfish, and king cake (common guys I'm way to far north, I'm drooling over here) I def. miss it, but dad's job made us move around a lot when we where younger. Looking to get back down there some day, I miss the cook outs, and boy do the southern boys know how to do a cook out 
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From: Sugarland,College Station, Mason, TX
You might be a cajun if.......
1. You start an angel food cake with a roux.
2. You sit down to eat boiled crawfish and your host says "Don't eat the dead ones" and you know what he means.
3. You gave up Tabasco for Lent.
4. You refer to Louisiana winters as "gumbo weather."
5. You can look at a rice field and tell how much gravy it will take to cover the rice.
6. You think the head of the United Nations is Boudreaux-Boudreaux-Guillory.
7. Watching Wild Kingdom inspires you to write a cookbook.
8. You think boudin, hog-head cheese and a Budweiser is a bland diet.
9. You think Ground Hog's day and Boucherie Day are the same holiday.
10. You take a bite of 5-alarm Texas chili and reach for the Tabasco.
11. Fred's Lounge in Mamou means more to you than the Grand Ole Opry.
12. You have an "envie" for something instead of a craving.
13. You use two or more pirogues to cover your newly planted tomatoes to protect them from a late frost.
14. The horsepower of your outboard motor is greater than the motor in your car.
15. You pass up a trip abroad to go to the Crawfish Festival in Breaux Bridge.
16. Your children's favorite bedtime story begins with "First you make a roux..."
17.Your school teacher teaches the 4 basic food groups as: Boiled seafood, Broiled seafood, Fried seafood, and Beer.
18. You're asked to name the 4 seasons and reply "Onions, celery, bell pepper, and Tony's."
19. You let your black coffee cool and find it has gelled.
20. You describe a 7 course meal as a 6-pack and a pound of boudin!
21. You describe a yard of boudin and cracklings as "breakfast."
22. Your mom/spouse announces each morning, "Well, I've got the rice cooking, what will we have for dinner?"
23. None of your potential vacation destinations are North of the old Mississippi River bridge ***(A bridge in Baton Rouge on Hwy 190)**
24. You think of gravy as a beverage.
25. You learned bourre' the hard way - holding yourself upright in your crib.
26. You consider the 4 seasons as: winter, spring, summer, and hunting!!
27. Your high school band's rendition of the National Anthem begins with, "Jambalaya, crawfish pie, fillet gumbo..."
28. You stand up when they play "Jolie Blonde."
29. Any of your dessert recipes call for jalapenos.
30. You consider Breaux Bridge the capital of the state, and Lafayette the capital of the nation.
31. You think the Mason-Dixon line is at Bunkie.
1. You start an angel food cake with a roux.
2. You sit down to eat boiled crawfish and your host says "Don't eat the dead ones" and you know what he means.
3. You gave up Tabasco for Lent.
4. You refer to Louisiana winters as "gumbo weather."
5. You can look at a rice field and tell how much gravy it will take to cover the rice.
6. You think the head of the United Nations is Boudreaux-Boudreaux-Guillory.
7. Watching Wild Kingdom inspires you to write a cookbook.
8. You think boudin, hog-head cheese and a Budweiser is a bland diet.
9. You think Ground Hog's day and Boucherie Day are the same holiday.
10. You take a bite of 5-alarm Texas chili and reach for the Tabasco.
11. Fred's Lounge in Mamou means more to you than the Grand Ole Opry.
12. You have an "envie" for something instead of a craving.
13. You use two or more pirogues to cover your newly planted tomatoes to protect them from a late frost.
14. The horsepower of your outboard motor is greater than the motor in your car.
15. You pass up a trip abroad to go to the Crawfish Festival in Breaux Bridge.
16. Your children's favorite bedtime story begins with "First you make a roux..."
17.Your school teacher teaches the 4 basic food groups as: Boiled seafood, Broiled seafood, Fried seafood, and Beer.
18. You're asked to name the 4 seasons and reply "Onions, celery, bell pepper, and Tony's."
19. You let your black coffee cool and find it has gelled.
20. You describe a 7 course meal as a 6-pack and a pound of boudin!
21. You describe a yard of boudin and cracklings as "breakfast."
22. Your mom/spouse announces each morning, "Well, I've got the rice cooking, what will we have for dinner?"
23. None of your potential vacation destinations are North of the old Mississippi River bridge ***(A bridge in Baton Rouge on Hwy 190)**
24. You think of gravy as a beverage.
25. You learned bourre' the hard way - holding yourself upright in your crib.
26. You consider the 4 seasons as: winter, spring, summer, and hunting!!
27. Your high school band's rendition of the National Anthem begins with, "Jambalaya, crawfish pie, fillet gumbo..."
28. You stand up when they play "Jolie Blonde."
29. Any of your dessert recipes call for jalapenos.
30. You consider Breaux Bridge the capital of the state, and Lafayette the capital of the nation.
31. You think the Mason-Dixon line is at Bunkie.
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for the hunters out there....
