BS: Very Fussible, Very Fussible

Subject: RE: BS: Very Fussible, Very Fussible
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 18 Jan 04 - 05:30 AM

We ad to work a 72 hour shift every day, 9 days a week and pay't gaffer for permission to come to work. Not like them soft southeners.
eric

Subject: RE: BS: Very Fussible, Very Fussible
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 17 Jan 04 - 07:18 AM

When ah were a lad our dad ad to kill me to feed rest of em, an you try tellin that to folks t'day, they don't believe it.
eric the ghost

Subject: RE: BS: Very Fussible, Very Fussible
From: ced2
Date: 17 Jan 04 - 04:28 AM

Spent your spare time 'untin did you? We 'ad no spare time. We 'ad to work int' mill seven days a week from dawn to dark!

Subject: RE: BS: Very Fussible, Very Fussible
From: Walking Eagle
Date: 16 Jan 04 - 03:37 PM

LOL!

Subject: RE: BS: Very Fussible, Very Fussible
From: Bill D
Date: 16 Jan 04 - 03:22 PM

When I Was A Boy

Copyright © 1997 by Frank Hayes, Firebird Arts & Music (BMI)


When I was a boy our Nintendo
Was carved from an old Apple tree
And we used garden hose to connect it
To our steam-powered color tv.

But it still beat that ancient Atari
'Cuz I almost went blind, don'tcha know,
Playing Breakout and Pong on a video game
Hooked up to the radio.

And we walked twenty miles to the schoolhouse
Barefoot, uphill both ways,
Through blizzards in summer and winter
Back in the good old days.
Back when Fortran was not even Three-tran
And the PC was only a toy
And we did our computing by gaslight
When I was a boy.

When I was a boy all our networks
Were for hauling in fish from the sea--
Our bawd rate was eight bits an hour (and she was worth it!),
And our IP address was just 3.

And you kids who complain that the World Wide Web
Is too slow oughtta cut out your bitchin',
'Cuz when I was a boy every packet
Was delivered by carrier pigeon

And we walked twenty miles to the schoolhouse
Barefoot, uphill both ways,
Through blizzards in summer and winter
Back in the good old days.
Back when Fortran was not even Two-tran
And the mainframe was only a toy
And we did our computing by torchlight
When I was a boy.

When I was a boy our IS shop
Built relational tables from wood,
And we wrappered our data in oilcloth
To preserve it the best that we could.

And we carried our bits in a bucket,
And our mainframe weighed 900 tons,
And we programmed in ones and in zeros
And sometimes we ran out of ones.

And we walked twenty miles to the schoolhouse
Barefoot, uphill both ways,
Through blizzards in summer and winter
Back in the good old days.
Back when Fortran was not even One-tran
And the abacus? Only a toy!
And we did our computing in primordial darkness
When I was a boy.




Copyright ©2003 Steve Macdonald

Subject: RE: BS: Very Fussible, Very Fussible
From: Walking Eagle
Date: 16 Jan 04 - 03:09 PM

Soft buggers! We lived outside all th time! Not a top or ceilin in sight! Plates? leaves? We et our food raw! 'Unted as a pack, we did.

Subject: RE: BS: Very Fussible, Very Fussible
From: ced2
Date: 16 Jan 04 - 10:50 AM

You 'ad a shoe box...Luxury, Sheer Luxury! We used to dream of 'avin' a shoe box, all we cud manage wer a paper bag for a tent, 'n the' were 105 of us!

Subject: RE: BS: Very Fussible, Very Fussible
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 16 Jan 04 - 09:31 AM

PLATES, wots plates? there wer a undred an four of us int shoe box int middle ot road eatin off dock leaves. plates!!
eric the Yorkshireman

Subject: RE: BS: Very Fussible, Very Fussible
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 16 Jan 04 - 08:36 AM

Twigs??? Soft bugger! Ower Dad ad think nowt of ripping the bones owt of us legs to ate is supper wi. And we were grateful if e let us ave em back...

