Humpday Triviola

Re: Humpday Triviola

I don't think it is Stagg, the blind man, but Dolly Varden is bouncing around in the far reaches of my brain.

Ok but....

...if you want to earn the Golden Uni you'll need to name the building material!

T.

Re: Ok but....

I want it-I want it. No cosmolene, please.

A little history. In 1938 my parents had their one and only house built for $2850.00 in Elmont , N.Y. It had wooden siding which my father called clapboard. When I was about 14, a piece of the siding had rotted and as my father worked nights and slept days, I had the job of walking to the lumber yard 2 miles away to buy a piece to replace the rotted piece. I took a small piece of the siding with me and asked the man for 10' length of clapboard like the piece I had. He said- "that's not clapboard, that's Dolly Varden". I thought Dolly Varden was a brand of ice cream. Strange what you remember when you first enter senility. The answer Alex, is Dolly Varden siding.

Personally

I'd much rather look at Dolly Parton sideways. (I mean when she was less old.) "You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap!"

Dolly Parton

Re: Personally

Out west it is called siding, in the south clapboard and in the north weatherboard. Out here a Dolly Varden is a trout fly pattern.

Stephen

Correctamundo! Answer

Ken,

Technicians are busily removing the cosmoline from your Golden Uni as we speak.

Dolly Varden siding is a special mill cut of siding that has a thick bevel pattern with a 1/2" rabbeted edge. The siding panels are applied horizontally and fit together tightly protecting the joints from water infiltration. Unlike standard beveled siding, Dolly Varden�s back side fits flat against the substrate. This sturdy siding board is still used as an exterior cladding on buildings today.

Dolly Varden was the heroine in Charles Dickens� novel, Barnaby Rudge (1841), Apparently readers found Dolly to be so irresistible that they named a waltz, a rose, a trout, and even a siding pattern for her.

Well done sir!

Tom