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From: rdp@teddy.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Insurance Company
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Date: Thu, 5-Dec-85 07:12:32 EST
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Posted: Thu Dec  5 07:12:32 1985
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In article <335@muddcs.UUCP> sroth@muddcs.UUCP (Steve Roth) writes:
>
>					March 22, 1984
>
>XXX Insurance Company
>1252 - 6th Street
>Hoboken, New Jersey  65656
>
>Dear Sir:
>
>  long letter about a bricklayers contrived mishaps
>
>
>--- Author unknown
>    Happy Holidays!

To the best of my knowledge, the author of this tale is one Gerard
Hofnung, a now deceased British comedian of Hofnung's Interplanetary
Music Festival fame, who related this tale in his famous "Oxford
Union Debate" somewhere about 1958. His original telling is so deadpan
as to be hilarious.