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Roger Livesey {Actor} Related a funny story about a building site . Is there a written copy of this in existen

Livesey told this story to Oxford Undergraduates many years ago., and it was about a loaded bucket hitting him several times while going up and down


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Dozens!

The earliest (and with the best delivery) I've ever heard was by Gerard Hoffnung, he of the "advice to foreign visitors" and other pieces.
"All London brothels display a blue lamp...
On entering a railway carriage it is customary to shake hands with everyone present...
"Ignore Keep Left and Keep Right signs, they are merely political slogans..."

Plenty of variants and versions of the brick story here: