MONTY PYTHON ON BEING POOR

1. After reading the You Had A Bed? article my fellow former member of the "Poor Mouth Club", recalling that I am a Monty Python fan,  sent the following Monty Python skit:
2.               MONTY PYTHON ON BEING POOR
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   Michael Palin: You were lucky. We lived for three months in a brown paper bag in a septic tank. We used to have to get up at six o'clock in the morning, clean the bag, eat a crust of stale bread, go to work down mill for 14 hours a day, week in, week out. When we got home, our Dad would thrash us to sleep with his belt!
   Graham Chapman: 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!
   Terry Gilliam: Well we had it tough. We used to have to get up out of the shoebox at 12 o'clock at night and lick the road clean with our tongues. We had half a handful of freezing cold gravel, worked 24 hours a day at the mill for fourpence every six years, and when we got home, our Dad would slice us in two with a bread knife.
   Eric Idle: I had to get up in the morning at 10 o'clock at night, half an hour before I went to bed, eat a lump of cold poison, work 29 hours a day down mill, and pay mill owner for permission to come to work, and when we got home, our Dad would kill us, and dance about on our graves singing "Hallelujah."
   Michael Palin: But you try and tell the young people today that, and they won't believe ya'.
   All: Nope, nope. (Monty Python, "Four Yorkshiremen," 1974)

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