In case anyone was wondering how much NYC actually resembles Gotham City: Gargoyles
My personal favorite:
And a picture I shot on 9/20/01 at 90 West Street:
In case anyone was wondering how much NYC actually resembles Gotham City: Gargoyles
My personal favorite:
And a picture I shot on 9/20/01 at 90 West Street:
Are they really gargoyles if they do not function as water-spouts?
Yours in pedantry.
Purely decorative = gargoyle.
Waterspout through the mouth = gargle.
Is H.D.B. your real name?
Asking in the interests of scholarship.
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Real enough that I stopped using it at S,N! during a time when one of the regular trolls went through a phase of nym-stealing, and things were being said that I didn’t want to be associated with.
The theory with the Teutonic title is that if people complained that a given comment was mindnumbingly pedantic and humourless, I can respond WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU EXPECT???!
There are some rather silly chicken-headed and goat-headed gargoyles / waterspouts at Cardiff Castle. Memo to self: Post some photographs some time.
IIRC John Crowley pays tribute to the gothic aspect of NY architecture in “Little, Big”.
it is my pedantic understanding that if they have a drain spout routed through them, they are gargoyles. If they do not, they are grotesques.
This may be true, but it reeks of effort.
If only there was an architect we could ask.
You mean…ask an architect a factual question in order to get an understandable answer?
When I’m done laughing, if anyone needs me, I’ll be in my bunk.
Ned, do you… uh… have your own reserved table at Medieval Times?
AFAF
If I knew what Medieval Times was, I might.
Gargoyle at Cardiff Castle.
You mean…ask an architect a factual question in order to get an understandable answer?
I can’t help it that New Yawk architects suck.
Only if you’re very friendly.
if they have a drain spout routed through them, they are gargoyles
Worst job I ever had. The little fuckers do not like it