Don’t go forgetting your physics

In the sketch Zadornov would read from a letter, in which the supposed writer describes his attempt to steal bricks from an empty construction site. The man dreams of building an extension onto his house, but has previously shown little aptitude for practical subjects or for science at school. Nonetheless he undertakes to build the extension himself. Obviously, to do the building work, he needs bricks, but why should he buy them when there is an empty construction site next to his house? Beautiful, new, unclaimed bricks lie on the sixth floor of a block where no one has appeared for work for the last year or so. It seems an act of providence, but why should he run up and down the stairs carrying such a heavy load? Surely Slavs are famous for their ingenuity? The builders lifted these bricks up using a device that was ingenious in its simplicity (though perhaps never seen in any other country). It consists of a wooden barrel tied to a rope that goes through a pulley hanging from the six