On Sep 2, 10:29 pm, Chris Chiasson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> After the server starts running with 9 nines of reliability, people
> will be bored and will long for the old days, when things weren't so
> assured. Back in my day, we pushed the server uphill both ways in the
> snow.
>
> This was a joke.
>
> As my friend Eric would say:
> We are gathered here today... to bury this attempt at humor.
>
And to quote the true masters:
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!
See http://www.phespirit.info/montypython/four_yorkshiremen.htm
I will now go and dig out that "Flying Circus" DVD Set
Cheers,
Michael
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