RE: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] Library sculpture

["Ross, Matt" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

> > Why does everybody hate the Phillistines?  I'm sure they 
> had their share of
> > art, or what passed for art at the time.
> 
> Well, the winners write the histories, and they said the 
> Phillistines had no class. :-)  Or, more likely, they had art that 
> other people thought wasn't very good-looking.  Or something...

That must be it, the Phillistines were the first to invent abstract art :-)

> Actually, I think he really was annoyed because they spent so much 
> money on *sculpture*, which he thought could be gotten more cheaply.
> And which was kind of high risk, of course.

True, you could go to any scrapyard and pick up something comparable that
took a lot less work.  Rather than spend my 2 cents on this, I'll give one
of my favorite quotes:

"Abstract art: A product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the
utterly bewildered."
-Al Capp

> > Michael and a blowtorch, are you sure you're comfortable with
> > that mental image??
> 
> As long as they have some kind of "Michael is in the county" 
> notification system working. :-)

I think you mean country.
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