Speaker: Yeah it 's always open, see all the dogs and-everything in there all the time, used to lock it, couldn't get in. Interviewer: It 's interesting Speaker: Big lock on the bugger, and "No, you 're not allowed in."

And so that was where you would catch the ferry to get over to the Canary-Islands. Well, the buggers. You had to wait 'til they opened that border crossing. By open means they come in trucks and they open up the ah- open up the huts so they can stamp your passports and so they were very clever in the way they did that.

I stayed on the Canary-Islands for a couple more days or a couple of weeks or something and then took the ferry back over to Spanish-Sahara. I said, "You buggers. I 'm going to take it the other way just to show you."

So I learned a lot about the phone system. And there was this real bugger. This old bugger on the test- the test board which you call in to get tests on the lines and things. And he 'd give all the guys a rough time, especially the young guys.

Well, it turns out his uncle was this bugger at Bell who I used to deal with! (laughs) So, incredible how all of this is connected, yeah. So it was a great time on the Canary- Islands because he had a tent, so we slept on the beach.

Interviewer: Yeah that 's why I think if you lived over in that Yonge- anywhere along Yonge. Speaker: Oh you bugger. Interviewer: I don 't think that it 's as nice just 'cause it 's so much smaller the backyards and everything and you can 't go in the street for two minutes without having to move out of the way of a car.

Interviewer: Except for the one time she um drove really intoxicated. Speaker: Oh did she? Oh that little (inc)- Interviewer: (inc) After she got her G. Speaker: Oh that little bugger. Interviewer: What happened was she went to work in the morning and she was still drunk from the night before 'cause she drank so much and um they sent her home 'cause she was really drunk and she drove home.

...and so when you went to school, I can remember g-- you-know, somebody k-- kid in- in school coming from Italy, eh? And the poor little bugger couldn't- couldn't understand English, eh? So we would- we would be more compassionate to him, eh? To- to help- help him eh? And- and ah, so it was ah, it was a very good ah, thing like that.

So finally they find it in the drawer in the kitchen or-something amongs-- amongst of another pile of paper you-know? Buggers you-know? If somebody sent me a hundred bucks for Chripe's sake, I'd go through a field of glass on my bare hands and knees for Chripe's sake to get it, you-know? And here- here, "Oh, ah you-know, it's nothing, you-know?" So you-know what we do now?

So he left a little baby and come home to this busy little bugger of a kid you-know (laughs)? So- and that would then go over great with Franky 'cause he wasn't used to having him around town.

...and so I told him the joke. He says, "Oh, that God-darn bugger," he says, "He went and told that to the kids at school."

Speaker: At Home-Hardware, Kirkland-Lake. Interviewer: So did it keep your business up? Speaker: So they come in and- and oh, everybody go to it and, "Oh! Oh, you bugger." (Laughs)

nd I thought "You bugger." So I tried to get up and I called up to him and I told him "You're making it worse. Just come back down." And ah he said ah something about um, he wanted- I can't remember what he was asking for.

So one day dad says, "I can give you cash, John, if you want it". "No, no cash. Want a cheque". So dad writes out the cheque, says, "Why you want a cheque?" he said. Well he says, "I'm going to church" he says "If I have cash, that little black bugger will know it". (Laughs) But I have a cheque...

Interviewer: Now you said you'd seen a s-- a fisher before. Speaker: Oh yeah. Interviewer: What do they look like? I've never see one. Speaker: They're vicious little buggers.

And it go across the (inc) by the time the end of the train was going by, he'd be rolling her. And there was another old bugger that didn't know what he was doing and I've seen him, the- like the drive wheels, I've seen him spin those drive wheels twice before it started to move and all he's doing is ripping the- the- the thing apart and putting a flat spot on the rails.

He was one of the snarliest, ugliest little buggers I ever was 'round in my life.

Wednesday night is wing night. My son cooks it. He's a good cook, he cooks up so I go up for supper on Wednesday night and that's it. Hour up and an hour back. Couple of hours there. Dirty buggers, they always try to- want you to have a drink or two, you-know? And that's bad.

Meanwhile there's no compensation (laughs) for the bugger (laughs). Yeah, made you wonder made you think right there. But anyway there was no...

So, we made the date and what-not and then clip the- "You're the bugger that was in here a f-- few years ago." (laughs) He'd recognized you. "Yeah, I'm back again." So, we clipped the five or the fi-- the seven sheep.