> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ken Follett
> Sent: Wednesday, October 16, 2002 9:41 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: So what's the deal on the expansion joints...
> 
> 
> Not fair to compare the mind-set of 
> production masons with those who tinker in histo presto or 
> really fine work. Histo presto masons usually get booted off 
> production jobs because they think.... thinking slows down 
> the process of setting brick. Thinking causes a commotion and 
> delays production.

As my high school English teacher used to interrupt when you began to
answer a question, "Well, I think...."

"Don't think...be sure!"

It goes both ways. Ralph's a smart-ass architect. What you have to watch
out for is the dumb-ass architects....

_______________________________________________________
Dan Becker,  Exec. Dir.   "The workman ought often to
Raleigh Historic           be thinking, and the thinker
Districts Commission       often to be working."
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919/890-3678 

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