On Monday 27 December 2004 14:36, Greg Folkert wrote: > 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.
While running the abacus because electricity had not yet been invented for calculating the modeline values. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
