Interestingly, Mary Elizabeth Jane Colter is described in Gzer's link as "a chain-smoking perfectionist"
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- but it is Wikipedia
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Well-- no....Are you kidding?but methinks they overreacted in the penalty
That would have been reasonable, but:No jail time, no fines; just a year to stay out of the National Parks and cool off. My heart bleeds for them.
- which I presume is the cost of bringing Mary Elizabeth Jane Colter back from the hereafter. Actually if that's the case it does seem cheap.They were also ordered to pay $3,035 to repair the watchtower sign.
A fair pointI've heard your sound clips. Isn't there an 'r' missing in the third word of your sign?
Oops. I missed that part about the fine, although I remember it now. Still, for an art restorer, it's still probably a bargain....That would have been reasonable, but:No jail time, no fines; just a year to stay out of the National Parks and cool off. My heart bleeds for them.- which I presume is the cost of bringing Mary Elizabeth Jane Colter back from the hereafter. Actually if that's the case it does seem cheap.They were also ordered to pay $3,035 to repair the watchtower sign.
A fair pointI've heard your sound clips. Isn't there an 'r' missing in the third word of your sign?But I can put one in for less than $3035
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Hey, for that sum I'll make ten signs that look just like the one in the story with no errors, including shipping
When they say $3035 to replace the sign, is that with the same errors?
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I was just thinking that would be the best case scenario - a sign saying the sign has known errors. Fat chance they'd do it.If the sign itself is an artifact, there should be a sign referring to the sign- which could then explain the 'art' of textual misconduct.
It's a short read but it fills in some details. I think the best part might be the comments. There are 17 pages of them, but I've only read the first and last pages. Some are your typical not-worth-the-electrons-they're-written-with kind you see, but my favorite one was on the first page:... they used a white-out product and a permanent marker to deface a sign painted more than 60 years ago by artist Mary Colter. The sign, a National Historic Landmark, was considered unique and irreplaceable, according to Sandy Raynor, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Attorney's Office in Phoenix.
Stargzer, born and raise South of Mason and Dixon's Line, is impolite enough to tell them where they can put their correction pencils.Looks like they made an emense mistake.......
On that line, I just received an email from audio software guru brand Roxio which reads "Share you family's favorite summer stories..." Needless to say, they have sent that out to their entire email list!Looks like they made an emense mistake.......
I envision a tableaux of signage explaining the signage...I was just thinking that would be the best case scenario - a sign saying the sign has known errors. Fat chance they'd do it.If the sign itself is an artifact, there should be a sign referring to the sign- which could then explain the 'art' of textual misconduct.
Are you sure that was from Roxio and not some Spammer in Romania?On that line, I just received an email from audio software guru brand Roxio which reads "Share you family's favorite summer stories..." Needless to say, they have sent that out to their entire email list!Looks like they made an emense mistake.......
In retrospect there must have been something and I'm sure our pro-verbial vigilantes were misled by the sign reading:I envision a tableaux of signage explaining the signage...I was just thinking that would be the best case scenario - a sign saying the sign has known errors. Fat chance they'd do it.If the sign itself is an artifact, there should be a sign referring to the sign- which could then explain the 'art' of textual misconduct.
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