Welcome:

The question should be, how much more should you have laughed before crying.
Crying at the end would have been a nice touch.

New question: Are you going to bring VULCAN with you to this years IPTW in
Harrisburg?

Bryan

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Bode Morin wrote:

> Good Afternoon,
>
> As a means of  introduction, assuming I read the rules correctly, I will
> pose a question of etiqutte.
>
> I am Bode Morin, curator at Sloss Furnaces National Historic Landmark-a 32
> acre blast furnace complex in Birmingham, Alabama.  Curator here really
> transposes to 35% preservation coordinator, 45% municipal bureacuracy
> guide,10% industrial archaeolgist, and 10% sayer of things like "That's a
> great idea boss.  But if we run the line overhead and clamp it to the
> structure like the guy suggested, we won't have to dig a trench through the
> last remaining intact sand casting floor in the world.  Plus we'll save ten
> percent on the installation costs."  and "I agree that some of the workers
> probably did eat their lunches there, but I don't think gutting the scale
> house for a resturant is actually using a property for its historic
> purpose."
>
> Anyway, three years ago, the (insert bad word here) management company that
> books parties and concerts for Sloss (which recently included a three day
> Christian Rock festival that curiously caused more damage and vandalism to
> the site than all of punk rock/heavy metal events combined) took over the
> site from mid September to the end of October (as soon as the well
> respected and well attended jazz and blues festival had its first bad year)
> for a haunted-house/fright-furnace event which is apparently all the rage
> in the festival promotions industry.  In concept the idea isn't a bad one.
> Yes at night  it can get pretty scary around here.  Yes it draws and extra
> 20,000 people to the site.  But as you can imagine, we take a pretty big
> hit in trash and damage that literally takes us three months to recover
> from.  Did I mention we only get 1000 dollars from the (insert bad word
> here) management company?
>
> This year to promote the event, the group is producing a scary video full
> of the necessary disinformation that includes a death rate that far excedes
> the capital punishment rates for Texas and Florida.  To give the video an
> air of authority, the (insert bad word here) management company scripted a
> historian/curator to "confirm" the information presented by the narrator.
>
> After describing the video, the caller said implyingly, "you're a
> curator..." and after not hear anything on the line, he added  "...we think
> you'd be perfect for the role."
>
> My question of etiquette is:  Should I have done more than just laugh at
> the caller for a few seconds and hang up the phone?