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28 Aug 12 - 08:45 AM (#3396351) Subject: the sick note From: kendall I'm almost certain that this subject is in the dt somewhere if I had the time to find it. That old joke about Paddy and the barrel of bricks just appeared on the TV show, Urban Legends. Talk about recycling. |
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28 Aug 12 - 09:12 AM (#3396373) Subject: RE: the sick note From: Scabby Douglas Putting "sick note" into the Search field on the Home page brought up about 6 pages of links. From memory, I suspect that most of them are the same old discussion about who wrote it (Pat Cooksey/Noel Murphy /Gerard Hoffnung ). The words are definitely in amongst it all, too. |
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28 Aug 12 - 09:28 AM (#3396385) Subject: RE: the sick note From: Leadfingers Gerard Hoffnung - Speech to The Oxford Union , based on a Magazine Article , turned into a song by Pat Cooksey , and put in The Top Fifty by Noel Murphy . |
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28 Aug 12 - 09:56 AM (#3396402) Subject: RE: the sick note From: Dave MacKenzie It was in a thread entitled "The Bricklayer's Lament (The Sick Note)" less than a month ago, occasioned by the BBC broadcasting a wireless program to celebrate Hoffnung's address to the Oxford Union. |
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28 Aug 12 - 10:07 AM (#3396406) Subject: RE: the sick note From: GUEST,kendall I entered the sick note in the dt. nothing. I tried Paddys not at work, nothing. I don't use that section often enough to get familiar with it. |
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28 Aug 12 - 10:40 AM (#3396423) Subject: RE: the sick note From: GUEST Where it was wasn't the point anyway. |
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28 Aug 12 - 12:46 PM (#3396505) Subject: RE: the sick note From: Thomas Stern http://monologues.co.uk/004/Bricklayers_Story.htm best wishes, Thomas. |
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28 Aug 12 - 12:55 PM (#3396518) Subject: RE: the sick note From: maeve That's funny about the bricklayer story showing up on the tv show, Kendall. If you do want to find something like that another time, I have excellent results just putting the term into the filter search, setting the length of time accordingly. It is much more inclusive than the DT search. |
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28 Aug 12 - 07:28 PM (#3396702) Subject: RE: the sick note From: Joe Offer I did my best to find all our threads on this song, and I came up with thirty - all now listed in the crosslinks above. I think the earliest was Thread Number 32, begun October 15, 1996, two weeks after the inception of Mudcat. If you see any others, please let me know about them. This song has an incredible number of titles. Songwriter Pat Cooksey, a sometime Mudcatter, titled it "The Sick Note." It's also commonly called "Why Paddy's Not at Work Today," and "Bricklayer's Lament." See above for a host of other names. Cooksey got the idea from a 1958 monologue by German musician and humorist Gerard Hoffnung. I suppose the best explanation is in this message from Pat Cooksey dated 11 May 2002. Sooner or later, I may try to combine those thirty threads down to a more reasonable number, but it's kinda interesting to have them all intact for now. -Joe- |
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28 Aug 12 - 07:51 PM (#3396713) Subject: RE: the sick note From: Bill D As *I* posted in one of those many threads, this story was once listed in Readers Digest as actually happening to an apple picker in Nova Scotia. |
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28 Aug 12 - 08:01 PM (#3396719) Subject: RE: the sick note From: Joe Offer Now, can anybody find that Readers Digest article? Pat Cooksey's message says it was published in 1937, and was performed in music halls in the 1920s. -Joe- |