"pyotr filipivich" wrote in message
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Heck, I can remember having to make due with only a black and white
television, no cell phone, and the only phone in the house was a rotary
dial model!

From Monty Python:

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"Yorkshireman IV: You were LUCKY! We lived for three months in a
newspaper-lined septic tank! We used to have to get up every morning, at six
o'clock and clean the newspaper, go to work down the mill, fourteen hours a
day, week in, week out, for sixpence a week, and when we got home, our dad
would thrash us to sleep with his belt!

Yorkshireman II: Luxury! We used to have to get out of the lake at three
o'clock in the morning, clean the lake, eat a handful of hot gravel, work
twenty hours a day at mill, for twopence a month, come home, and dad would
beat us around the head and neck with a broken bottle... IF we were lucky!

Yorkshireman III: Well, of course, we had it tough! We used to have to get up
out of the cardboard box in the middle of the night, and lick the road clean
with our tongues! We had to eat half a handful of freezing cold gravel, work
twenty-four hours a day at mill for fourpence every six years, and when we got
home, our dad would slice us in two with a breadknife!

Yorkshireman I: Right! I had to get up in the morning, at ten o'clock at
night, half an hour before I went to bed, eat a lump of cold poison, work
twenty-nine hours a day down mill and pay mill-owner for permission to come to
work, and when we got home, our dad would kill us and dance about on our
graves, singing Hallelujah!

Yorkshireman IV: Oh, ay. And you try and tell the young people of today that,
and they won't believe you!

All: No, no they won't!
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Hehehe

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Jeff R.