Arnold:
>Hey, having a _vending_ machine and getting schoolwide internet hookup
on
>our school's IBM 386 computers senior year were luxuries.^_^

Our school just got about four scores of pentiums!!!

><Michael Palin voice on>
>"Right.  I had to get up in the morning, at 10:00 at night, half an hour
>before I went to bed.  Drink a cup of sulfuric acid. <Pay the school
>board for permission to go to school and spend 26 hrs a day in class.> 
>And when I got home, my parents would kill me and dance about on my
>grave singing 'Hallelujah.'"
><Michael Palin voice off>

Let me tell you sonny, let me set you straight! You kids today ain't
never had it rough. Always had everything handed to you on a silver
plate. You lazy brats think nothings good enough. 
Well, Nobody ever drove me to school when it was 90 degrees below. Had to
walk but naked through 80 miles of snow.
Worked in a coal mine twenty-two hours a day for just half a cent. Had to
sell my internal oragans just to pay the rent.

I could go one but I don't feel like typing all of I was Your Age by
Weird Al.

There is one thing everbody says we need that the board will not
authorize. Another school!!! This school is three times the capacity of
what it was designed for already. I mean all they have to do is reopen
one of the three other high schools they closed back in the 80s. Do they?
NOOOoooo. They spend a million dollars so that we can watch the mating
habits of a sea anenome on a movie screen in THX Dolby surround. (The
class is now deaf.) Heck, I'm the only kid in the school who mows his own
lawn. My dad's theory is if you have a strong son why should you pay
anybody else to mow your lawn or wash the car. And I don't use a gas
powered mower either. No it isn't electric. It's a pusher. Mark 1 human
engine.

-Ted Wang