What nails? Them gizmoz are expensive!
-jc
On Monday, April 21, 2003, at 09:47 PM, Ralph Walter wrote:
> In a message dated 4/21/2003 12:03:17 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
> [log in to unmask] writes:
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> I ain't buyin' this story for a nanosecond."
>
> "These are probably the same guys that remember walking to school in
> the snow ten miles there and back uphill both ways."
>
> It is fascinating that we are so sure of our own realities that we
> have a hard time accepting something out of our common knowledge. OK,
> Mr. Sophisticated Exile to the Great North Woods, you explain to us
> how it is that a dynamited wood frame building has its' nails removed
> by the blast (but is evidently otherwise undamaged enough to allow
> reassembly), and the boards land in such a manner (and condition) as
> to make it possible to identify their original location in the
> structure and reassemble them in the same configuration. George
> Frederic Handle Isn't he that Citizens' Band guy? summed it up in the
> famous line from "The Messiah" - "Oh we, like sheep, have gone
> astray." We are indeed like sheep. (I know some choruses sing it
> "Oh, we like sheep!" Those would be Greek Choruses, wouldn't they,
> Nick? Would my associate from Law School sing "Oh, we like melons"?
> but that is just reading themselves into the reality by not reading
> fully the message of commas on the page.)
>
> Yep, urban myths are documentable and fascinating. So is the
> "Dynamite Church." As an exurban myth? Or as a tall tale? In the
> history research business I pursue as part of the restoration work, I
> am always amazed at how many variations there have been on the human
> experience, and that more often than not, the real thing from another
> time is more amazing than any fantasy one might dream up. David
> Lowenthal wrote a book about historic interpretation/presentation
> called "The Past is a Foreign Country." I got no argument with the
> idea that weird stuff happened in the olden days, but dynamiting a
> wooden church to remove the nails and reassembling the pieces is just
> not credible. Or if you think it's such a good idea, try selling your
> new Heritage Canuck friends on it as a means of repairing your
> dirt-floored mill. Or flush an M-80 down the toilet next time you
> need to clear a clogged waste line at home.
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> Bone swa mon a'mee. Whassamatta, English not good enough for you
> anymore? Or you talkin' Creole to Da Pyrate?
>
> cp in bc
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> Ralph ( A True Merkin, and proud of it, by jingo)
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