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Title: Made me laugh
Post by: jul bri on July 23, 2011, 12:59:37 PM

Made me laugh. whilst listening to some old irish folk song this one come up, Have not held it for a lone time. http://www.we7.com/song/Brier/The-Sick-Note-Bricklayers-Song?m=0
might put a smile on a few faces   enjoy.

Title: Made me laugh
Post by: Colwyn on July 23, 2011, 17:44:10 PM

I prefer the version by Gerard Hoffnung from his Oxford Union address in 1958. He intoduces it like this:

I've got this thing here that I must read to you.
Now, this is a very tragic thing... I shouldn't, really, read it out.
A striking lesson in keeping the upper lip stiff is given in a recent number of the weekly bulletin of 'The Federation of Civil Engineering Contractors' that prints the following letter from a bricklayer in Golders Green to the firm for whom he works.

It begins "Respected Sir" but this missing from the audio.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZUJLO6lMhI