On Mon, 2004-12-27 at 20:21 +0000, Dave Ewart wrote: > 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! In 4 foot deep snow, uphill both ways. Pushing the cheese cart our Dad made us pedal cheese with. -- greg, greg@gregfolkert.net The technology that is Stronger, better, faster: Linux
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