Yes, but we didn't have a father, so our Uncle would beat us about the head and shoulders causing contusions and temporary unconsciousness, with a wet noodle! Then our other Uncle would send us fight killer rabbits in the hinter lands with the knights that say "nea"! I don't know what was worse the beatings or the knights with all their "neaing" and "clipty clopping" about! Sad bunch really... Sam Adam Maloney wrote: >Luxury. We used to have to get out of the lake at three o'clock in >the morning, clean the lake, eat a handful of hot gravel, go to >work at the mill every day for tuppence a month, come home, and Dad >would beat us around the head and neck with a broken bottle, if we >were LUCKY! > > >I *love* that skit. > >On Thu, 2003-10-09 at 10:36, John J. Trammell wrote: > > >>On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 09:12:56AM -0500, Sam MacDonald wrote: >> >> >>>Dang you all were lucky! I was put in a burlap sack, with 50 lbs of >>>rocks, tied closed at the top and tossed in the river! >>> >>> >>> >>Of course, when *I* was a boy, I had it rough. I used to >>*dream* of being put in a burlap sack with 50 pounds of >>rocks, tied closed at the top and tossed in the river! It >>would have been a palace to me. >> >>Apologies to Monty Python, er, Monty Perl. >> >> > >Adam Maloney >Systems Administrator >Sihope Communications > > >_______________________________________________ >TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org >https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > > _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list