in a satisfactory way; to a considerable extent, largely.
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Black spots- I- I have some. ... They're pretty well faded, I got those a few days ago (laughs). ... They make big lumps (laughs). |
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To do shopping or even, I can remember as a- as a young person, we very seldom ah went into the town. On the farm pretty well all the time so- ... |
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Interviewer: Now were they like ah Damian's parents? Did they come into Toronto and then up or were they- Speaker: Pretty well, I-think. Um, let's see. My h-- my sister has this better than I have. I just have scribbled notes. |
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Interviewer: Were these plays written by the students or did they present themselves? Speaker: They would be plays that ah, were made up. ... And then, teacher would pretty well choose those. |
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They were better in school than I was, so actually my youngest sister I was pretty well out of school by the time she- she started. She may have been just in grade one or two I suppose. |
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And that's where- actually Mothers- ah, my mother-in-law is there, Ester's mother's in The-Manor and that's a l-- local ah, hm, well how would I- how would I describe- it's- it's people that can pretty well take care of themselves like when they can't- can't look after themselves, they have to go to a nursing home, so this is step between giving up their homes and their meals are provided and type-of-thing, laundry's provided- |
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But the rest of time we'd g-- going down to Michigan, Texas is close to South-Powdri-Island and that's- that's in the g-- Gulf-of-Mexico. It's pretty well as far south in Texas you can go. |
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Bus all the time. Yeah and he did everything over there pretty well. If anything, he mixed it- mixed the stuff and (inc) sent Danny to ah the States some place on a fir-- course on this- and doing these kind of things. |
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Interviewer: And is this like summers or all year? Speaker: This- this is pretty well all the time. Wintertime um I guess we do a little bit of ah- friend of mine always had a- always had a whole bunch of skidoos and that type-of-thing so we'd play on ah- we did a lot of that. |
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Interviewer: So what was it like during the war? ... Speaker: Very- there weren't very many people around, ah you-know, kids all went- pretty well everyone went and then everyone in the high-school, you'd be there, have ah assembly upstairs in the gym in the morning ... |
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I rarely had to sit in a night and study, 'cause I would go back to school at half-past-twelve and we had an hour and an half of lunch. I would get the morning work pretty well done, and I would stay there 'til five-o'clock, not lolligagging up and down the isles with a big bunch of books, but getting tomorrows, whatever we got for homework in the afternoon. I'd get it done. |
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... and we'd take the garbage and she'd- they'd take me for a walk and I had different- pretty well every night, it's a different girl. ... And ah, then in the morning, a-- d-- another b-- girl comes in and ah- and um, she'll give me a sponge bath and put the commode- empty it and put it back in on the toilet you-know? |
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Did you hear about Cobalt? And he, "No, what about Cobalt?" "It's burning down." They said, "Come and watch the T-V." So, oh, it was just something else. ... And so by the time we got back to see it was pretty well- so much of it was burned. |
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With my grandma on my dad's side, watched the Leafs game if there's- and then my mom's- on my mom's side, she pretty well took care of me a lot of time when I was younger so. |
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Interviewer: Did you have a favourite teacher at E-C-C-S? Speaker: Ah, well, pretty well everyone's favourite teacher there was Don-Martin. |
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So like said, pretty well everything that we do, he's- he's pretty much involved, like I said, he's pretty well, yeah, he's pretty well brother- my- my parents consider him like as a stepson type-thing. |
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Actually one of my favourite teachers that everybody hated, grade-ten civics, Mister-Clank. ... Alright, well I think he's moved away now, but in grade-nine, everyone like just hated him. He used to be the gym teacher at the time, he was pretty well (inc) in gym and-stuff-like-that but probably like one of the smartest guys you could have for civics. |
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Interviewer: What have you worn? ... Speaker: Ah, no, no I don't even remember it. I remember doing the toga party, that's pretty much fucking (inc) pretty much- well and- junks almost well- pretty well shown in that damn party. |
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He said, there's- there's not much happening in southern Ontario. It's just, you-know, in some- in some places, they- they- we're pretty well getting finished seeding up here, but down there, in some places, they have barely started. |
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Ever-- pretty well every grave that I could see, they don't carry the bodies there in a hearse, they carry it on their shoulders. Maybe four big men carry it on their shoulders, that's how they'd do it up 'til now. |
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