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Re: Taking shortcuts
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lugnet.off-topic.geek
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Wed, 21 Jul 2010 01:54:47 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.geek, James Trobaugh wrote:
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Rocks! Wow you must have been one of the rich kids that I heard about when
growing up. We would have killed to have rocks for doing our computations.
Our parents would hit us with a switch and use our backsides for doing their
fancy adding and such, if they made a mistake they had to wait for our skin
to heal so they could start over...tax season really sucked
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You were lucky! We didn’t even have skin! All we had was twine to try and keep
our entrails in! And they would leak out all over, and parents would beat us to
death each night for mussing up the floor!
JOHN
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Message is in Reply To:
 | | Re: Taking shortcuts
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| (...) Rocks! Wow you must have been one of the rich kids that I heard about when growing up. We would have killed to have rocks for doing our computations. Our parents would hit us with a switch and use our backsides for doing their fancy adding and (...) (14 years ago, 21-Jul-10, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, FTX)
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