Friday, Jan 06, 2006 at 07:59
G'day Axle,
was going to put in a one liner but there does not appear to be too many pythonites here so I'll put the lot in.
FIRST YORKSHIREMAN:
Aye, very passable, that, very passable bit of risotto.
SECOND YORKSHIREMAN:
Nothing like a good glass of Château de Chasselas, eh, Josiah?
THIRD YORKSHIREMAN:
You're right there, Obadiah.
FOURTH YORKSHIREMAN:
Who'd have thought thirty year ago we'd all be sittin' here drinking Château de Chasselas, eh?
FIRST YORKSHIREMAN:
In them days we was glad to have the price of a cup o' tea.
SECOND YORKSHIREMAN:
A cup o' cold tea.
FOURTH YORKSHIREMAN:
Without milk or sugar.
THIRD YORKSHIREMAN:
Or tea.
FIRST YORKSHIREMAN:
In a cracked cup, an' all.
FOURTH YORKSHIREMAN:
Oh, we never had a cup. We used to have to drink out of a rolled up newspaper.
SECOND YORKSHIREMAN:
The best we could manage was to suck on a piece of damp cloth.
THIRD YORKSHIREMAN:
But you know, we were happy in those days, though we were poor.
FIRST YORKSHIREMAN:
Because we were poor. My old Dad used to say to me, "Money doesn't buy you happiness, son".
FOURTH YORKSHIREMAN:
Aye, 'e was right.
FIRST YORKSHIREMAN:
Aye, 'e was.
FOURTH YORKSHIREMAN:
I was happier then and I had nothin'. We used to live in this tiny old house with great big holes in the roof.
SECOND YORKSHIREMAN:
House! You were lucky to live in a house! We used to live in one room, all twenty-six of us, no furniture, 'alf the floor was missing, and we were all 'uddled together in one corner for fear of falling.
THIRD YORKSHIREMAN:
Eh, you were lucky to have a room! We used to have to live in t' corridor!
FIRST YORKSHIREMAN:
Oh, we used to dream of livin' in a corridor! Would ha' been a palace to us. We used to live in an old
water tank on a rubbish tip. We got woke up every morning by having a load of rotting fish dumped all over us! House? Huh.
FOURTH YORKSHIREMAN:
Well, when I say 'house' it was only a hole in the ground covered by a sheet of tarpaulin, but it was a house to us.
SECOND YORKSHIREMAN:
We were evicted from our 'ole in the ground; we 'ad to go and live in a
lake.
THIRD YORKSHIREMAN:
You were lucky to have a
lake! There were a hundred and fifty of us living in t' shoebox in t' middle o' road.
FIRST YORKSHIREMAN:
Cardboard box?
THIRD YORKSHIREMAN:
Aye.
FIRST YORKSHIREMAN:
You were lucky. We lived for three months in a paper bag in a septic tank. We used to have to get up at six in the morning, clean the paper bag, eat a crust of stale bread, go to work down t' 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 wi' his belt.
SECOND YORKSHIREMAN:
Luxury. We used to have to get out of the
lake at six o'clock in the morning, clean the
lake, eat a handful of 'ot gravel, work twenty hour day at mill for tuppence a month, come
home, and Dad would thrash us to sleep with a broken bottle, if we were lucky!
THIRD YORKSHIREMAN:
Well, of course, we had it tough. We used to 'ave to get up out of shoebox at twelve o'clock at night and lick road clean wit' tongue. We had two bits of cold gravel, worked twenty-four hours a day at mill for sixpence every four years, and when we got
home our Dad would slice us in two wit' bread knife.
FOURTH YORKSHIREMAN:
Right. I had to get up in the morning at ten o'clock at night half an hour before I went to bed, drink a cup of sulphuric acid, 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 and our mother would kill us and dance about on our
graves singing Hallelujah.
FIRST YORKSHIREMAN:
And you try and tell the
young people of today that ..... they won't believe you.
ALL:
They won't!
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Follow Up By: Member - JohnR (Vic)&Moses - Friday, Jan 06, 2006 at 09:48
Friday, Jan 06, 2006 at 09:48
good to have a DVD in the bush to have all the Python movies, eh bushfix?
Remind us of the humour of hardship ;-)
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Follow Up By: Axle - Friday, Jan 06, 2006 at 10:04
Friday, Jan 06, 2006 at 10:04
Great to see some blokes still acknowledge the good ol days.
Different world now though, great replys.
Good ol days caus there gone
Happy Travelling
Axle
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Follow Up By: Member - bushfix - Friday, Jan 06, 2006 at 10:05
Friday, Jan 06, 2006 at 10:05
G'day
John,
Wife's Father has just given her a 60GB ipod for Christmas!!!!!!!!! bloody thing claims to be able to store 150 hrs of video, (150? says Eric Olthwaite) that'd be good.) So i'm currently changing from 98 to xp to support the thing, but like Willem has done it looks like i will be able to stash my sounds in a teeny device instead of filling up space with cds. that is a good thing.
actually, ipod is going to cause a bit of confusion in the bush, might have to call it Bruce to keep it clear
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