> On Nov 10, 2020, at 12:54 PM, Bob Pdml <[email protected]> wrote: > > Luxury! When I were a lad if I wanted to talk to me mam we ‘ad to ‘ire a > relay team of Swiss yodellers to yodel a message from one side o’ t’valley to > t’other. ‘Appen she wuz wuckin’ dahn t’pit that day, it bein’ in Lancashire > like, we ‘ad t’ire a team of Ethiopian runners too, and a scribe, cuz > t’yodellers wouldn’t yodel into Lancashire on a Sunday. An’ we had to cleave > uz sticks uz sells for t’message, we couldn’t ‘ave ‘em cloven for us. > > But we were ‘appy. aye.
Not nearly as exciting, but when I was a teen and I went someplace in the evening, Mom would have me call collect for myself when I arrived safely and she’d reject the call so that it wouldn’t cost anything. -- Larry Colen [email protected] -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
