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

"Gutless Umbrella Carrying Sissy" <taustinca@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
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> I think you missed my point. When the alleged hapless repairman is
> initially lifting the bricks up to the roof, he weighs enough to do
> so. But when he's lowering them back down, after fini****ng, even
> though there are fewer bricks, he now weighs less than they do.

Where does it say that he lifts them up all at once?

>>
>>> 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.
>>
> If a character actually gets hurt, then it's obviously not
> suppopsed to be funny.

Agreed.  But it's a precise reconstruction of the story (other than the
180 
degree reversal) This can't be an accident, so it's supposed to be 
*something*.