Well, we'd call it like May Run or just a long weekend. And- or just plain holiday.

Funny, now that you say that, now I just remembered. From what I understand ah May Run is actually a Northern-Ontario, Timmins term as well.

We- we loved to ah play hockey on the outdoor rinks. We loved to go fishing on the weekends. We did a lot of that, actually especially with May Run and-that. And despite the fact that people always think of it as a drinking ah weekend- which, that is there as well but we actually did some real fishing.

Speaker: Because they say two-four weekend down south. Interviewer: Yeah. Speaker: And we say May Run.

Interviewer: Is there anything specific you can think about Northern Ontario or Timmins? Speaker: May-- Ah we were just talking about it. May-two-four, May Run.

We used to call it just running to the beer-store before it closes. Interviewer: Right (laughs). Speaker: And before the line up is there. But yeah, May-Two-Four? I'm like "Why?" Um but yeah there's definitely different things we're- like-I-said we're just more laid back here.

Um um North-Bay, I know quite a p-- few people from North-Bay and I haven't noticed a different language that much um. Interviewer: What about slang, though? Speaker: Slang? Interviewer: (inc) Speaker: Yes, that whole thing- that May Run, May-Two-Four thing seems to start at- past North-Bay. Interviewer: It's the border? Speaker: Mm-hm hits- it's the border. Um and Sudbury is just a bigger Timmins.

Sh-- it was always "el-ees" (laughs). As far as she was concerned, you-know. She was an English lady, and she said, "I cannot say it." And I thought, "But it's not hard to say." But they just have that you-know. But um yeah, I guess ah b-- but that May-Two-Four, that kills me. I've never (laughs) never heard that before. Not at all. And that- that's something different, too.

Whoever is transcribing this. Mm 'kay. So, it's, like, a weekend or something and we decided to get drunk. And I hadn't been drunk before. So (laughs) I got Jason to go out and buy me a mickey of vodka,'cause I thought, "You-know, I'm Polish. Whatever, I can take- I'll drink vodka, that's great."

So um we go out, get some vodka, you-know. I'm drinking the vodka, whatever. I'm halfway through the mickey, it's my first time drinking. I'm pretty drunk, so whatever. Drink some beers, take some shots of other people's stuff, have a cooler- I'm pretty fucking gone at this point.

So, grad. I- I'll...preface this by saying I had no idea that Serena even liked me. I-don't-know, I kind-of knew she liked me. But anyways. Um so I show up there, I have, like, a mickey of vodka, Peter has a- like, a twenty-sixer of rum and also, like, two master-shot-glasses. You've got some sort of alcohol, I don't remember what it was. Probably Disaronno and ah.

Ah I ended up in the hospital one night after a dance but. ... Yeah, and the- then got the third and fourth degree from the local con-- constabulary, going, "Hey guys, ah knew you were on drugs, you were on this." And ah whoa I finished a- a mickey of rum and then I probably had another drink with somebody else and the two didn't blend well together and I had to- teacher sent me out, because I was drunk (laughs) in the dance and I decided to walk home.

Interviewer: Um what else is like ah well you know, miner's-mouth (inc). Speaker: Miner's-mouth? Interviewer: Yeah. All the cursing and (inc). Speaker: Oh. That's the first thing I thought of when you said miner's-mouth, but ah. Interviewer: Yeah. Do you- do you- did you ever find that your ah your father would swear a lot coming home from work or?

Interviewer: Do you think that the ah, the mine has played a role in how- well, the mines played a role in how people speak English? Speaker: I-don't-know. Interviewer: No? Speaker: Groups- groups of men and- ah, well, probably, it must have. Interviewer: Miner's mouth? Speaker: Miner's mouth, you-know, go home, and I'm sure they came up with, you-know, some short forms, or weird- weird ways of saying things.

And I think that's just because of that closeness. I don't think you'd see that with people in um Southern-Ontario and-that. But working in the mine, working that- it's like we said about the F-word at the mine, the miner's-mouth. Because you work with them. And I worked with them for many summers.

But it's ver-- I don't want to call it the blue-collar talking and they're the white-collar talking, but it's almost- I think like that- here we talk "ahh" you-know, there's some swear words once in a while. Eff this eff that. It's called the miner's-mouth. My wife had it- she worked in the (laughs)- she worked in the um ah at the Kidd-Creek Med-site. And ah oo she gets it from that. And it's true.

... ah environmental and natural resource programs.... A lot of them are offered through college and then you go to university after. ... So I- I might just do that and like- for, like, M-N-R forestry, or conservation. Something where you're, like, outside doing stuff. ... And- and probably come back to Porcupine to work. Or if I find somewhere like, I know I don't want to live in a big city.

He was a miner, a drift miner. And he had a bad habit after a blast. Instead of scaling before he started mucking, he'd walk in and try to get- get ready to- to drill where the guys mucking eh? And Gerard knew him and says "Andrew, you got a bad habit." And a loose fell on him. So- so- so then I called- I called my- the man I got working for me underground I called- he- and- and my leader was Gerard, another Gerard. And I said "Gerard, there's- go to the next level and see Gerard the shifter. Andrew got hit. Go give him a hand to get him out."

I guess you stay away (inc), but they're there drilling away there with the pluggers there, just wet. And they always drill. Um they'll blast here and they'll muck out here. They'll muck out and the water will run there and they'll drill up here right? Like- like this? Like the sh-- shaft is- is twenty-four feet or thirty-feet wide? So fifteen feet h-- he-- blast this out, and muck this out and then they'll drill this side.

Interviewer: Now you had mentioned earlier that ah your father's a miner. And ah do you um- do you remember any specific time when your father got injured or- ? Speaker: Way back when I was in grade-seven, and I'd be about ah- think I was about eleven or twelve-years-old, he- he was working on a mucking machine and he got crushed. And he spent about a year in Sunnybrook Hospital.