On 29 Mar 2004 09:26:26 GMT, Nick Maclaren wrote:

In article m,
Tim Challenger "timothy(dot)challenger(at)apk(dot)at" writes:
| On Mon, 29 Mar 2004 09:52:37 +0100, Mary Fisher wrote:
|
| You youngsters are just wimps. Where and when I was born, there
|
| ...were 120 of us, livin' in a septic tank. And in the mornin' we 'ad to
| get up an' lick 'road clean wit' tongues. ;-)
|
| You had clean roads?
|
| There's posh!
|
| They were clean, aye, but cuvver'd in dribble.

The very idea of licking roads clean! That implies that they were
surfaced - if you tried that where I was, you would have had to
lick down to the bedrock.

.... an'd you try tellin' that t' the yungsters of today, An' they won't
believe you. ;-)

Sorry, just to difficult to resist. Any excuse for a Monty Python sketch.
--
Tim C.