Because this is Upper Canada, after all, and 'caning' sounds more English than 'having ass whipped to death with hickory stick.
Do a lot of questions mean you are really smart or really dumb?
I am not a teacher in my heart," she said. "I am a doer, and all these little shitheads in front of me are do-nothings. There is racism in the world and they acknowledge it, but they sit in class listening to bullshit professors. Give me a bricklayer...
I am a teacher. I should be giving tests, not taking them.
There is, you will concede, a limit to the niceties a man is obliged to fulfill when his wife is dead and not yet cold.
Bank robbing is more of a sure thing than farming.