Posted on 09/18/2005 10:16:59 PM PDT by Stoat
"extending furry stoat paw for a polite handshake"
I did feel a little "clawed" by your comment so I really appreciate the apology and it is well received.
By the way, what is a "stoat?"
Regardless of the relative merits of their music, I still think that I would be aghast at the notion of taking a house apart, brick by brick, storing it, and then reassembling it at another location merely because of the fame of the person who once lived there. If the house was particularly beautiful and grand or represented an important architectural style then that might sway my opinion, but in looking at the Starr house, I see nothing remarkable about it whatsoever.
From his profile it appears to be a furry albino chipmunk with a neck mutation.
After this, I'm going to have "Back Off Boogaloo" stuck in my head for the rest of the night...
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Stoat - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Stoat (Mustela erminea) is a small mammal of the family Mustelidae. In North America it is also referred to as the Short-tailed Weasel. When in its white winter coat, it is also called an Ermine
It is an opportunistic carnivore, and grows up to 30 cm long. It eats rabbits; rodents such as the mouse, vole and rat; other small mammals; birds and their eggs and young; and sometimes fish, reptiles, amphibians, and invertebrates. It is a very skillful tree climber and can descend a trunk headfirst, like a squirrel. The stoat is capable of killing animals much larger than itself
It's just weird, any way you look at it. If you appreciate the music, fine, but this hoarding of material --- even to taking apart a house brick by brick --- is borderline fetish. If I were Ringo I'd be creeped by people rummaging through my house and treating it like an artifact dug out of an Egyptian tomb just because I used to live there.
That was terribly unkind.
"sniffle"
My sincere apologies. I know just how you feel....I felt the same way after I heard "The Ketchup Song" the first time. Gadz!
Agreed. I wonder if anyone consulted him on this issue? Too bad the usually-thorough Telegraph omits such an essential point.
Even the mutants need love and I'm glad you give it. Stoats are one of those things that make the world interesting and special. If I ever see a stoat I shall shake its hairy paw in your honor and pray it doesn't eat me. We'll have an understanding, right?
Actually, Stephen Foster's home has been preserved, and is still a tourist attraction. It was moved to Greenfield Village at the Henry Ford museum in Dearborn, MI. I've been there, and it's pretty cool.
I think they should rebuild the house next to Pete Best's childhood home....That would drive him whacko all over again....ohhhh the pain...dam you brian epstein!
Best was a better drummer but just didn't mix well with the other three.
Well I'll be damned. The world never changes. Marilyn Manson, you're next.
Thank you for your kind words. I feel much better now :-)
Thanks! It's cute! I need one of those in my attic -- I have some little vermin up there!
Marilyn Manson's former Canton residence (1420 N.E. 35th St., Canton). Hugh and Barbara Warner raised their only son Brian in this nondescript brick bungalow until they moved to southern Florida in the late '80s.
Wow! What an amazing coincidence! Thanks for the information.
It's a nice-looking house, worthy of keeping (unlike Starr's, in my view)
Also, it's a whole lot easier to move a wood-frame house like that than a brick one. You just jack it up, put it on a huge flatbed trailer ("lorry", for our dear British Friends) and off you go. None of this business of painstakingly disassembling it brick by brick, numbering each brick, entering the number into the 3-D CAD database, carefully trucking it to a huge warehouse, carefully unloading and stacking the bricks so that none are chipped or broken.....and then carefully reversing the entire process when you decide where you want to build it....a HUGE difference.
If the Foster house had been a completely ordinary-looking brick box as the Starr home apparently is, would you want to pay to move it? I'm not so sure that I would, considering the nonexistent architectural value and the incredible amount of trouble required to disassemble and then faithfully restore it as they intend to do with the Starr home.
What do you think?
You're quite welcome :-)
If they're Marxist vermin I'll do the job for free :-)
"furry wink"
I believe they are.
"loading shells into shotgun"
"kerchunk!"
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