[TowerTalk] Tower Incident Joke

[Alan NV8A]

On 12/03/10 12:18 pm, jimlux wrote:

>> A few years ago, someone (a ham) sent a story around, actually a joke
>> someone put together having to do with a ham climbing a tower, the climber
>> falling..only to meet the toolbag halfway down, etc.
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>> I recall reading it and laughing aloud.
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>> Not that falling from a tower is funny, mind you.
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>> Does anyone recall what I’m talking about and perhaps have a copy of that
>> story/joke?
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> a variant on the old "barrel of bricks" story, no doubt?

Gerard Hoffnung's version of it was played from time to time on BBC 
Radio WIWAL:

http://www.bluegum.com/Humour/Assorted/bricks.html

73

Alan NV8A