concocted still lives and so forth...

[kev curry]

'Sleep in a hole'... you were lucky, we were so poor, that for an occasional treat a Christmas time we would give Grandpa a old peppermint to suck and then we would all sit around his tongue

Steve, bet there still hilarious

[Shen45]

There is something to be said for British humour -- it is actually funny

[jwaddison]

My grandfather said that he and his brothers were so poor that at Christmas his parents would cut holes in their pockets so they'd have something to play with.