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

throopw@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 (Wayne Throop) wrote in
news:1207081818@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 

>: Gutless Umbrella Carrying Sissy <taustinca@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>: And makes no mention of not doing so in lowering them.  It's an
>: obvious flaw in the joke.  It would be more plausible if some
>: mention were made of why it's different going down. 
> 
> The joke as I remember it, and as I google it on urban legend
> sites, goes 
> 
>    1) secure rope at ground level with empty barrel at top

This particular joke starts earlier, and thus, creates fail.

>    2) fill barrel with 300 lbs of leftover materials to return
>    to ground 3) unhook rope to lower
>    4) get lifted, smacking into barrel, then pulley
>    5) barrel hits ground, breaks, spills load
>    6) falls, hitting barrel halfway down
>    7) hits ground, lets go of rope
>    8) barrel falls and hits him.
> 
> In each case, the outweighing is fully explained.
> For the setup, he's at the end of a long work ****ft,
> and he's returning materials lifted from multiple lifts.
> One account I find being
> 
>     I discovered that I had, over the course of several trips up
>     the tower, brought up about 300 pounds of tools and spare
>     hardware. Rather than carry the now un-needed tools and
>     material down by hand, 
> 
> and continues
> 
>     I went back to the ground and untied the rope, holding it
>     tightly to ensure a slow descent of the 300 pounds of tools.
> 
> I think that coutns as an explicit mention that he was lowering
> differently than he was raising.
> 
If we were talking about that account, you'd have a point. But the 
rest of us are talking the one a the URL listed above, which has 
none of those details.

But thanks for playing. You can pick up your conslation prize on 
the way out.

-- 
Terry Austin

"There's no law west of the internet."
    - Nick Stump

Jesus forgives sinners, not criminals.