Closed Week #4 2017-05-29

[DeletedUser110195]

All of you can have a turn, right up until a cherry garden building is up for grabs again and then it's all MINE! >=D

I need the full set after all

 

[DeletedUser108047]

I've got two sets.... want to buy one?

 

[DeletedUser110179]

@ Dane thorson: I hope you win. I'm getting the OF Part 2 GB ... but it's great hanging out here ... lol. ♫

 

[Prinza the Hunter]

Waaahhh
I want 'em, I want 'em!

 

[DeletedUser110914]

I could use some Blueprints

 

[Prinza the Hunter]

"Blueprints" : it is strange the way that ancient technology (well, technology that was before most of us were born) still affects our language. I wonder how many people even know why we call drafting drawings 'blueprints.'

 

[DeletedUser110195]

Yes, only the oldest of the old, a minimum of 70 years, were alive during a time when blueprints were still used, and they were called that because the sheets the designs were printed on was, you guessed it, blue.

 

[DeletedUser108047]

actually the paper was white and coated with a ferro-gallate solution which was light sensitve and when exposed to light turned blue - the blueprint was created by putting translucent paper with the drawing on it (the master original) on top of the ferro-gallate coated paper then exposing both to light. The white paper turned blue except where the drawing lines on the master original created a shadow....

 

[DeletedUser110195]

So they're the schematic equivalent of negatives.

 

[Prinza the Hunter]

So they're the schematic equivalent of negatives.

Yes, in a way. It was a very early form of photocopying, expensive but justified by being still a small part of the cost of a building.

Early photocopying machines for large sheets printed in blue ink, too. That wasn't technologically necessary but done to be more similar to what people were used to, so reinforced the term "blueprint".

 

[DeletedUser110195]

And now it's a general term meaning a detailed plan to accomplish something.

 

[DeletedUser110179]

 

[DeletedUser110195]

Nifty

 

[Prinza the Hunter]

OK, enough of this interesting academic stuff, let's get back to the garbage normally found on this thread!

 

[DeletedUser110195]

Garbage?! This thread is full of comedy genius! How insulting!

 

[Prinza the Hunter]

There was a young... nah, too late at night to come up with one of those.

 

[DeletedUser110195]

This thread has gone much too quiet....

 

[Prinza the Hunter]

Well thank goodness somebody posted!

Perhaps we need another genuine topic to discuss, after all.

Why is the age between early and late middle ages called 'high'. I know that "middle Middle Ages" would be a bit silly but is 'high' really the right word?

 

[DeletedUser110195]

It's a reference to the way the sun appears to move across the sky, same reason we call it 'high' noon.

 

[DeletedUser110179]

Originally the Middle Ages was called the Dark Ages ... partly because so little was known about the 500 years after the decline of the Western Roman Empire in 476 AD.