Boudreaux and Thibodeaux were out deer hunting. Boudreaux was pretty new to this whole deer hunting thing, so Thibodeaux had told him all about a clean kill, and field dressing, etc.
Well, after an afternoon up in the stand, Boudreaux heard some noise in the woods, he got buck fever and fired. He went over to where he thought his deer should be, and realized he had shot his good friend Thibodeaux.
Boudreaux rushed Thibodeaux to the hospital. After what seemed like a very long time, the doctor came out shaking his head. He told Boudreaux, "The gunshot wound wasn't too bad, and we could have saved Thibodeaux had you just not field-dressed him."
Boudreaux and Thibodeaux were out deer hunting. Boudreaux was pretty new to this whole deer hunting thing, so Thibodeaux had told him all about a clean kill, and field dressing, etc.
Well, after an afternoon up in the stand, Boudreaux heard some noise in the woods, he got buck fever and fired. He went over to where he thought his deer should be, and realized he had shot his good friend Thibodeaux.
Boudreaux rushed Thibodeaux to the hospital. After what seemed like a very long time, the doctor came out shaking his head. He told Boudreaux, "The gunshot wound wasn't too bad, and we could have saved Thibodeaux had you just not field-dressed him."
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From: Gretna, Louisiana
Begle1, Nobody makes fun of Cajuns, because once you get to know us, your too busy eating our Cajun food and having a good time, or your alligator bait. 
original_tsp, They are millions of Boudreaux and Thibodeaux jokes. Very few folks up here have ever heard of them dem. I was glad to see some posted and now I am hungry and looking forward to a trip back home.
Thank God someone knows dem are CRAWFISH!
Pass the tabasco
original_tsp, They are millions of Boudreaux and Thibodeaux jokes. Very few folks up here have ever heard of them dem. I was glad to see some posted and now I am hungry and looking forward to a trip back home.
Thank God someone knows dem are CRAWFISH!
Pass the tabasco
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From: Cross, SC
Boudreaux meets St. Peter
Poor ole Boudreaux up and died one day. Upon arriving at the gates of Heaven, St. Peter greeted him, "Welcome to Heaven, dere Boudreaux!" Boudreaux exclaimed "Mai, tank ya, cher!" St. Peter explained to ole Boudreaux that there was one stipulation before he was allowed through the gates of Heaven....he had to answer one question and get it right. Boudreaux scratched his head and said, "Mai, ok, cher. What dat be?" St. Peter says "What is God's first name?" Boudreaux answers, "Mai, cher, dat be easy, it's Howard." St. Peter (laughing himself silly) "HOWARD? May I ask you, Boudreaux, how'd you come up with that name?" Boudreaux, smiling proudly, says "Mai cher, dat be an easy one.....Our Fadda who art in Heavin, HOWARD be dy name." St. Peter, still chuckling, says "I can't argue with that one, Boudreaux! Come on in!"
Stolen from this site, lots of good ones....
http://home.att.net/~phantom-guy/ilo_boudreaux.htm
Poor ole Boudreaux up and died one day. Upon arriving at the gates of Heaven, St. Peter greeted him, "Welcome to Heaven, dere Boudreaux!" Boudreaux exclaimed "Mai, tank ya, cher!" St. Peter explained to ole Boudreaux that there was one stipulation before he was allowed through the gates of Heaven....he had to answer one question and get it right. Boudreaux scratched his head and said, "Mai, ok, cher. What dat be?" St. Peter says "What is God's first name?" Boudreaux answers, "Mai, cher, dat be easy, it's Howard." St. Peter (laughing himself silly) "HOWARD? May I ask you, Boudreaux, how'd you come up with that name?" Boudreaux, smiling proudly, says "Mai cher, dat be an easy one.....Our Fadda who art in Heavin, HOWARD be dy name." St. Peter, still chuckling, says "I can't argue with that one, Boudreaux! Come on in!"
Stolen from this site, lots of good ones....
http://home.att.net/~phantom-guy/ilo_boudreaux.htm
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From: Backwoods of Missouri CSA
Spent a lot of time in La when I was in the Army and loved it. Especially the food. If the locals down there like you they treat you like family literally. Use to eat at Pearl and Rogers in Billygoat Hill La all the time. Even got to go hunting with some of them. They know how to eat and how to have a good time.
