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On Monday, 27.12.2004 at 14:09 -0600, Alex Malinovich wrote:

> On Mon, 2004-12-27 at 13:55 -0600, Kent West wrote:
> > Daniel B. wrote:
> --snip--
> > > You young whippersnappers are using modeline _generators_?  Back
> > > in the good old days I calculated modeline values by hand.
> > >
> > You had hands?! Luxury! We had to do it in our heads. And we enjoyed
> > it!
> 
> And I suppose you had a house to live in while you were doing it then,
> did you?
> 
> 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.
> 
> And we were thankful!

... and you tell that to kids these days, and THEY WON'T BELIEVE YOU!

Dave.
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