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<[log in to unmask]>, John 
Dunlop <[log in to unmask]> writing at 12:26:24 in his/her local time 
opines:-
>Terry said :
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>> My great-grand parents raised my father, and I knew them very well in my
>> younger years.  The last house they lived in had 4 rooms, each with a
>> single light bulb hanging in the middle of the room.  They never had
>> indoor plumbing of any sort (in or out), heated the entire house with a
>> coal stove in the 'front room' and cooked with coaloil (kerosene to most
>> of you).  Never had telephone service.  I remember the morning chores:
>> draw water from the cistern, clean coal clinkers from the stove, take
>> them out and refill the coal bucket, and empty the 'slop jars'.  Ahh the
>> memory of trips to the outhouse on cold January mornings.
>> All this in the early 60's in western Kentucky.  My father lived through
>> times with exciting change.
>>
>
>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.
>
>:o)
>
>Cheers,
>John

Paper bag wi' no 'oles in it? Soom people don't know they're born....

We 'ad to write MPE software 28 hours a day, carvin' oles in poonched 
cards wi' a rusty old spoon, then walk seven miles to the High Wood to 
gather gruts for dinner, and seven miles back...

I see your Monty Python 'Four Yorkshiremen' and raise you.... :-) ?

-- 
Roy Brown        'Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be
Kelmscott Ltd     useful, or believe to be beautiful'  William Morris

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