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Post by Padre Romero on Apr 7, 2007 19:07:40 GMT -5
From the Quarterly Library:
The building has been decorated with a Greek tapestry, a historical tapestry, a stuffed crocodile, a glass table and a glass globe.
Now, I have two major beefs with this: first off, "A Greek Tapestry" would almost certainly be "A historical tapestry"...secondly, the only "greek tapestries" are eensy weensy fragments of sand-ridden cloth...it doesn't keep very well.
My three explainations:
The "Greek" tapestry is from modern day greece
The "Greek" tapestry is a forgery
The Quarterly Library has been retrofitted with a time machine.
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Post by Artaxerxes/SweetIrony on Apr 8, 2007 1:34:06 GMT -5
Ok first off, PR... it's Quartly!! Please stop calling it Quarterly!! Second... you have some good points there. But shush... no one's supposed to know about our time machine.  |
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Post by Padre Romero on Apr 8, 2007 9:32:49 GMT -5
oooops
on both counts...
Maybe it's a "Geek" Tapestry
EDIT: I've posted my nitpicking on the wiki...
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Post by Specialist290 on Apr 8, 2007 13:14:12 GMT -5
Fifth possibility: It could be a cleverly-disguised piece of canvas from the gasbag of a deconstructed horse-drawn zeppelin.
That's just my theory, though.
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Post by Lachryma on Apr 8, 2007 23:24:42 GMT -5
Perhaps, just maybe, it's a 'reproduction' and not a 'forgery'?
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Post by asshole doctor™ on Apr 9, 2007 5:10:35 GMT -5
but that would make us tacky. i don't think I could handle that right now.
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Post by masterhammond2 on Apr 10, 2007 21:38:01 GMT -5
It could be Sex Panther's corpse.
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Post by Your Mommy Issues on Apr 11, 2007 10:31:18 GMT -5
Maybe it's not from Greece, but a frat house?
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Post by jarper on Apr 11, 2007 19:58:30 GMT -5
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sampul_tapestryThe tapestry was, curiously, fashioned into a pair of trousers, indicating that it may have been used as a decorative trophy.Now I'm visualising a t-shirt to go with the trousers - an embroidered "THIS IS SPARTA" with an arrow pointing groinward. EDIT: Have updated character description accordingly.
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Post by Padre Romero on Apr 11, 2007 23:20:40 GMT -5
I haven't heard of this.
At any rate, my art history book and teacher are adamant that there aren't any greek tapestries of appreciable size anywhere,
so they are either
A) Wrong
or
B) this isn't very big...
I can't find a picture that shows it on any appreciable scale.
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Post by DT on Apr 15, 2007 10:00:22 GMT -5
I haven't heard of this. At any rate, my art history book and teacher are adamant that there aren't any greek tapestries of appreciable size anywhere, so they are either A) Wrong or B) this isn't very big... I can't find a picture that shows it on any appreciable scale. Well, it was made into a pair of pants, so it must be, when not pantified, twice the size of a pair of trousers. Unless its just a minature representation of a pair of trousers? |
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Post by Padre Romero on Apr 15, 2007 10:22:53 GMT -5
or if it, along with other material, was made into pants
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Post by Artaxerxes/SweetIrony on Apr 15, 2007 12:53:24 GMT -5
Or if only scraps remain, but enough to tell that it used to be a pair of trousers.
Jarper..... awesome profile. XD
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Post by Syd 3.0 on May 26, 2007 22:59:11 GMT -5
Maybe Malton is located in an alternate universe where greek tapestries are extremely fancy and durable.
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Post by winka on Aug 11, 2008 15:32:11 GMT -5
Perhaps the problem might be in assuming the term comes from a country of origin rather than a description of the art .The Mortlake ,Goeblins and other factories executed many works with the subject matter of many of the Greek myths being used as designs for tapestries.
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