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The Barrel of Bricks Story
By Hal Davis

When I first saw this story I sat down and hand-copied it and saved
that copy for many years until I got a mimeograph machine.  Then I
typed up a stencil and made several dozens of copies and handed them
out.

At that time I was working as an electronics technician for the
University of Michigan at the Willow Run Research Center.  I helped
construct the MIDAC, MIchigan Digital Automatic Computer, which was one
of the first large main-frame computers.  I was there in 1951 and 1952
and the first half of 1953, so it would have been during that time that
the 'Load of Bricks Story', as I knew it then, was current.

Hal Davis

 [ My retired newspaper-writer friend recalls seeing the story on
 [ the news-wires in that era, too.  He feels that the humor first
 [ appeared much earlier, perhaps in the 1920s, and says it's
 [ "a delightful chestnut to be warmed-over again and again."
 [ -- Robbie


(Message sent Fri 3 Apr 1998, 20:43:48 GMT, from time zone GMT-0800.)

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