:D

Subject: RE: BS: Very Fussible, Very Fussible
From: ced2
Date: 16 Jan 04 - 06:55 AM

Tha' 'ad knives 'n forks in tha' family; luxury, sheer luxury! Tha' didn't no' tha' were born. We 'ad to eat us grub off us plates wi' twigs carved to look like knives an forks!

Subject: RE: BS: Very Fussible, Very Fussible
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 16 Jan 04 - 05:22 AM

Ay when ah were a lad we were so poor we used to think knives an forks were jewlry. Tha dunt knowe thas born t'day.
eric

Subject: RE: BS: Very Fussible, Very Fussible
From: ced2
Date: 16 Jan 04 - 05:08 AM

Tha' knows tha' can't trust eric t'red. 'Ees a reight lying buggar! Anyroyds 'Ee clearly 'ad a reight cushy child'ood and nivver 'ad the 'ard times like wot us 'ad in Yorkshire, 'Is life wer luxury. Sheer luxury!

Subject: RE: BS: Very Fussible, Very Fussible
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 15 Jan 04 - 10:51 AM

aye lad, but seriously I know him, he's at least twice as old as me.
eric

Subject: RE: BS: Very Fussible, Very Fussible
From: Bobjack
Date: 15 Jan 04 - 09:34 AM

ced2 should be able to remember proper yorkshire puddings then eh rice?

Subject: RE: BS: Very Fussible, Very Fussible
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 15 Jan 04 - 09:25 AM

ced2 is a lying bugger, he is at least 105 years old.
eric

Subject: RE: BS: Very Fussible, Very Fussible
From: Bobjack
Date: 15 Jan 04 - 09:09 AM

Dave , you where lucky!! I was dragged up in Withernsea!!

Subject: RE: BS: Very Fussible, Very Fussible
From: Dave Bryant
Date: 15 Jan 04 - 09:00 AM

ee lad - when Ah were lad - 'Ull was just a smelly dump.

- Some things never change.

Subject: RE: BS: Very Fussible, Very Fussible
From: Strupag
Date: 15 Jan 04 - 05:01 AM

Ced2
You think that was hard! When I was a ladd.............

Subject: RE: BS: Very Fussible, Very Fussible
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 14 Jan 04 - 06:15 AM

Have you seen the four Yorkshiremen done by Eddie Izzard, Vic Reeves, Harry Enfield and...

Alan Rickman!

It's on the Amnesty International support show "We know where you live" and is one of the funniest versions (including all the Python ones) I have ever seen:-)

Cheers

DtG

Subject: RE: BS: Very Fussible, Very Fussible
From: Gurney
Date: 14 Jan 04 - 05:12 AM

Aye, times were 'ard, lad.
(Pass us another bunch o' them weeds over there, they're reet tasty!)

Subject: RE: BS: Very Fussible, Very Fussible
From: Walking Eagle
Date: 14 Jan 04 - 03:55 AM

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Subject: RE: BS: Very Fussible, Very Fussible
From: Peace
Date: 14 Jan 04 - 12:16 AM

I want it when you're done, Martin. I will smoke, but I won't inhale.

Subject: RE: BS: Very Fussible, Very Fussible
From: GUEST,Martin Gibson
Date: 13 Jan 04 - 04:57 PM

Ced2

Good stuff, huh? Pass it to me.

Subject: RE: BS: Very Fussible, Very Fussible
From: GUEST,Ed
Date: 13 Jan 04 - 04:54 PM

Or were you just trying to be amusing?

Subject: RE: BS: Very Fussible, Very Fussible
From: GUEST,Ed
Date: 13 Jan 04 - 04:52 PM

And your point/question is..?

Subject: BS: Very Fussible, Very Fussible
From: ced2
Date: 13 Jan 04 - 04:44 PM

Ah've just seen t'thread about 100 years ago. Ah can't remember that far back,(yet)! Ah can remember when Ah were a lad though. Did tha know that we hadn't got a 'ouse to ourselves; we had to share a one roomed shack wi' five other families, a pig, and a farting cow. Times were 'ard but the' were 'appy times.....