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Originally Posted by jkirkthomas
I'd forgotten abgout this too, but now I remember seeing a film on it decades ago. It's easy to laugh at, along with a lot of other things that used to be the way things were done, but I like knowing about the old way of doing things. You never know when such knowledge might come in handy. I live in the mountains surrounded by forest and have a wood buring stove in my house that I can both heat and cook with. I'm not convinced this new-fangled electricity fad will last.
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I've heard that new-fangled 'lectric isn't safe!
If we had the rules then that we have now...we might not have electricity at all - or in abundant quantities, with huge powerlines criss-crossing the length and breadth of this great land!
Watching this, I was reminded of an old poem we hicks in S. Illinois used to say as we were growing up. It started like this...
In days of old, when knights were bold...
(of course, it wouldn't have been a 'sock' - but a 'portyanki'!