Wednesday, July 29, 2009

Why it's called painting

Originally, painting was considered the most tedious part of construction and was called gliplopoling. Painters would often come home with extreme back and neck pains from a hard day of work. To describe these pains, gliplopoling was renamed painting, it was much easier to pronounce.
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