The world's two oldest wooden structures are.....in London and the other is in Japan. You're the expert, tell us what the buildings are...
What??
Did I say you could ask me questions?
Did I say anybody could ask me questions?
It is purely accident if I know any answers. An answer. I think it's the "you're the expert" part that tips me off, that you're asking me a question. A smarty-pants type question.
I don't specialize in smarty-pants questions.
OR smarty pants answers.
You might as well say, "If you're so smart....."
Or, "Hey. Mr Smarty Pants,......"
People usually only ask those questions when they know the answer.
Now, are you that kind? JFred? Well, I don't think so; I don't think you know the answer.
Just kidding!
I know a lot about this, because I discovered that asking questions is really fun. Questions I don't know the answer to. What a conversation starter. Briquet. Briquet, actually, because the conversation usually starts before then. Just before. I go fast. Lotsa lighter fluid, and straight to the briquettes.
The good-questions ones. Dash and I are both really good at that. We're like Huntley and Brink. A team. Teem. We can get to the brink of anything. Fast.
We plunked to look at a Blue Heron, on the Pudding River yesterday. A 78 year old farmer stopped (right in the road) to talk with us. We started out of the question gate on the turtle, but by golly.......
[Dash says: "Reminds me of CSNY. 'This song starts out kind of slow, and then sort of fizzles out altogether.'"]
No really. That guy loved us.
We didn't say, "How many acre-feet in a pound?"
Girls love us too. I think.
I'm sure of it.
Oh yah.
Anyway.
The only thing that old and wooden I know of in England is the Queen. (English architecture before the last 12 decades hasn't interested me much.) (With exceptions.)
In Japan, I can't remember the name of the place. Nara, is it, I think. I could draw the bldgs. I know what it looks like. 800 AD is the number that sticks in my head. 754?
It's a group of buildings, with the traditional "Bhuddist Tower", and another, interesting building called variously the treasury, a storage building, and a bunch of stuff because it doesn't really fit in with any standard-use buildings. It's a beauty.
I studied that one.
I could go to my books and remember the rest, but I'm going to the kitchen.
BTW, I think you ask questions you bet I know the answer to.
The Byodo-in is another OLD wooden building.
Protected wood is as invincible as uhm something almost invincible.
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