In a message dated 10/18/2000 1:17:21 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
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<< what the heck is a mongo,
    MONGO IS "SCRAP" BRASS OR BRONZE. MAY CONSIST OF COPPER PIPE, BRASS
FAUCETS, BRONZE HARDWARE, COPPER  CORNICES. MIGHT BE MORE 'HOT' THAN SCRAP.
NEXT YOU'LL BE ASKING WHAT IS MEANT BY VARIOUS WORDS USED IN THE CONSTRUCTION
INDUSTRY WHICH SOUND LIKE COMMON ANGLO-SAXON VULGARITIES, BUT ARE IN FACT
TERMS OF ART.

 and what got looted from GCT,

 SOME SORT OF LIGHT FIXTURE(S), APPARENTLY REPORTED LOST BY CONTRACTOR,
PRESUMABLE REPLACED AT GREAT EXPENSE UNDER CHANGE ORDER, SUBSEQUENTLY
ATTEMPTED TO BE SOLD ON EBAY .  NO DOUBT SOMEBODY WILL REPORT MORE RELIABLY
ON THIS, HAVING READ THE PAPER.
 what's GCT,
GRAND CENTRAL TERMINAL, SURVIVING NYC TRAIN STATION RESTORED AT HUGE EXPENSE
TO GENERAL ACCLAIM, ALTHOUGH RUSHED AT THE END TO PERMIT GOVERNOR TO DECLARE
IT COMPLETED UNDER HIS PERSONAL SUPERVISION.
 and what architectural firm does the lovely cybersurfing frank work for?
RT. REV. RHODES' BEYER BLINDER BELLE

 just curious, as I haven't had a chance to see the paper for about a
month....
THINK OF ALL THE TIME YOU SAVED
 and since my daughter didn't get the internship at QXR, I quit listening to
the
 web audio  ;)  TOO MUCH NOISE TO SIGNAL/TALK TO MUSIC RATIO ANYWAY. IF OUR
LURKERS DON'T LIKE THE PINHEADS' S/N RATIO, THEY WOULD HATE QXR.  ON THE
OTHER HAND, THE LURKERS ARE PROBABLY NPR TYPES AND MIGHT LIKE THE CEASELESS
JABBERING BETWEEN SNIPPETS OF MOZART.

SINCE YOU'RE THE CHISEL STORAGE EXPERT, AND THE LURKERS ARE WATCHING FOR
EVIDENCE THAT WE'RE STEALING CHANDELIERS AND PROVIDING USELESS BLATHER IN
LIEU OF ILLUMINATION, I SHOULD ADD THAT I RECENTLY USED ONE OF THE LATE
FRED'S CHISELS, WHICH HE KEPT (AS HAVE I) IN AN OIL-IMPREGNATED CANVAS
SLEEVE.  WHY THE CANVAS DOESN'T SPONTANEOUSLY COMBUST, I DON'T KNOW, BUT THE
CHISEL HADN'T RUSTED .

HOPE THE ABOVE COUNTS AS A SPOONFUL OF SIGNAL AMONG THE NOISE.

RALPH
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