[geeks] OT: bang, bang, bang...

[Phil Stracchino]

On Fri, Dec 19, 2003 at 08:09:47PM -0500, Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote:
> They paint a lot of the cannons with a heavy, light green colored paint.
> I never have figured that out.  From what I have seen of old paintings,
> they were not pained green back in the day.

Oh yeah, seen that too.  We stripped almost a half-inch of accumulated
paint off Goliath.


> I also wish they would specifically mark replicas.  I guess that ruins
> the illusion for some people, but I would like to know which are real
> and which are not.

It doesn't have to be marked *conspicuously*, after all ...

> There are *tons* of deer on the battlefield there.  All that venison,
> and you can't have it.  The furry bastards know it too.

Heh.  The vultures that roost in the trees overlooking the Fresno
battlefield add an interesting tough of color.  ;)


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