Fixture Wound...very cool.  Can it be modified?  Gaping fixture 
wound...fissure fixture wound...flaming fisure fixture wound...

Its not enough that he's employed?  You want big words too!  Geez!  and 
they say I'm demanding!

-jc

On Thursday, July 24, 2003, at 09:54  AM, Met History wrote:

> In a message dated 7/24/03 10:41:43 AM Eastern Daylight Time, 
> [log in to unmask] writes:
>
>
> Although I have seen managers become
> a little unnerved by maintenance staff who can refer to the standards,
> briefs and reports.
>
>
>
> I'm proud of my son Peter, who is working for a big tough real estate 
> firm this summer inventorying hazardous conditions in their 40+ 
> million square feet in NYC (the liability exposure of hiring a 19 yo 
> to do this is interesting).
>
> What I'm proud of is
>
> a) he used the word "ubiquitous" in a report (the first time I suspect 
> that word has ever been used in one of their documents
>
> b) he invented a term for the damage on a wall left by ripping out a 
> beautiful old fixture and replacing it with some cheap crap:  "fixture 
> wound".  I thought that was a cool coinage.  How do others refer to > it?
>
> Christopher "Preservation-L" Gray