Re: Why didn't you tell me about this before?

"Gutless Umbrella Carrying Sissy" <taustinca@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> "Mike Schilling" <mscottschilling@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> Terry Austin wrote:
>>
>>>>
>>> Written slapstick is very hard to even do, much less do well.
>>> There are examples, but the only one that comes to mind is Bill
>>> the Galactic Hero, but that would be the former, but definitely
>>> not the latter.
>>
>> I think this works well on the page, though it is funnier when
>> read aloud.
>>
>> http://www.bluegum.com/Humour/Assorted/bricks.html
>>
> Aside from the obvious physics errors (doesn't weigh enough on the
> way down, did on the way up?),

Its weight changes when it breaks and the bricks spill out.

> and the fact that it was on
> Mythbusters, it works, I suppose.

It was shown at the start of "Pig in the City", but backwards: going down
a 
well insteads of up to a roof.  I didn't find it very funny, possibly 
because it resulted in a sympathetic character being badly hurt.