All we had was a piece of Cardboard to live in....

[PaulS]

Hi, i need your help.
I am chasing the script from that radio play (i think thats what it was) that has the irishmen talking about what they had when they were growing up, and they would out do each other...

something like this... (in modern terms)

When i was a kid we only had a 12inch colour tv..

Gee you had it good, we didn't have tv, we had to listen to the radio....


etc...

Can anyone help!

Thanks

Paul

[Daddles]

It was two Cornishmen and it's a Monty Python skit. That might help you google it. Lovely skit that.

Richard

[craigb]

I thought it was two Yorkshire men.

edit: Actually, here you go:

http://www.phespirit.info/montypython/four_yorkshiremen.htm

[Daddles]

I thought it was two Yorkshire men.

edit: Actually, here you go:

http://www.phespirit.info/montypython/four_yorkshiremen.htm

You're right ... of course, but I started to type this before you put up the link. That's scary, you press the button for a quote and the message is different to what it was a moment ago :eek:

Richard

[silentC]

two Cornishmen
Close!

;)

[Daddles]

two Cornishmen


Close!

;)

Don't tell a Yorshireman that :D

Just read the script - could hear the accents in me head n all. Ahh, them was the days. Didn't have a radio ...:D

Richard

[snowyskiesau]

This sketch (or a version of it) was originally done on 'At last, the 1948 Show!' in the late 1960's so pre-dated Python.

[bitingmidge]

Errr.... HOW many yorkshiremen?

P
:rolleyes:

[bitingmidge]

This sketch (or a version of it) was originally done on 'At last, the 1948 Show!' in the late 1960's so pre-dated Python.
I guess that since Cleese, Idle and Chapman were a core of the '48 show, it probably was an evolution of the original idea then!

Cheers,

P;)

[Gumby]

I've got it here somewhere. It was more than 2 though. There were 4 or 5 of them in the Monty Python version.

Cardboard box ! LOOxury ! We lived in rolled up newspaper in middle of road.

[PaulS]

Gentlemen,
thanks for your help.
I knew you would come through with the goods.

Paul

[Gumby]

http://www.phespirit.info/montypython/four_yorkshiremen.htm

:D :D

[silentC]

What was that someone said recently about reading what others had posted :rolleyes:

:p

[Gumby]

Doh ! :o

Not me. :rolleyes:

Think I'll go and find a 5 year old thread to open.

:o

[Ianab]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xe1a1wHxTyo


Tell that to the young people of today, they wont believe ya.

:D

[Jack Plane]

We was so poor that:

Cousin in NZ couldn't afford gloves & had to have a sheep in each pocket to keep hands warm.

Couldn't afford heating - Dad sucked a peppermint & we all sat round his tongue.

Only had a handfull of hot gravel for breakfast.

[Tex B]

Peppermint! Luxury. Mum used to feed us dried apples for breakfast, a glass of water for lunch, and for dinner we'd just sit around and swell up.

Tex

[underused]

I thought it was two Yorkshire men.

edit: Actually, here you go:

http://www.phespirit.info/montypython/four_yorkshiremen.htm

:D classic sketch

[bitingmidge]

We was so poor that:
One of the reasons I am as I am, is that at school, I couldn't even afford to pay attention.

P
:cool:

[Landseka]

My sister was so skinny as a teen she had to run around in the shower to get wet! :D

[sea dragon]

Luxury for all of you. Sheer luxury.
I had to sleep in Tonga to be able to go over the International Date Line to do yesterday's work every day and would be brought back for the 40 minutes of my weekends off. But I was lucky!!!!!!!!!!
I could have been a LUMBERJACK!!!!!!!!!!!!