[Leica] bullshit detection assistance

[jshul at comcast.net (Jim Shulman)]

Reminds me of a friend who moved to Newark well before the urban
renaissance.

He once greeted me at his well-bolted door with, "Welcome to Newark--a gated
community convenient to New York City."

Jim Shulman
Bryn Mawr, PA


-----Original Message-----
From: lug-bounces+jshul=comcast.net@leica-users.org
[mailto:lug-bounces+jshul=comcast.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of brad
daly
Sent: Saturday, June 18, 2005 6:00 PM
To: Leica Users Group
Subject: [Leica] bullshit detection assistance

friends,

i'm in need of a little help in bullshit detection.  the URL below  
links to the homepage of a condo development company that is about to  
start rehabbing a historical building in downtown birmingham.   i  
applaud downtown redevelopment, but i do not appreciate the amount of  
bullshit in both the text and art on this page:

of the four photographs on the right, only the third one down is a  
photograph of a location in birmingham.  i'd to ask your help in  
identifying the other three.

for the record, misleading statements in the text include the  
description of the future condo building's neighborhood as  
"friendly," when it is actually an abandoned area of urban blight,  
and the claim that the building is located near birmingham's light  
rail nexus, when we have no light rail whatsoever (unless you  
consider amtrak and norfolk-southern "light").

here's the url:

http://www.leercorp.com/n.htm

--
brad daly
brad@bradbrad.com
http://www.bradbrad.com

What Would Bill Hicks Say?

"Let the credulous and the vulgar continue to believe that all mental  
woes can be cured by a daily application of old Greek myths to their  
private parts."
     --Vladimir Nabokov



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