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

Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> Gutless Umbrella Carrying Sissy <taustinca@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> writes:
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>> "Mike  Schilling" <mscottschilling@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in
>> news:3ovIj.3843$p24.3047@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 
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>> > 
>> > "Gutless Umbrella Carrying Sissy" <taustinca@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote
>> > in message news:Xns9A7365AB1760Btaustingmail@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> >>
>> >> 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?
> 
> But it does -- he lifted up "several" barrels; presumably they
> are each less enough than full that he weighs more than they do.
>  Then he had "a lot" of bricks left over -- apparently more than
> any single barrelful on the lifting phase.

It's a flaw in the story to not explain it.

> <snip>
>> > 
>> You don't really think this is a real story, do you?
> 
> But I read it on usenet on April Fool's!  It's *got* to be true!
> 
Indeed. April 1 is the day that all ISPs recharge the internet with 
barrels of stupid.

-- 
Terry Austin

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

Jesus forgives sinners, not criminals.