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Re: FN-FORUM Just for a laugh
date posted 29th August 2000 20:20
thanks andrew
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From: Andrew Wilson
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Sent: Tuesday, August 29, 2000 7:49 PM
Subject: RE: FN-FORUM Just for a laugh
my pleasure!
Andrew
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ANDREW WILSON PRODUCTIONS
South Lanarkshire, Scotland
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Sent: 25 August 2000 12:32
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Subject: FN-FORUM Just for a laugh
IF ARCHITECTS HAD TO WORK LIKE WEB PROGRAMMERS
Dear Mr. Architect:
Please design and build me a house. I am not quite sure of what I need, so
you should use your discretion.
My house should have somewhere between two and forty-five bedrooms. Just
make sure the plans are such
that the bedrooms can be easily added or deleted. When you bring the
blueprints to me, I will make the final
decision of what I want. Also, bring me the cost breakdown for each
configuration so that I can arbitrarily
pick one.
Keep in mind that the house I ultimately choose must cost less than the one
I am currently living in. Make
sure, however, that you correct all the deficiencies that exist in my
current house (the floor of my kitchen
vibrates when I walk across it, and the walls don't have nearly enough
insulation in them).
As you design, also keep in mind that I want to keep yearly maintenance
costs as low as possible. This
should mean the incorporation of extra-cost features like aluminum, vinyl,
or composite siding. (If you
choose not to specify aluminum, be prepared to explain your decision in
detail.)
Please take care that modern design practices and the latest materials are
used in construction of the
house, as I want it to be a showplace for the most up-to-date ideas and
methods. Be alerted, however, that
kitchen should be designed to accommodate, among other things, my 1952
Gibson refrigerator.
To insure that you are building the correct house for our entire family,
make certain that you contact each of
our children, and also our in-laws. My mother-in-law will have very strong
feelings about how the house
should be designed, since she visits us at least once a year. Make sure
that you weigh all of these options
carefully and come to the right decision. I, however, retain the right to
overrule any choices that you make.
Please don't bother me with small details right now. Your job is to develop
the overall plans for the house:
get the big picture. At this time, for example, it is not appropriate to be
choosing the color of the carpet.
However, keep in mind that my wife likes blue.
Also, do not worry at this time about acquiring the resources to build the
house itself. Your first priority is to
develop detailed plans and specifications. Once I approve these plans,
however, I would expect the house to
be under roof within 48 hours.
While you are designing this house specifically for me, keep in mind that
sooner or later I will have to sell it
to someone else. It therefore should have appeal to a wide variety of
potential buyers. Please make sure
before you finalize the plans that there is a consensus of the population
in my area that they like the
features this house has. I advise you to run up and look at my neighbor's
house he constructed last year.
We like it a great deal. It has many features that we would also like in
our new home, particularly the 75-foot
swimming pool. With careful engineering, I believe that you can design this
into our new house without
impacting the final cost.
Please prepare a complete set of blueprints. It is not necessary at this
time to do the real design, since they
will be used only for construction bids. Be advised, however, that you will
be held accountable for any
increase of construction costs as a result of later design changes.
You must be thrilled to be working on as an interesting project as this! To
be able to use the latest
techniques and materials and to be given such freedom in your designs is
something that can't happen very
often. Contact me as soon as possible with your complete ideas and plans.
PS: My wife has just told me that she disagrees with many of the
instructions I've given you in this letter. As
architect, it is your responsibility to resolve these differences. I have
tried in the past and have been unable
to accomplish this. If you can't handle this responsibility, I will have to
find another architect.
PPS: Perhaps what I need is not a house at all, but a travel trailer.
Please advise me as soon as possible if
this is the case.
I thought this hit the nail on the head, especially with the large corporate
I work for!
Nickki
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