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

"Mike  Schilling" <mscottschilling@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> "Gutless Umbrella Carrying Sissy" <taustinca@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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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?

Why would he use a different procedure to bring them down than he 
used to lift them up? Why would there be no mention of the 
difference?
 
>>>
>>>> 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*.
> 
You don't really think this is a real story, do you?

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