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Lost New York

I just noticed your comments on my talk page regarding changes in NYC, and you mentioned eating at Windows on the World. I never much liked WTC as architecture and in "native New Yorker" fashion I didn't go up in the towers for a decade after they were built (denial that Empire State was no longer the tallest building in NY) but a girl I was dating wanted to see them, so we did that and I have to say that WTC stood on its own. Much different and much more impressive than going up Empire State. I ate sveral times at WoW and maybe 3-4 times at Cellar in the Sky. Though I didn't have any affection for WTC as part of NYC, its loss is like a death. I understand intellectually what happened and that they are gone, but I haven't caught up with it emotionally. It was so massive, so solid, and gone in an hour. I think of being inside it, and can't believe it simply doesn't exist, just like that. -- Cecropia | Talk 13:37, 20 Jun 2004 (UTC)

While they were standing, I would not have hesitated for a moment in characterizing the WTC towers as "ugly monstrosities". I had an architecture teacher who could go on for hours about how Lower Manhattan, once a sterling example of architecture symbolizing with its multiple spires, reflecting the spires of ecclesiastical forms, the aspiration of man towards God, had been ruined by the blocky, flat-topped giants which overpowered the skyscape and moved the fulcrum of Manhattan so far south it seemed it would tip over. I didn't much care for them when they were first constructed (the only bit I liked were the trefoil forms on the lower level, the only part of the buildings constructed to human scale). And I, like you, didn't go in them for a long time: once, to the roof, with visitors from out of town, and once, to WoW, for a celebratory dinner. The view was wonderful, but I found the height disconcerting.
Only after they were gone did I notice how much a part of the fabric of downtown they had become. One expects to see them when walking down Fifth Avenue, and their absence is really a palpable one: you can't look there without reflecting on how hard it is to create, and how easy to destroy, how unlikely it is, and how wonderful, that humans choose, for the most part, to do the former, or how tenuous civilization truly is.
They may have been ugly-ass, but we were used to them. I think the new buildings, sadly, will also take about twenty years to get used to. - Nunh-huh 19:57, 20 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Urinetown

I saw your re-edit. Are you sure about urination being taxed? I saw the show at the H. Miller and on the national tour and I don't recall that as being the modus operandi. IIRC, the way the story worked was that the Urine Good Company owned all the toilets and forced people to pay for use, and non-use of the toilets was punished by the police. Ellsworth 14:00, 23 Jun 2004 (UTC)

I'm going to remove reference to the P tax but expand on gov't's involvement. Thanks for your help. Ellsworth 20:40, 23 Jun 2004 (UTC)


Goth Horror

Yes please

I am complete prat, can you move it fast, spent all evening writing it, spell checking etc. put it on, made cup of coffee came back to tweak and could not beleive such a fundamental error, can you move it very quick. Thanks Giano 21:31, 23 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Thank you very much indeed, is there a way of getting rid of the mis-spelt page? I am going to bed now as I keep seeing more wrong with it! Why do these things never show up before they go live? I keep thinking such a big subject might be already on, but could not find it! Giano 21:43, 23 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Thanks for your help. That's it for tonight. Please change what you like, I'm hard to offend, I just felt there was a lot on the peerage and not much on the rest of us. Regards Giano 22:05, 23 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Much better. Partucularly like the bit about actresses! Regards Giano 06:21, 24 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Kinsky

Having looked him up in ancient stud books and spent half the evening changing his name and links accordingly to Octavian (with a C) yes he was! But at least he now has his own horrible stubby page. I am becoming rapidly sick of the Kinskys. As far as Her Imperial Majesty and Lady Randolph are concerned my Granny had a word for the likes of them, it concerned the docks in Naples! I think it must have been all that riding. RegardsGiano 21:57, 25 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Beans

I'm not sure I want you shooting blue flames at bar-mitzvahs. Although it might help if you could rescue any stray imps... moink 05:59, 27 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Pergamon Museum

Thanks a lot for your polishing of the Pergamon Museum article, it was quite needed. My grammar is perhaps not the best, and I get especially confused when reading several languages at once (it was translated from de, with help from no.). Cheers. [[User:Sverdrup|User:Sverdrup]] 02:47, 1 Jul 2004 (UTC)

I like Museumsinsel, but upon checking, it seems our article on it uses Museum Island, even though I though it used the german name. That means I think I should change it to the english name. [[User:Sverdrup|User:Sverdrup]] 02:52, 1 Jul 2004 (UTC)
It must be Miletus, checking the article confirms it. [[User:Sverdrup|User:Sverdrup]] 02:59, 1 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Heh, I'll stop tinkering now. Go ahead. [[User:Sverdrup|User:Sverdrup]] 03:05, 1 Jul 2004 (UTC)

other languages

Thanks for your note on my talk page about links to other languages in the Jules Bordet article. I didn't quite feel right doing that, so I'm glad you cleared up that subject for me. Thanks also for checking and verifying that their removal was OK. - Eisnel 23:14, 1 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Diabetes

The headline of the section is "diseases that feature amyloid deposits" -- yes, whether or not amyloid deposition causes diabetes is debatable, but I think the community generally agrees that Type II diabetics have the deposits. I've modified the header to include the caveat that the qualification applies to all the conditions, hope that is satisfactory. (I think the only amyloid diseases where the deposits are known to be pathogenic are the systemic ones.

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Good Catch

Good catch re Wik/Lir. You can tell I'm multitasking too much. :) Snowspinner 04:45, Jul 6, 2004 (UTC)

Petticoat Junction

I expanded the petticoat bit a little. Didn't the dog also swim in the water tower? Mike H 17:52, Jul 9, 2004 (UTC)

They even changed the theme song when June Lockhart came. I don't remember that version, though. I have Petticoat Junction DVDs, but it's Wal-Mart $5.99 kind, with the real theme song omitted for copyright purposes. In any case, there are about 14 episodes or so, from 1963 and 1964, I guess. Mike H 00:00, Jul 11, 2004 (UTC)

I really wish they'd rerun that on TV Land. That, and Maude. I was just rewriting The Facts of Life. I loved that show. Mike H 00:18, Jul 11, 2004 (UTC)

Bea Arthur wasn't wasted so much on Maude, but Charlotte Rae was on The Facts of Life. They focused too much story on Lisa Whelchel, who wasn't that great of an actress anyway. Mike H 00:34, Jul 11, 2004 (UTC)
Now, that's an understatement <g> - Nunh-huh 00:35, 11 Jul 2004 (UTC)
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