Comments on: She Had a Question, 1913 (5)

By: Researcher

Researcher — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 14:00:27 +0000

I don’t recall ever hearing the term “macadam” before we moved to the Mid-Atlantic Region. Where I grew up, driveways were made out of concrete. Almost all of the driveways around here are made of what I would call “blacktop.”

So when my husband and I were looking at homes here, some of the listings would specify “macadam” driveways. It took awhile to figure out what that meant since I always looked at the word and thought macadamia nuts rather than a 18th or 19th-century Scottish engineer.

By the way, I’m seeing him listed online as McAdam and MacAdam and Macadam. I wonder if the names are interchangeable.

By: HokieKate

HokieKate — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 13:31:52 +0000

Materials is Civil Engineering 305 at BYU, and Civil Engineering 3684 at my current school. Sophomores couldn’t handle the awesome knowledge that I strive to impart.

I never knew the etymology of “tarmac” before, thanks! And since we’re generally educating the public, cement is not the same thing as concrete.

By: David B

David B — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 06:26:04 +0000

For some reason i suspect that her description of the table decorations of “our ancestors with whom Thanksgiving originated” might not be utterly and completely historically accurate.

But whether it is or not, i wholeheartedly endorse this idea. This is why, when we have our next Thanksgiving dinner up here, i’m going to deliver the prayer the way the Puritans would have, face looking up toward heaven, arms outstretched so as to receive God’s blessings.

And depending on how tired of my current calling i am by then, maybe i’ll invite the bishop over.

By: Maurine Ward

Maurine Ward — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 22:17:22 +0000

The treatment for removing blackheads was very detailed. Now all I need is a needle, a touch of Borax, and some clean white muslin.

By: Last Lemming

Last Lemming — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 20:31:49 +0000

I have been called a Mormon by some, but I have a Buddhist temperament.

By: Diane Peel

Diane Peel — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 19:05:06 +0000

I think I-no, I KNOW, I am going to cancel my kindle subscription to Keepa. Not only does Ardis get none of my $1.99 monthly, but I MISS the comments.

By: Ardis E. Parshall

Ardis E. Parshall — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 16:59:36 +0000

He, he — no other blog in the ‘nacle could possibly have had such varied comments in the past hour!

By: CurtA

CurtA — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 16:55:37 +0000

What a spread of coverage, from folding (or not) napkins to Civil Engineering 201. But I do not hesitate to correct Catherine. MacAdam did not develop macadamizing in 1756, that was when he was born. His crushed rock system came into use about 60 years later. And, HokieKate, please join me in decrying the incorrect and ubiquitous use by the media of “tarmac” as the material your Boeing 757 taxis on at SLC International. That is PCC (Portland Cement Concrete). Tar bound macadam has insufficient compressive strength to carry the heavy wheel loads of commercial jets. – CurtA, retired Professional Civil Engineer.

By: kevinf

kevinf — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 16:37:27 +0000

Ha! Don’t have your fortune told, but Ms. Hurst totally dodged the peepstone question!

By: Paul

Paul — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 16:37:16 +0000

I assumed that the use of fork with either hand suggested that a left handed person need not use the right hand. That notion, however, might run counter to pressure to turn south-paws into right-handers.

I’m musing on what I can send my naughty children to do outside…