> Ditto...what Sam said.
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> Gri"in case he doesn't reply...why 'brickboy?'"shny

Thanks, everybody. Dad will be thrilled to learn that people he hasn't even met are thinking of him.

"Brickboy" comes from when he was a bricklayer, before he went to college. Also, he used to work for my grandfather's industrial furnace maintanence business, doing very precise bricklaying in the molten metal furnaces. He made a dummy named "brickboy" which was dressed in the factory's uniform, andhe and his coworkers would play pranks using "brickboy"--- hanging him from the cafeteria ceiling, hiding him in someone's closet, putting him under someone's car in the parking lot, and son on. It was funnier than I make it sound.