Yokels

"There are times when you just have really strange conversations," Jim McKenzie says. "I had a fight with Stu Grimson once when I was in Winnipeg, and at the end of the fight, we were both huffing and puffing, and he says, 'Your wife Italian?' and I said 'Why yeah, she is.' And he said 'She cooks with a lot of garlic, doesn't she?' Obviously I needed a tic-tac"

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