TenuredVulture wrote:

Grotewold wrote:Checked out a high-rise apartment at 20th and Market yesterday, showed around by a beautiful girl in a sundress. Well played, mgmt.

Did she have a ring?

mickbayne wrote:anyone else's gmail broken?

TenuredVulture wrote:I would also imagine when you enlisted would be significant as well--nowadays, the standards for new recruits are pretty high. By contrast six or seven years ago, I sat on drug court and watched the judge expunge criminal records at the request of a recruiter. (To be fair, these guys weren't guilty of anything all that serious, but they had to get the conviction removed before they could enlist.)

TenuredVulture wrote:

Grotewold wrote:Checked out a high-rise apartment at 20th and Market yesterday, showed around by a beautiful girl in a sundress. Well played, mgmt.

Did she have a ring?

The Dude wrote:first geocaching venture was a success

RichmondPhilsFan wrote:Awesome!

But that can't possibly be real, right? There would've been a technical against the first team for having coaches and additional players on the court, so the winning team would've been shooting FTs anyway.

RichmondPhilsFan wrote:Awesome!

But that can't possibly be real, right? There would've been a technical against the first team for having coaches and additional players on the court, so the winning team would've been shooting FTs anyway.

Eddie Jordan wrote:do the dudes in Mayfair give themselves haircuts? I've never seen so many white people unsuccessfully try to pull off the high fade.

MADRID — A case of suspected vandalism in a church in a northeastern village in Spain has turned out to be probably the worst art restoration project of all time.

An elderly woman stepped forward this week to claim responsibility for disfiguring a century-old “ecce homo” fresco of Jesus crowned with thorns, in Santuario de la Misericordia, a Roman Catholic church in Borja, near the city of Zaragoza.

Ecce homo, or behold the man, refers to an artistic motif that depicts Jesus, usually bound and with a crown of thorns, right before his crucifixion.

The woman, Cecilia Giménez, who is in her 80s, said on Spanish national television that she had tried to restore the fresco, which she called her favorite local representation of Jesus, because she was upset that parts of it had flaked off due to moisture on the church’s walls.

The authorities in Borja said they had suspected vandalism at first, but then determined that the shocking alterations had been made by an elderly parishioner. The authorities said she had acted on her own.

But Ms. Giménez later defended herself, saying she could not understand the uproar because she had worked in broad daylight and had tried to salvage the fresco with the approval of the local clergy. “The priest knew it,” she told Spanish television. “I’ve never tried to do anything hidden.”

Ms. Giménez said she had worked on the fresco using a 10-year-old picture of it, but she eventually left Jesus with a half-beard and, some say, a monkeylike appearance. The fresco’s botched restoration came to light this month when descendants of the 19th-century artist, Elías Garcia Martínez, proposed making a donation toward its upkeep.

The Borja authorities said they were now considering taking legal action against Ms. Giménez, although they insisted that their priority was to try to return the work to its original state, under the guidance of art historians.