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[pethier at comcast.net]

> From: "Brian Jones" <tr4zest at gmail.com>
> 
> (Mark: Brick = a reliable, dependable, popular associate in UK slang,
> at
> least where I grew up in Liverpool.)

Not just Liverpool.  In many English books I have read, I have seen one character tell another in times of stress:  "You've been a brick.  An absolute brick."

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