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AP:

A French judicial police official said investigators think an electrical short-circuit most likely caused Notre Dame Cathedral fire.

The official, who spoke anonymously about the ongoing investigation, said investigators still don't have the green light to work in the cathedral and search in the rubble for safety reasons.

He told The Associated Press the monument is still being consolidated with wooden planks to support some fragilize parts of the walls.

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34 minutes ago, Onboard 2.0 said:

The internet will be the end to humanity as we know it.

/csb time... It was '98 or so and I was living in Ft Worth. I was talking to the chick who lived next door and she said she wanted a computer, she just had to have one. I took her to Best Buy (might have had some coupons) and got her a desktop, took it to her house and got her all set up on AOL. The very next day as I'm coming home from work she meets me in the street grinning from ear to ear "I had sex last night! On the internet!"

Yeah, that ship has sailed.

Not sure how any of this is thread topic related.

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2 minutes ago, El Diablo said:

/csb time... It was '98 or so and I was living in Ft Worth. I was talking to the chick who lived next door and she said she wanted a computer, she just had to have one. I took her to Best Buy (might have had some coupons) and got her a desktop, took it to her house and got her all set up on AOL. The very next day as I'm coming home from work she meets me in the street grinning from ear to ear "I had sex last night! On the internet!"

Yeah, that ship has sailed.

Not sure how any of this is thread topic related.

Still a good story. So when are you uploaded the pictures? 

Posted
3 minutes ago, El Diablo said:

/csb time... It was '98 or so and I was living in Ft Worth. I was talking to the chick who lived next door and she said she wanted a computer, she just had to have one. I took her to Best Buy (might have had some coupons) and got her a desktop, took it to her house and got her all set up on AOL. The very next day as I'm coming home from work she meets me in the street grinning from ear to ear "I had sex last night! On the internet!"

Yeah, that ship has sailed.

Not sure how any of this is thread topic related.

Well without pics it's a hell of a lot more boring. That's for damn sure....

Posted
9 minutes ago, El Diablo said:

/csb time... It was '98 or so and I was living in Ft Worth. I was talking to the chick who lived next door and she said she wanted a computer, she just had to have one. I took her to Best Buy (might have had some coupons) and got her a desktop, took it to her house and got her all set up on AOL. The very next day as I'm coming home from work she meets me in the street grinning from ear to ear "I had sex last night! On the internet!"

Yeah, that ship has sailed.

Not sure how any of this is thread topic related.

You needed more affirmation you were in the friend zone??? 

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I actually did have a few pics of her, taken on a Mavica that used floppy discs for storage. No idea now. And just to keep it topic related, she was no Quasimodo. Cute Jersey gal in her mid 30's, worked at Tandy Corp.

Posted
1 minute ago, Trey3216 said:

You needed more affirmation you were in the friend zone??? 

I was a single parent, no way in hell I was gonna be banging the cray next door. Nope. Would have probably under different circumstances.

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17 hours ago, phdhorn said:

Inevitable... First Official "I See Jeeezusssss In The Fire!!!11!" pic.  Lady claims to see Our Lord and Savior hanging around the conflagration, twit-ters blowz up "Yes YES I SEE HIM!!!"  The Second Person of the Triune God in the red circle:

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Maybe, but he seems like His head is 21 sizes too small for that NBA Shawn Bradley corpus.

I see Freddie Mercury in the wood.

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Posted
17 hours ago, Trey3216 said:

Eva Green looks best in ‘Kingdom of Heaven’, which is historically inaccurate but a movie I enjoy.    

 

Fight me 

maybe...but her scenes in 300 Rise of an Empire almost caused me to put blisters on my dick.

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On 4/17/2019 at 10:17 AM, Onboard 2.0 said:

In most residential historical districts they discourage and sometime flat out reject slavishly carried out additions and renovations to older homes that make it impossible to tell old from new

Why?

Posted
17 hours ago, El Diablo said:

I actually did have a few pics of her, taken on a Mavica that used floppy discs for storage. No idea now. And just to keep it topic related, she was no Quasimodo. Cute Jersey gal in her mid 30's, worked at Tandy Corp.

Into leather, was she?

Posted
21 hours ago, bigup2dahorns said:

AP:

A French judicial police official said investigators think an electrical short-circuit most likely caused Notre Dame Cathedral fire.

 

 

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Posted
1 hour ago, JimmyHoffa said:

 

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I've done a fair number of fire inspections at businesses. You probably wouldn't believe how much shit like this there is out there.

Posted
21 minutes ago, wood said:

I've done a fair number of fire inspections at businesses. You probably wouldn't believe how much shit like this there is out there.

 

I can only imagine.

Posted
7 hours ago, Onboard 2.0 said:

So you can tell what was original, and what has been added/altered.The same technique is used with historical artifacts exhibited/curated.  

I'm not a historic preservationist but I do work with many professionals, and this is the correct take. There is a belief among them that old buildings are like a menagerie of museum collectibles that can't be replicated. "Authenticity" and "character" are the name of the game and determining which time in the past is an accurate reflection of its historic fabric should be considered for restoration will be the puzzle for Notre Dame de Paris.

