OK first of all let me start by saying that this is related to "Sims 4"
And specifically to one single neighborhood in Sims 4, called (I can never remember, hang on)
"del Sol Valley" Which, uhm, I always associated with the Hollywood area of California.
Hollywood has hills where rich (well off) people supposedly live,
and they stuck "Valley" in there too, like in "The Valley" which got mentioned on "Johnny Carson" a lot.
I don't know where "Del sol" comes from, "Sun Valley"? O, now I have another thing to look up to complete this %$# intro:
OK so the expansion pack is either close to hollywood, or the valley, or "Sun Valley".
And....
(bombastic enough for ya yet??)
ONE of the lots in Del-Sol-Valley is named "Upland Place"
So, it's like those tract-homes that get a name to look fancy, but aren't on any map usually.
So....
Where is "Upland??"
Is it for the rich, the famous?
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| No |
No.
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This next bit is fictional and Trivia,
(as if the rest of this was non-fictional and important? Whatever)
"Upland Place", being a smaller lot in a middle-low-class neighborhood in Del Sol Valley, isn't much to look at, so I tore it down and made a bank instead.
It's full of vaults, and has a piano player, and looks like a very well dressed bank, except banks don't have bathrooms, and this one does.
Maybe it's more of a very-small-mall with a bank inside.
Trains come by at least hourly, and some are worth mentioning, some not.
*this* train, "who invented napkins (for dinner)" is both bombastic and contradictory.
Remember that punishment assignment in school, "Life inside a ping-pong-ball?"
Like that.
*this* site is prettier and more interesting, but can't actually be true (can it?)
https://www.garciadepou.com/blog/en/the-napkin-leonardo-da-vincis-invention/#:~:text=da%20Vinci%27s%20invention-,The%20napkin%3A%20Leonardo%20da%20Vinci%27s%20invention,invented%20the%20napkin%20in%201491.The bombastic-king, Wikipedia, sets the record straight.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napkin but if you read it very carefully, paper was invented in China a long time ago, but Napkins is a way different deal. They sort of fudge facts together, the way historians do.
This next bit is a little bit inscrutable (and surprising, to me, paper being cheap)
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| "at this time", what time was that??? |
2nd century (footnote e)
2nd century chinese time, or second century Gregorian-calendar time? (Very confusing, at least to me, but I've decided (one day later) that "2nd century" is 200AD, which doesn't explain the 400-year discrepancy between wrapping paper and napkins)
If you've been following along, Napkins were originally used by Greeks,
Or Leonardo Da Vinci,
or the Chinese.
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| %$#@ WHUT?! |
I think I've proven that contradictory information exists, and so the next bit is or is
not true:
"CE" is a hyper-pretentious way of just saying the damned year.
My Gawd, Napkins? geez.
So if you can believe them, um,
"The Last supper" didn't have any.
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Secondary ROTD when was hair perming invented?
(besides the obvious, it was very hot in that palace) |
Let's review: Chinese wrapping paper is
ancient, Napkins much less so.
Wait, 200BC to 200AD is a dynasty (the wrapping paper dynasty)
and Napkins were 600AD, hmm.
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| Yeahbutt...who invented Napkins and WHEN? |
Talking with footnotes just isn't done (Unless it's a comedy-routine) so this gigantic footnote (which was just accidentally erased)
(so you're seeing an edited version)
should not be here.
But it is!
When I wrote about "CE" (common era) above, I thought about "JAG" (the show) and their pretentious way of announcing the time.
S L O W L Y, is if it were earlier than 1980 and 300 baud modems were still being used in the navy.
But this was a TV show, and boats and subs certainly must have had clocks. We're supposed to believe that all clocks everywhere (or at least in JAG headquarters) were tuned to "ZULU" time.
Fine, but their clock wasn't just slow, it was always wrong.
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| Two of 26 people are always contrarian a-holes |
The entire show was pretentious, down to the way they saluted, but it's a themed-show to go with westerns and cop-shows on the old-guy-conservative rerun channel.
*my* take, bombastic folderol, nearly true (only it's not, skip to the link):GMT is too racist and Eurocentric, so UTC was invented, but Contrarians everywhere lobbied for ZULU which sounds encoded, because it was, for a minute or so (to give off that clubby, insider-vibe)
But They mean the same thing, it's just pretension magnified for your benefit.
Someone, somewhere, I swear, must have figured a newer clubbier way to announce time:
-9 or maybe +8.
As in, "what's your 20?"
"+9"
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