Dave Holford wrote:

"M. J. Powell" wrote:

In message , Mike Yetsko
writes

I don't know who's more stupid. The 'alleged' guy who wrote this BS
by modifying a story that's been floating around as an insurance claim
letter from the 60's, or the people who actually believe it.

The only intelligent guy in the whole mess is the unknown comedian

from probably the 50's that started the whole thing as the 'farm accident'.

It started life as part of a speech given by Gerard Hoffnung to the
Oxford Union (a debating society) in 1958. It was recorded by the BBC
and is available on a CD. In the original the unfortunate man is a
bricklayer explaining to his boss why he is absent from work.

Mike
--
M.J.Powell



Must be older than that since I left the UK in 1956 and clearly remember
having heard it prior to that time.

Dave

http://www.monologues.co.uk/Bricklayers_Story.htm
http://member.melbpc.org.au/~acal/stories/hoffnung.html

His mournful voice may be heard on cd even now...the delivery is
everything..

http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/...455863-4175056




mike

Mike Yetsko wrote:

I don't know who's more stupid. The 'alleged' guy who wrote this BS
by modifying a story that's been floating around as an insurance claim
letter from the 60's, or the people who actually believe it.

The only intelligent guy in the whole mess is the unknown comedian
from probably the 50's that started the whole thing as the 'farm accident'.

The 1850s.