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Re: [TowerTalk] Story of the injured tower climber explaining to his ins

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Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Story of the injured tower climber explaining to his insurance company
From: jimlux <jimlux@earthlink.net>
Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2018 09:59:01 -0700
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On 10/13/18 9:45 AM, David Gilbert wrote:

That story goes back well before the ham radio version.  I remember reading a version at least 50 years ago that involved a bale of hay and a barn pulley.


barrel of bricks, etc.
online:
This is quite an old story, reckoned by folklorists to date back at least 80 years. It's a comedy staple, in fact, has turned up in numerous recordings, radio shows, movies and novels since the 1930s.

And newspapers. A classic version that made the rounds in the late 1950s under headlines on the order of "Saddened Bricklayer Asks for Sick Leave" was attributed to an anonymous bricklayer in Barbados.

Jan Harold Brunvand describes it in "Curses, Broiled Again!" an excellent book about urban legends. (the title refers to tanning bed mishaps and prom queens)

He says an Irish-dialect version appeared in 1918. folklorists classify it as Tale Type 32, Motif K651 - Wolf descends into well in one bucket and rescues fox in the other.

He debunks the claim that it dates back to 1776.
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