in a satisfactory way; to a considerable extent, largely.
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Interviewer: So you were raised in Cobalt though? Speaker: Ah, I lived my first year and a half in North-Cobalt and then moved here in like ninety-four. Now we live in- in this trailer my whole life. Pretty well. |
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Speaker: Everyone's related. Interviewer: It's just like all family. Speaker: Pretty well. It's just all my cousins and- ... So, it was just small- it was just still really small. |
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Interviewer: Is the drama here worse than Liskeard? ... Speaker: No like you have- there's like two groups of people basically it's just like- like stoners downtown pretty well- |
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Speaker: I drank way before Peter ever did. Interviewer: For a while you and Peter were like inseparable and you- whenever I saw you guys, you were drunk. Speaker: Yeah, pretty well. |
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Yeah you just mess around all the time. That's why I jedi'd pretty well. That's the only reason why I wanted to. |
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I do part of Arthur's job, I can do part of Brandy's job which is you-know part of the invoicing. Um, Arthur does the ah quoting and-all-that. I can do the graphics. Ah, I do some of the binda-- I-mean, you name it, I can pretty well do it in here. |
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I-mean the water's pretty well polluted down there anyways ... |
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Yeah, yeah she was born in Montreal and then when she was about twelve they moved to Cobalt and ah she was pretty well raised there. |
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Oh we were set up. We were pretty well set up yeah. |
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My mom and I were alone, I'm an only child. ... And ah my mother worked in an office and ah we were alone pretty well most weeks together but ah um I can rem-- when there's anything to be done around the house, I did it. No brother. |
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Interviewer: So you pretty much know who's getting married to who in this town, right? Speaker: Pretty well. But nowadays not much- not many weddings. |
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Well it's all pretty well- Slave-Lake is up northern part of Alberta. And ah it's basically all bush, as we call it. |
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And I- I left mining and then I went ah, as a paining, taping, filler guy and I spent most of my life doing that, eh? And ah, until I retired, well I pretty well- I- couple of years ago. But Kirkland-Lake was a busy, busy place when I was growing up eh? |
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Um, it's probably- that's probably what attracts me to this- this community. Um, it- it has ah, like my memories are here and ah, the laughter that I knew in life is- is here so ah, that's pretty well what I- I remem-- like I feel about Kirkland-Lake. |
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It was there when I started. It had already began when I started to play and it ended- I think it pretty well died out in the early eighties, yeah. Yeah. |
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Interviewer: Number of kids? Speaker: No no. No, no, it was pretty well ah, you-know I-think average then. Yeah, yeah, it was good. Yeah, it was good years. |
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Ah, we all pretty well had a good time, in-fact we were rather rowdy (laughs). |
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Now as we wanted- we had like a little fridge that we put the ice in- in the kitchen when you want to keep- well you pretty well had to keep your milk and cream and-everything from going sour. |
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Speaker: They were just kids (laughs). ... Got into mischief and- Interviewer: Yeah? Speaker: What-have-you. Oh they're- oh, pretty well. My boys were very hockey-minded and- ... Good job there was two boys. You-know, been easier- you-know better than having a boy and a girl. |
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It- as you got older and ah, there seemed to be a lot more jobs my day because the older gang was pretty well all gone. ... And ah- as each person got a little older, they went out to work. ... They weren't going to stay in the farm and work for nothing. |
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