Open mouth, insert foot

[hel_ana]

So my fellow technical writer and I were talking about the strategic placement of Forever, Erma by Erma Bombeck, in my step-son's school picture.

She mentioned that the interior designers have of late taken to buying up huge lots of old hardcover books, primarily leatherbound ones, slicing off the spines, and then attaching them like wallpaper to the walls of rich people's houses. So that those people could, you know, get the look of books without actually having to give up any space in their gargantuan houses.

The graphics person came over and joined the discussion, mentioning that it's been going on for at least 10 years. We discussed it for a bit, and I mentioned the terrible irony of the most Philistine-like people to most want to appear like they have culture.

The other tech writer said "Oh, I don't know" and I said (in my wonderfully emphatic way) "If you do that, you're a Philistine. Full stop."

The graphics person put up her hand and said "guilty". And then went back to her cube.

Oops.

Comments

[dsrtao]

I'm afraid you work with Philistines. Sorry.

[the-nita.livejournal.com]

This goes into the "apologize for being rude, not for your opinion" category...

(says she who had to do the same last night...)

[cmpriest.livejournal.com]

oh yes. we got a lot of that when i worked for a big used book store here in town about 6 years ago. people came in all the time wondering where we kept the "pretty" books.


morons.

[ilanajayne.livejournal.com]

I always thought that was a TV thing. No one in their right mind would destroy books for decoration (or so I thought)!

*sigh* the world is a strange place.