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FIRST YORKSHIREMAN:
Aye, very passable, that, very passable bit of smartphone.
SECOND YORKSHIREMAN:
Nothing like a good iPhone, eh, Josiah?
THIRD YORKSHIREMAN:
You're right there, Obadiah.
FOURTH YORKSHIREMAN:
Who'd have thought thirty year ago we'd all be sittin' here talking about phones, eh?
FIRST YORKSHIREMAN:
In them days we was glad to have the price of sending a letter.
SECOND YORKSHIREMAN:
A letter without a stamp.
FOURTH YORKSHIREMAN:
Without an envelope.
THIRD YORKSHIREMAN:
Or piece of paper.
FIRST YORKSHIREMAN:
In a damp mailbox, an' all.
FOURTH YORKSHIREMAN:
Oh, we never had a mailbox. We used a hollowed out tree.
THIRD YORKSHIREMAN:
But you know, we were happy in those days, though we were poor.
FIRST YORKSHIREMAN:
Because we were poor. My old Dad used to say to me, "Informtion doesn't buy you happiness, son".
FOURTH YORKSHIREMAN:
Aye, 'e was right.
FIRST YORKSHIREMAN:
Aye, 'e was.
FOURTH YORKSHIREMAN:
I was happier then and I had nothin'. We used to live in this tiny old house with a big satellite dish on the roof.
SECOND YORKSHIREMAN:
A satellite dish? You were lucky to have a satellite dish! We used to have cable TV, 60 channels, no MTV, no cooking channel, 'uddled together in in front of one telly.
THIRD YORKSHIREMAN:
Eh, you were lucky to have cable! We used to have to watch terrestrial!
FIRST YORKSHIREMAN:
Oh, we used to dream of watching television! Would ha' been a palace to us. We used to live in an old water tank on a rubbish tip. We got woke up every morning by local radio! TV? Huh.
Around here I ran out of ideas .... (thanks to Monty Python for the inspiration )
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