RE: [UC] Rethinking Outdoor Security Lighting

[S. Sharrieff Ali]

Given our history here with safety issues, I don’t think it is a joking matter, it could save someone’s life..maybe even yours Al.   S. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 10, 2004 5:47 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [UC] Rethinking Outdoor Security Lighting   In a message dated 9/10/2004 5:43:58 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: turn-of-the-century pole style lights Gas lamps would be even better. And we could either give the UCD Yellowjackets the job of lighting them in the evening and extinguishing them in the morning. Or, preferably, we could hire new people. Either way, we could teach them to sing "The Old Lamp Lighter" as they went busily on their way in what every day is becoming more of a historic simulacrum of the hoop-and-bustle era city all communitarily-correct citizens cherish so dearly.   Always at your service and ready for a dialog, Al Krigman ============================================================== For those whose own historical heritages don't go back that far and who therefore haven't a clue as to what I mean by all of this...   The Old Lamp Lighter (by Charles Tobias & Nat Simon -- 1946, more than 50 years old, and therefore eligible to be historically homologated in our fair city, so don't try changing it [Ross, this means you] without the permission of the PHC -- The Philadelphia Harmony Commission)     He made the night a little brighter   where ever he would go   the old lamp-lighter of long, long ago   His snowy hair was so much whiter   beneath the candle glow   the old lamp-lighter of long, long ago   You'd hear the patter of his feet   as he came toddling down the street   his smile would hide a lonely heart you see   If there were sweethearts in the park   he'd pass a lamp and leave it dark   remembering the days that used to be   For he recalls when dreams were new   he loved someone who loved him too   who walks with him alone in memory   He made the night a little brighter   where ever he would go   the old lamp-lighter of long, long ago   Now if you look up in the sky   you'll understand the reason why   the little stars at night are all aglow   He turns them on when night is here   he turns them off when dawn is near   the little man we loved of long ago