 During the conversion, her three massive smokestacks were taken off to be scraped down and repainted, but on the dock, they crumbled. Little was left of the three-quarter-inch steel plate from which the stacks had been formed. About all that remained were more than 30 coats of paint that had been applied over the years. The steel had rusted away. Sometimes outward appearance covers up what's on the inside. We call it hypocrisy, appearing to be something we aren't.