Someone, somewhere, reminded me yesterday of the Monty Python “Four Yorkshiremen” skit …
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.
I love that skit.
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*snort* Yeah, that was a great one. My second-to-last day at work one of the other techs and I started riffing on that.
Me: In them days we didn’t have ‘ard drives.
Other Tech: ‘Ard drives? We didn’t even ‘ave computers back then. We ‘ad to make do with a scrap of paper and a pencil stub.
Me: Pencil stub, oooo how posh. Meanwhile, we ‘ad to chew our fingers down to nubs and write with our own blood.
Heh.
“Well, at least you *’ad* fingers! We’d given up ours fixin’ problems on line printers in production!”