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opebo
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« on: August 28, 2013, 10:47:18 AM »

Whatever ever happened to that Yankee virtue of understatement?

Maybe they're Jews and whatnot.
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« Reply #1 on: August 30, 2013, 05:12:37 PM »

This is the most beautiful thing, architecturally speaking, created in the 18th centure, Al:

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« Reply #2 on: September 02, 2013, 07:44:42 AM »

No. There is a considerable difference that I notice when I'm in River Oaks or Tanglewood driving past the homes of the Bushes and the Hobbys and the Bakers - the old, sedate brick houses that signal nothing to the outsider but offer craftsmanship and history to those privileged enough to step inside - and when I'm driving through an outer-ring McMansion development with faux-Mediterranean nightmares that can barely fit on the lots they were built on and that are plastered with every kind of ornament the tract home developer could think of. There's a difference between the matron driving to the Junior League luncheon in her old but perfectly well-kept Mercedes E-Class and the bleach-blonde financial advisor's wife wearing massive designer sunglasses and careening across lanes of traffic in a G-Class with the dealer tags still on it.

Perhaps it is a slight difference in tone, but the distinction should not be enough to spare either from their just desert - the guillotine.
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