BULLAMANKA-PINHEADS Archives

The listserv where the buildings do the talking

BULLAMANKA-PINHEADS@LISTSERV.ICORS.ORG
Options: Use Forum View

Use Monospaced Font
Show Text Part by Default
Condense Mail Headers

Message: [<< First] [< Prev] [Next >] [Last >>]
Topic: [<< First] [< Prev] [Next >] [Last >>]
Author: [<< First] [< Prev] [Next >] [Last >>]

Print Reply
Sender:
"BP - \"Preservationists shouldn't be neat freaks.\" -- Mary D" <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Wed, 2 Aug 2000 15:42:56 -0500
Reply-To:
[log in to unmask]
Subject:
Re: OK, let's open discussion on the Poe House...
MIME-Version:
1.0
Content-Transfer-Encoding:
7bit
Content-Type:
text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Organization:
EDGE Development Construction
From:
"J.A. Drew Diaz" <[log in to unmask]>
Parts/Attachments:
text/plain (20 lines) 
Ken Follett wrote:

>
> I see more sense in preserving the Brooklyn Bridge for the argument that
> poets like to jump off it and that we need to preserve this cultural
> infrastructure for the inspiration of future usage. You never know when angst
> will prevail.
>

Actually-



The technical term for jumping off of the Brooklyn Bridge is "Take a Brodie" or
"Do a Brodie"
as in Steve Brodie who claimed to have jumped from the BB, on a $100 bet &
survived in 1886 and rode the fame to a career as a saloon keeper.

DD

ATOM RSS1 RSS2