tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-300473759380947451.post9014028175192317435..comments2023-05-08T06:54:06.461-07:00Comments on Pixels, Politics, Posies and Pussycats: JUST CURIOUSJACKIEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11883028058826030899noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-300473759380947451.post-18769035727150651472006-05-26T22:30:00.000-07:002006-05-26T22:30:00.000-07:00So it's just the way I am, but someone asks a ...So it's just the way I am, but someone asks a question and I think, "Gee, why do they do that?" and I drive myself crazy until I find an answer. The Wikipedia entry for Roman Numerals says...<br><br>"The film industry has used them perhaps since its inception to denote the year a film was made, so that it could be redistributed later, either locally or to a foreign country, without making it immediately clear to viewers what the actual date was. This became more useful when films were broadcast on television to partially conceal the age of films. From this came the policy of the broadcasting industry, including the BBC, to use them to denote the year in which a television program was made (the Australian Broadcasting Corporation has largely stopped this practice but still occasionally lapses)."<br><br>I guess that makes as much sense as anything else. I also read somewhere while searching around that back in the late 1800s & early 1900s using roman numerals was supposedly a sign of sophistication. Since that was around the time that the movie industry started, maybe they started putting them on movies to show the media's sophistication and it just became a habit.<br><br>And yes, some of those Mapquest routes are a little insane. Where I live you can go up a major highway and get on the interstate but sometimes the routes they plot out call for me to go across town on back roads to get on the freeway.<br>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-300473759380947451.post-84474841533927737572006-05-26T22:58:00.000-07:002006-05-26T22:58:00.000-07:00I can't read Roman numerals once they get into...I can't read Roman numerals once they get into L's and M's. I've always thought it was pretentious to use those instead of regular numbers. Stupid Hollywood! <br><br>Hug,<br>RussAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-300473759380947451.post-90444571263967622282006-05-31T08:10:00.000-07:002006-05-31T08:10:00.000-07:00Don't you just love Duane (fdtate)? Always th...Don't you just love Duane (fdtate)? Always the busy little researcher! (He's a fellow Blue-Voicer...) Thanks for the info, Duane!<br><br>And, RE the country west of Salem: It really IS beautiful out there. But not a great place to drive a big rig. Lisa :-] Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com