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I am referencing that story and itā€™s Wikipedia page says:

ā€œā€˜ā€”And He Built a Crooked Houseā€”ā€™ā€[a] is a science fiction short story by American writer Robert A. Heinlein, first published in Astounding Science Fiction in February 1941.[1] It was reprinted in the anthology Fantasia Mathematica (Clifton Fadiman, ed.) in 1958, and in the Heinlein collections The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag in 1959 and The Best of Robert Heinlein in 1973. The story is about a mathematically inclined architect named Quintus Teal who has what he thinks is a brilliant idea to save on real estate costs by building a house shaped like the unfolded net of a tesseract. The title is paraphrased from the nursery rhyme ā€œThere Was a Crooked Manā€.

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Terrible photos listed by estate agents/realtors that are so bad theyā€™re funny.

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Posts in this community must be of property (inside or out) listed for sale which contains a terrible element. ā€œTerribleā€ can refer to:

  • the photo itself (finger over the lens, too far away, people in the shot, bad Photoshop, etc.)

  • the property (weird layout, questionable plumbing, unsound structure, etc.)

  • the interior (carpeted bathrooms, awful taste interiors, weird mannequins/taxidermies/art, inflatable pools indoors, etc.)

  • the actual listing itself including unusual descriptions and unrealistic pricing. However, this isnā€™t a community to discuss the housing market in general. This is a comedic community - letā€™s keep it light.

  • Photos can be sourced from anywhere and be any age, but please check they havenā€™t already been posted.

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