Should every element of the previous structure be "slavishly" restored using the same materials and techniques that had been previously used - even on the spire which was a fanciful invention of the 1800s? Should they take it back to what they think is the original incarnation with a more modest one that blew over due to neglect in previous centuries? Or should they create an entirely new one that perhaps provides a generous nod to the past?

I'm really eager to see what comes as a result of these difficult decisions.

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11 minutes ago, bolverk said:

I'm not a historic preservationist but I do work with many professionals, and this is the correct take. There is a belief among them that old buildings are like a menagerie of museum collectibles that can't be replicated. "Authenticity" and "character" are the name of the game and determining which time in the past is an accurate reflection of its historic fabric should be considered for restoration will be the puzzle for Notre Dame de Paris.

Should every element of the previous structure be "slavishly" restored using the same materials and techniques that had been previously used - even on the spire which was a fanciful invention of the 1800s? Should they take it back to what they think is the original incarnation with a more modest one that blew over due to neglect in previous centuries? Or should they create an entirely new one that perhaps provides a generous nod to the past?

I'm really eager to see what comes as a result of these difficult decisions.

Yep, I think modern technology, and materials should be reflected somehow.  Making it clear that this is new, and this is old is what should be happening. It maintains historical place, and context of the building and it's many revisions over the centuries. 

It's not a time capsule, but a very much used living and breathing building that's been altered since its original structure was erected over a pagan temple.  Making changes, that do not re photo copy what was pre fire to are fine, and very appropriate in my opinion.

I've had an argument/discussion on this very topic with preservation agencies, I've submitted projects for tax abatement consideration.

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Posted
24 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

I'm tellin' ya, a spire of a lit Gauloises is the frenchiest french thing I can imagine, they pretty much hafta do it....

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I'm going to have to disagree. There's a famed nude photo of French model Laetitia Casta, which I'd love to post but can't here, with her arms raised that I think would be perfect for topping the new spire. You're free to google the search terms "Laetitia Casta nude" on your own to see what I'm referring to.

Posted
1 minute ago, Armybrat said:

On a somewhat related note about originality, only 10-15% of the wood in the USS Constitution is original from the 1797 construction.

Yep, and Colonial Williamsburg, Va. is pretty much all a re creation.

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Fifty+ years ago when my dad was visiting LaBahia at Goliad, he asked a park ranger where was Zaragoza’s house. Ranger said “We haven’t built it yet”.

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Posted
7 minutes ago, bolverk said:

I'm going to have to disagree. There's a famed nude photo of French model Laetitia Casta, which I'd love to post but can't here, with her arms raised that I think would be perfect for topping the new spire. You're free to google the search terms "Laetitia Casta nude" on your own to see what I'm referring to.

Well huh. She seems to have no problem taking her clothes off. I like the cut of her jibs.

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3 minutes ago, El Diablo said:

Well huh. She seems to have no problem taking her clothes off. I like the cut of her jibs.

Imagine the photo with her arms and right leg raised at the top of the spire. She'd make for a wonderous Lady Liberty. 

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Ain't nothing more French than that.

Posted
1 hour ago, Armybrat said:

On a somewhat related note about originality, only 10-15% of the wood in the USS Constitution is original from the 1797 construction.

Did you write your name on the planks you installed? 

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Posted
1 hour ago, Armybrat said:

Fifty+ years ago when my dad grandson was visiting LaBahia at Goliad, he asked a park ranger where was Zaragoza’s house. Ranger said “We haven’t built it yet”.

fify

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On 4/18/2019 at 11:58 AM, bigup2dahorns said:

He told The Associated Press the monument is still being consolidated with wooden planks to support some fragilize parts of the walls.

The walls were brought in from Italy?
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I heard one French “official” state that the fire may have been a result of a “computer glitch”. More speculation no doubt, but the thought of an ancient building that has endured so much succumbing to high tech is a trip.

Posted
3 hours ago, Onboard 2.0 said:

Yep, and Colonial Williamsburg, Va. is pretty much all a re creation.

Pssh. Williamsburg is Johnny come lately anyway. 1607 or gtfo.

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Posted (edited)
32 minutes ago, Texas_Rocks said:

I heard one French “official” state that the fire may have been a result of a “computer glitch”. More speculation no doubt, but the thought of an ancient building that has endured so much succumbing to high tech is a trip.

Irony = the fire alarm system shorted out and started the fire.

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Posted
3 hours ago, bolverk said:

Imagine the photo with her arms and right leg raised at the top of the spire. She'd make for a wonderous Lady Liberty. 

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Ain't nothing more French than that.

A guillotine, but the Catholics might be mad about that.

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The broad worked at Tandy, she probably knew more about computers than El Diablo did. She was basically begging for it, but once out hero bailed, she had to get serviced by this guy instead.

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On 4/16/2019 at 5:16 PM, thrillhammer said:

but yet you don't think it should be rebuilt?

By the way, how much $$$ has the Catholic Church donated to this this renovation? I know they have millions of dollars in their pockets.

I haven't looked up the number, but I guess it isn't even close to what others have invested.

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