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Dan Becker <[log in to unmask]>
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BULLAMANKA-PINHEADS The historic preservation free range.
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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.
>
>Dan,
>
>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
[log in to unmask]                       |        heretics live on forever"
                                                            -- Elbert
Hubbard

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