...on line means something toatally else in the computer age?

On line ahn layn
1. Endless waits in queues at the Post Office while the three smelly old drunks who got there first attempt 79 unlikely transactions involving import of pornography from Bratislava
2. Endless waits in cyberspace while the three odourless drunks who got there first try to download 79 pages of improbably chested pornography from California

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