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... I didn't wish it on anybody, but I- you-know, I says, "I can- I know why they're- I know why you- they did it, and unfortunately, you can't see it. You don't see it, do you?" You s-- you know, "You can't see why people do this to you. You- you ask for it, you- know?" |
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... I was watching the you-know, the you-know, stock-market, the news report, you-know, the business report type-of-thing and someone- and the guy mentioned, and I says, "I don't even know we had that problem," you-know, along with other- other things. And I says, "Well," I says, "Well, it's okay," type-of-thing, I says, "I just found Americans to be just too arrogant and rude and I don't hate them but I tolerate them when I see them. Be polite." |
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Here's the key, we'll leave the food. You-know, once a day type-of-thing, go in, you-know, and feed the cats, type-of-thing, check on the gerbils and whatever. I says, "Okay, fine." it's been a long time since I've been in one of those houses. And sure enough, I go next door you-know, to do my d-- and I open up the door and I walk in and I go, "Geez this place is small ... |
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East coasters. Everyone- everyone who has rented the farm, I says, "Where you from," type-of-thing. "Oh, originally from the east-coast." I went, "Okay," you-know, "either New-Brunswick, Nova--" they're all east coasters. |
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... but she was getting Canadian pension you see, type-of-thing. And she had- she took a heck of a lot of money with her type-of-thing. Almost two- two- hundred-thousand with her went. And I says, "Yeah, Yugoslav-- you know what that two- hundred-thousand dollars would buy?" You-know, type-of-thing. |
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I'm sitting on the porch, the dog will run up and run-- run up the porch to see me type-of-thing. I says, "Hey, you like me don't you, yeah?" type-of-thing, "'Cause I scratch your bum." Um, I saw her type-of-thing walking her dog up and she says- I says, "Oh," I says, "Jessie you going for a walk in the park?" |
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She says, "I'm not walking," she says, "you're not going to the park." I says, "Why- why not?" She says, "Well, she ate something there the last time (inc) chicken bone or something like that, she got sick." |
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Speaker: ... I go to the fence and I look. Damn! Somebody's skating out there! And it wasn't just a little pond. I says, "Geez it's a- one hell of an area!" Interviewer: Was it just natural? Speaker: It pe-- no it's the neighbours. |
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Speaker: I didn't go over to see how big it was, but I says, "That's as big as a rink that they used to put up when the-" And I says, "Who put that," I says, "That wasn't put up by the city." No- Interviewer: No, 'cause they would- it would get sued if someone hurt themselves. |
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... it was just a week ago, looked out the back window, sunny day, was three jays in the backyard and I says- I said, "Ah they're back," I says, "Oh- oh goody. Oh good thank the lord their back," type-of-thing. I say, "They haven't wiped them out." And the same thing with the chickadees. |
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Interviewer: You had a big cat. Speaker: Which- and he- okay finally type-of-thing, passed away, and it was, "Should we get another cat?" And I says, "No," I says- I says, "Twenty-two years of- you-know, which is a long- long time for a cat. Twenty-two years," I says, "Well," I says, "Well we'll- we'll pass on that for- for a little while." |
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... she comes over, she says, "Is Puffin there?" I says, "Yes, puffin's here. Puffin spends the night. She's got her spot," you-know, type-of-thing. If we can find her, she moves around, you-know, type-of- thing, I says, "Don't worry, Puffin's fine. Yes it's forty below zero, but she lives here." |
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Speaker: She spent half her time there and half her time here. I says, "Look-" Interviewer: Joint custody. Speaker: Yeah, I says, yeah basically, I says, "We got the cat." I says, "If you want your cat, if you're looking for your cat, if you're concerned about your cat, it's over here. it's over here." |
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If there was something wrong with the cat, I took it back next door and said, "there's something wrong with your cat. Okay, you- you handle it." I says, "I'll buy food," okay. |
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... other than that I have no other responsibility for the cat type-of-thing. And it comes over and it purrs and it rubs and it rubs and I says, "I'm happy." I says, "I got my cat, I got my cat without having a cat." |
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| Example | Meaning |
A lot of people think "Oh it's all over." It's not over yet. I was just talking to someone on the phone because they just went through an incident and I told them I says "You-know something, everybody thinks that the white-hoods and the sheets are gone. They're not. They wear three-piece-suits now (laughs) and sit behind a desk" you-know? You-know and- and look innocent. |
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Yeah, let's call Arnie. he's black, he has a lot of information about blackness you-know? So ah, which is great. I'm glad they recognize but as I- I think you heard when we were at the ah at the ROM and I says "After ah- after February we'll still be black. You-know? And the phone still works" you-know. |
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... you-know a lot of people have said "Arnie, why's it you always hire black kids? There's always a lot of kids out here" I says "Yeah but they don't have the same options the black kids don't." And I'm in the- I'm in the position where I can give them that option and I intend to whether you like it or not you-know? |
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And I had to go up by I mean I got kicked in the ass and doors slapped in my f-- slammed in my face. I says "Ah no, no, you c-- I'm here, you're not gonna get rid of me" you-know? But- but one of the- see there's another factor that you have to understand too. Because of the colour of my skin, because of my features, 'cause my mother was white ... |
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... there's this one guy up here on Queen-and- Lee he- he sits there and he's been there for about two years if not longer now. Same position, same hat, same hand out. The other d-- and every time I go by he mumbles something so the othe-- So I says, "Let me just go walk a little slower." And he as mumbling as I walk by, he said "W-- why don't you give a white person something?" I says "Oh shit," I- I says "I just keep my mouth shut and keep going because this poor man." |
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