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From: pitre@n5160d.nrl.navy.mil (Richard Pitre)
Subject: Re: A programmer gets a part time job
Date: 1996/03/19
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Date: 1996-03-19T00:00:00+00:00
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In article <dewar.827204776@schonberg> dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) writes:
> 
> ger
>   I was really startled to see this story appearing in prose, because
>   I heard it about 13 years ago on the radio (Dick Cerry's Music Americana
>   show) in the form of an Irish-American folk song entitled "Why McNulty's
>   Not at Work Today".  If you thought it was funny in prose, you should
>   have heard it sung with an Irish lilt.  I suspect that the author of
>   the song may have been of the sort who wear orange on March 17th, and
>   that he may have written it in the same spirit as "Who Put the Overalls
>   in Mrs. Murphy's Chowder".  Pass it back.
> Tom"
> 
> No, no! it is MUCH older than that, and the author is a favorite of mine.
> Do people really not know these comedy routines?

Robert

Feel free to chastise or jail me for laziness or whatever.
I don't know where to begin to look. 
Who wrote it?

richard