From: michael.trew@att.net   
      
   On 8/30/2021 6:37 AM, Questor wrote:   
   > I have fairly simple desires.  For example, I'd like to live for one full   
   year,   
   > -- all four seasons -- at Fallingwater.   
      
   I've gone to tour it at least once.  It is a beautiful house, and IIRC,   
   was the first residential abode to make use of tube fluorescent   
   lighting.  I saw Frank Lloyd Wright on What's My Line (youtube), a mid   
   century appearance, and he was 90+ years old.  Very interesting man.   
      
   That being said, you wouldn't want to own and maintain it.  The way the   
   house was built over the waterfall, it has mold issues, and the concrete   
   and structure has been damaged over the years.  I was told that it's   
   quite costly to keep the structure safe and intact.   
      
   The Kaufman family (Pittsburgh PA department store) were the original   
   owners who had Mr. Wright build the house.  I believe it was their   
   vacation home.  They wanted it near the waterfall, and IIRC, they   
   weren't entirely happy that it was built *over* the waterfall.  The   
   house was somewhat damp inside, and had a lot of spiders.   
      
   > We may have covered this before, but it bears repeating:  if I order a pizza   
   > that is one-half pepperoni and mushroom, and one-half sausage and onion,   
   > then that counts as only two items, not four.  Similarly, charging any extra   
   fee   
   > to split a pizza in such a manner is simply opportunistic money-grubbing and   
   is   
   > to be excoriated.   
      
   I've never tried to order such a pizza, but I do agree, that is how it   
   should be.  I don't order many toppings if I do get a pizza.  I usually   
   make them myself from scratch.   
      
   > In the television program "The Green Hornet," his car, the Black Beauty, is   
   > stored upside down under the garage floor.  I wonder what problems a real car   
   > might develop if it was stored upside down.   
      
   Lots of issues there.  The fuel would run out of the carburetor, for   
   one, and naturally aspirated engines would have trouble pulling anything   
   into it upside down.  Even with modern fuel injected cars, I could   
   imagine that fuel leaking out, oil leaking out and not staying in the   
   pan, and several other fluid issues, among other things, would prevail.   
     Probably the worst of which being the oil leaking out, and the engine   
   not having having oil in the pan to pump through the engine.   
      
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