Re: Update

Posted by Hugh MacKay on January 11, 2006 at 17:18:25 from (216.208.58.190):

In Reply to: Re: Update posted by Chris in Washington on January 11, 2006 at 13:58:28:

Chris: Mort was the only Canadian I ever knew that made those words work. Back in the 1930s, Mort and my dad were moving logs to a sawmill via horses and bobsleds. They each had a team and sleds and helped each other load and unload. In late winter the ground was starting become bare at the skidway, thus the team had to be moving well and stop in just the right spot for unloading, as the horses would never start it again. One of the mill employees stuck his head out the window and yelled WHOA, when Mort's team was yet about 6' from where he wanted to stop. They stopped. My dad was just out of his teens at that time, he said the adjectives Mort used both on the mill employee and the horses, would necesitate a new dictionary. Dad was down behind the sleds laughing when Mort caught him. Mort was my mom's uncle thus my great uncle. Dad didn't think it was quite so funny when they had to slide every log 6'to match the skidway. He probably had a few words of his own for that mill worker.

Actually I believe Mort's words were Methodist, probably the same both sides of border.

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