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To: Shermy

Come on folks, this is San Francisco. 20 feet or 12 feet, it is more important that the construction crew felt good about their work. Imposing rigid standard of measurements are counterproductive to producing a modern ego. And isn’t that what counts theses days? /snide


4 posted on 12/27/2007 2:38:14 PM PST by heywoodubuzzoff (:-))
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To: heywoodubuzzoff
Come on folks, this is San Francisco. 20 feet or 12 feet, it is more important that the construction crew felt good about their work. Imposing rigid standard of measurements are counterproductive to producing a modern ego. And isn’t that what counts theses days? /snide

I thought maybe they used New Orleans or Boston contracting standards.

30 posted on 12/27/2007 3:05:26 PM PST by PAR35
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To: heywoodubuzzoff

By saying that the wall was only 12 feet high, they are denigrating the accomplishment of the tiger in jumping over it. They should be ashamed of themselves.


37 posted on 12/27/2007 3:10:39 PM PST by Brilliant
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To: heywoodubuzzoff
Come on folks, this is San Francisco. 20 feet or 12 feet, it is more important that the construction crew felt good about their work. Imposing rigid standard of measurements are counterproductive to producing a modern ego....

Yes, and what harm is it to have the zoo open on Christmas Day, compelling workers to deal with an emergency instead of being with family?..... /sarc

40 posted on 12/27/2007 3:11:34 PM PST by Albion Wilde ("Whatever enables us to go to war, secures our peace." —Thomas Jefferson)
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To: heywoodubuzzoff

*** 20 feet or 12 feet, it is more important that the construction crew felt good about their work. Imposing rigid standard of measurements are counterproductive to producing a modern ego. ***

And the Titanic had just the legal number of boats required.


58 posted on 12/27/2007 3:51:06 PM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar (Only infidel blood can quench Muslim thirst-- Abdul-Jalil Nazeer al-Karouri)
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