"How many children do you have?" "About 7 or 8 white ones"

Here in the pub without a town things tend to get a little boring. So for the next three months to create a little fun of my own, I am going to try and keep track of all the note-worthy words, conversations and slang that I hear from the locals in the outback. So far we are only 9 days down out of the 88, that we have to stay here and I've already learnt heaps! Let's start with Old Man Red. My first night working as a barmaid, I have this old fella and his dog named Nigger walk into the pub, he sits down and asks for something and instantly I think shit what have I gotten into... I can not understand a word he is saying! In my head I'm praying that not all the locals sound like this man, or I am going to be in some serious trouble! Thankfully after about the fourth try I figured out what he was trying to say to me, until he was about 6 Jim Bean cans in and then I couldn't understand him for the life of me! Old Red is in the pub every night so now at this point I can usually decipher what he is trying to say to me. Over the past 9 days I have had him ask me 9 times if whether or not I am a smoker? To which the first two times I replied with "no". Red then always follows up with "Not even after sex? You must not be fucking fast enough, or gotten a good look at it!" He then grins his old man smile, which is missing almost all of his top teeth, and then continues to drink his Jim can. After the second time I figured I would try throw him off and respond to his usual question with "only after sex". One night after he attempted to toss a stubbie (bottle) cap into my cleavage, I called him a dirty old man. The lady sitting on the bar stool next to him, was like he probably has grandchildren about your age. This then prompted me to ask old man red, how many children he has. This has got to be by far the best question I have ever asked someone, because his response was "about 7 or 8 white ones". I had to walk away to laugh. He said it with such seriousness, I couldn't handle it. From that moment on I realized that Old Man Red, will forever be the perverted, funny old man with no teeth that I will always struggle to understand.