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Reply To: | BULLAMANKA-PINHEADS The historic preservation free range. |
Date: | Sun, 23 Nov 1997 22:49:16 -0500 |
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>In a message dated 97-11-17 08:22:19 EST, [log in to unmask] writes:
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>> The correct term here is "fasodomy" or "facadomy," take your choice.
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>Dan,
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>Curious about the etomology
Yeah, this has always bugged me...er, ah, sorry, that's entomology...
here. Is "facadectomy" a sort of G&E invention
>that the _serious_ voices of usicomos, including what looks like a mix of
>Brits & Amerikans, are suggesting as a form of peurile HUMUS?
Don't read anything more into the term I prefer to use other than that I
think the practice of grafting new structures to a thin veneer of historic
facade sucks.
I first heard the term used by John Hildreth of the Southern Regional
Office of the National Trust. To him goes all the credit, unless he stole
it from somebody else.
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Dan Becker | "Conformists die, but
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-- Elbert
Hubbard
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