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21. "RE: Wow, I... what?"
In response to message #20
 
   >>Would that be this church?
>
>Why yes it would! (Note, in particular, the "pod" off to the left,
>which we always assumed was some Catholic equivalent of the link tower
>Tron used to communicate with his User. You'd go in there to get your
>disk reprogrammed with the subroutine needed to crash the MCP.)
>
>>I'd never seen the statue before (I've always passed it
>>on Newton St.), but I've always called it "The Beehive"...
>
>Heh, we used to call it "the JesusDome", even though it isn't really a
>dome.
>
>There are a number of really rather wacky postwar Catholic churches in
>that area. There's another one over in Burlington, I think, that
>looks kind of like a bunker or the single-story lobby porch section of
>a late-'50s Holiday Inn, except that on the roof, instead of a
>steeple, there's this fantastical metal... sculpture... thing, like
>some kind of sci-fi intergalactic communications antenna. It's like
>the architect was trying to put a transistor-radio-era spin on the
>whole "communications channel to God" metaphor.

I suspect that the difference in our analogies has to do with our ages when we "named" them. I was a toddler, riding with my dad to preschool at Brandeis. But I totally see what you mean...

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   RE: Wow, I... what? Mercutio Oct-11-13 1
      RE: Wow, I... what? Gryphonadmin Oct-11-13 3
   RE: Wow, I... what? trboturtle2 Oct-11-13 2
      RE: Wow, I... what? Polychrome Oct-11-13 4
      RE: Wow, I... what? Gryphonadmin Oct-12-13 6
          RE: Wow, I... what? Nathan Oct-12-13 11
              RE: Wow, I... what? MoonEyes Oct-12-13 12
                  RE: Wow, I... what? Gryphonadmin Oct-12-13 14
   RE: Wow, I... what? SpottedKitty Oct-12-13 5
   RE: Wow, I... what? eriktown Oct-12-13 7
      RE: Wow, I... what? Gryphonadmin Oct-12-13 8
          RE: Wow, I... what? DaemeonX Oct-12-13 9
              RE: Wow, I... what? Gryphonadmin Oct-12-13 10
          RE: Wow, I... what? Offsides Oct-13-13 19
              RE: Wow, I... what? Gryphonadmin Oct-13-13 20
                 RE: Wow, I... what? Offsides Oct-13-13 21
                  RE: Wow, I... what? Zox Oct-13-13 22
   RE: Wow, I... what? mdg1 Oct-12-13 13
      RE: Wow, I... what? Gryphonadmin Oct-12-13 15
          RE: Wow, I... what? mdg1 Oct-12-13 16
              RE: Wow, I... what? Gryphonadmin Oct-12-13 17
                  RE: Wow, I... what? mdg1 Oct-13-13 18
                  RE: Wow, I... what? Croaker Sep-19-22 29
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          RE: Wow, I... what? Gryphonadmin Dec-10-16 25
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