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

tmcd@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 (Tim McDaniel) wrote in
news:ft0tre$hln$1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 

> And we're going around again and again on "The Barrel of
> Bricks", just like plenty of times before in this newsgroup. 
> And people are trying to find "out"s: "Why didn't the employer
> just post a sign 'Do Not Load A Barrel With More Than You
> Weigh'?", "What if he just didn't load the barrel as much?",
> "Why doesn't he just let go immediately and get out of the
> way?", "Why doesn't he have an antigravity/gravity belt?", and 
> so forth.
> 
> All the replies are missing the point.  Campbell didn't see it,
> which is why he sent back "The Barrel of Bricks" for extra
> rewrites, trying to find a way to get the main character out. 
> But the point is that the Universe doesn't care about people.
> 
>     F = (-9.8 m/s/s) a
> 
> is a cold equation that cannot be argued with.
> 
You've missed the point, too. It's a joke, not a real life 
incident.

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Terry Austin

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