Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/06/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]As a resident of B'ham in the late70's through the 80's and as an occasional visitor now (4-5 x/year - my inlaws live there) I can say that NONE of that looks like downtown B'ham. The building on another of their pages (http://www.leercorp.com/leertower.htm) used to house a defunct S&L and has had more false stories about its future than a 4th Ave N hooker could make up since. Beware. Allen >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 > > > >_______________________________________________ >Leica Users Group. >See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information