Last summer My wife ,the preservation architect was working on her "Foundation " of make up when I tried to get into the bathroom door "your what" I hollered from the other side "My patina " One summer i was working a limestone wall on Columbia' university 's corner at I think 115 th street and Amsterdam . We were about 50 ft in the air and the architect wanted us to remove one of the limestone panels at the corner to examine the anchoring system . The building was from about 1910 , and when I removed the first panel there written on the steel I beam in chalk was the distinct message from my brothers in labor from long ago ........"Fuck you " Not long ago I had an opportunity to visit the Dordogne where the 17,000 BC prehistoric cave paintings are ; Fantastic images abounded in the light as a group of masonry professionals ooh ed and ahhed , over zoom orphic bulls , horses . and forms of wild life now extinct ... and there below it all was one solitary stick figure a human with a hard on that seemed to sum up all of mans creative endeavors since he has been on the planet . My 7th grade biology teacher used to hold up a shell that was 5 million years old . The shell was a mollusk of a spiral type of creature that contributed to the making of much of Americas limestone . Then he would hold up a mollusk of the same creature that was only a million years old He asked us to look close as to what the difference was as it might be a clue as to why we are here . The students looked very closely as the shells were almost identical in size shape and color but closer examination showed that the newer spiral shell had its face a little more farther away than its butt . We were profoundly impressed . Py -- To terminate puerile preservation prattling among pals and the uncoffee-ed, or to change your settings, go to: <http://listserv.icors.org/archives/bullamanka-pinheads.html>