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I've driven through that area and am pretty sure I've noticed those very wires. This particular plot of land is located in an absolute wasteland sandwiched between the 'hood of East Menlo Park and some funky looking wetlands at the edge of the Bay.
 
datadyne007 said:
Sweet victory.

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Congratulations on the worst mistake of your life!
Welcome to the club. Now get yourself a professional degree and a job.
 
Chicago is next with more than 670,000 students, followed by Washington, D.C., and Philadelphia, each home to slightly more than 450,000 college students. Boston is next with nearly 400,000 college students.
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I'm curious how the metro areas are defined for this purpose. For instance, does Philadelphia's go all the way out to encompass Haverford, Bryn Mawr, Swarthmore, and Villanova?
 
Lurker said:

Congratulations on the worst mistake of your life!
Welcome to the club. Now get yourself a professional degree and a job.
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I never actually read a diploma, always kinda put them in a drawer. I wonder how the choose what words to capitalize and which to not, it seems pretty random. Also, "In the year of Our Lord" is Wentworth religiously affiliated at all? I didn't think it was
 
No, but all colleges use the diploma language from the medieval times. The whole idea of college/the graduation/cap, gown, hood is based off Christian traditions.
 
Endlich wird sie produktiv! ;-)
(Finally, she is productive)

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Hahahaha. Döner <3
 
So the GOP is simply flaunting how outrageous they are now. How much longer can this party survive? And yet the media doesn't cover most of the insanity they commit. Fucking politics.

At least the Dems try to look nice, even if they're making us take it in the butt just as much.
 
Cafe from Hell, Paris:

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Question: How come this looks so cool in old-timey B&W photos but if you tried to build something like this today it would look like a cheap Disney attraction?
 
I'm sure it looked and felt like a Disney attraction in person.
 
Plaster instead of foam. More grain in the film print. But the Heaven and Hell bar pairing is kind of cheesy (but fun)!

(Wonder how Helena Bonham Carter got that seat on the left.)
 
datadyne007 said:
I'm sure it looked and felt like a Disney attraction in person.
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I guess that's the gut of my question. I really don't know enough about turn of century Parisian culture to know if this would have been a tacky/fun type place (was that even a concept at the time?) or would it have been more of an avant garde type place where the beatnik types would hang out?
 
statler said:
I guess that's the gut of my question. I really don't know enough about turn of century Parisian culture to know if this would have been a tacky/fun type place (was that even a concept at the time?) or would it have been more of an avant garde type place where the beatnik types would hang out?
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Well, just look at the ridiculous design of the Metro (Metropolitain) stations.

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Art Nouveau swept Paris and you can feel the influence of Gaudi's organic forms from Spain.
 
statler said:
Question: How come this looks so cool in old-timey B&W photos but if you tried to build something like this today it would look like a cheap Disney attraction?
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Because things we consider tacky are things we're used to, whereas this was probably a novelty?

I mean, football used to be considered a rich people's sport. Tastes and attitudes change with time.
 
I swear the internet is more unbearable during the election season than it is on April 1st. Politics manage to seep into discussions about the most apolitical topics everywhere.

Just want to shut down my computer until Nov 7.
 
At least you don't live in Tampa and your local news portal wasn't transformed into this:

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Beton Brut said:
I'd like to spend a weekend with her, and a a case of absinthe.
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Hanging around her you'd need it.

And Datadyne, our friendly local Krautophile, I have a feeling that if that Metro station picture were a picture of a Jungendstil Otto Wagner train pavillion in Vienna, you'd be cool with it!!!
 
tobyjug said:
Hanging around her you'd need it.

And Datadyne, our friendly local Krautophile, I have a feeling that if that Metro station picture were a picture of a Jungendstil Otto Wagner train pavillion in Vienna, you'd be cool with it!!!
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Oh don't get me wrong, I like the Paris Metro headhouses and that kind of Art Nouveau. The word "ridiculous" wasn't the best word choice. It was more used to be relative to what is the norm for headhouse design. I guess "unique" is a better word. It's truly sad that only 2 still exist.

And I have sooooo many pictures of all of Wagner's work from Vienna.
 
Just teasing. I enjoy your "postcards" from Mitteleuropa!
 
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