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. -- Dave Ewart - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] All email from me is now digitally signed, key from http://www.sungate.co.uk/ Fingerprint: AEC5 9360 0A35 7F66 66E9 82E4 9E10 6769 CD28 DA92
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