Does it just say you can't hang posters on the walls? Because, if I were in that situation, I'd set up some kind of easels or something to display posters, just for spite.
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quote:Originally posted by Peregrinus: I think I still have my Prince Caspian calendar from 1983 or so... Have all of the SotL calendars, too. Remember, not counting leap years, every seven years the calendars cycle. So I can use the '01 calendar again in '09 (I believe).
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Prince Caspian calendar!?! Who is the artwork by? Have you got any scans? Unless it's the Pauline Baynes artwork.
I don't even USE the calendars - they are more like 12-14 pages glossy books. Geek porn, I oogle at the beautiful pictures in a large format.
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It's a student letting, so there are some funny clauses. On the otherhand, it's quite cheep for a student house, and maintainence free.
We just used the frames in the living room and kitchen, turned the landlords print saround and put our own stuff in. But we aren't supposed to put stuff on the walls (probably because it's only cheap paint), and there ain't no frames in the other rooms.
As for the other stuff, apparantly most student lets here have traffic cone clauses, pets - well thats not very unusual, candles are (alegedly) a fire hazzard and foot spas could electrocute you. Or something, I can't be bothered to dig out the copy.
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If I were a landlord, I sure as hell wouldn't rent to students without a lot of prohibitions spelled out. Back in my student days, we hung a coach and Xmas tree rom our ceiling and built a water-filled sensory deprivation tank in our living room (this was about when "Altered States" came out). Also used various illegal substances.
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Some places here forbid having a trafficlight in your apartment (as they're common souvineers from whatever hurricane just rolled through).
I think it was South Miami (a city all it's own, believe it or not) that started that.
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Well I said for them to be made posters because it be really weird if you hung them up like they were famous works of art. I dunno I think this book going to be such a hot idea. I remeber one book called Starship Spotter that people said was crap and a Ships of the Line artbook reminds me of this idea.
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The Discovered Country. The More-Travelled Road. Once More, With Ennui.
And Starship Spotter WAS crap. The descriptions were amateurish, and the ships being portrayed were portrayed as wireframes. Simple silhouettes a la WWII would have been better -- and easier on the eyes. That was just a mess...
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I wasn't a great fan of the Starship Spotter text, The guy they got to write the text is decidedly TOS-era biased, which shows in the final product. Doesn't really help that the book is biased to the TNG-era.
Also, SS was a sort of stopgap project while Unseen Frontier was being worked on. At least they managed to ge that out before UF got the plug pulled.
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