A fun retrospective, Jim -- except for the corn part!
Phil W7OX
On 8/11/16 10:29 AM, Jim Brown wrote:
Indeed the finished dimension of lumber HAS
changed. Renovating the wood frame home I owned
in Chicago, built around the turn of the
century, after the Great Chicago Fire, I found
REAL 2" x 4" and 2" x 6" lumber.
I also removed at least 100 ft of gas pipe used
for lighting. When first wired for electricity,
wiring was run through those pipes and light
fixtures replaced the gas lights. Obviously,
they were first disconnected from the gas line,
which was still used for heat. :)
Another thing that's changed is the sweet corn
that we can buy in the market -- it's now much
sweeter with little real corn taste. As long as
I've been eating it, corn was always hybridized
for taste, but it always tasted like corn. What
we get now is hybridized and genetically
engineered stuff that resists the chemicals used
to kill weeds. It looks like corn, but tastes
like a sugar bowl. Small farmers used to
harvest their own seeds to plant next year's
crop, and to grow corn that tasted the way they
and their customers wanted. But when that
chemical resistant stuff was invented something
like 10 years ago, Monsanto, the big seed
company that invented it, sued those farmers,
claiming that some of their patented stuff had
cross-fertilized those corn plants, and within a
few years, that phony corn is all we can buy. I
used to buy a half dozen ears, steam them, and
eat them for lunch. I haven't been able to do
that for years.
73, Jim K9YC
On Thu,8/11/2016 9:17 AM, Charlie T, K3ICH wrote:
Bad analogy. The 2 X 4 inch measurement of a
piece of construction lumber
is before planning, or rough cut lumber. The
finished dimension is more
like 3½ X 1½ which hasn't changed.
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