The man inside the clock is wearing blue overalls and has a yellow rag in his pocket. The Schiphol Airport clock was created by Baas in 2016. This creative timepiece is the latest work of Maarten Baas, a well-known Dutch artist and designer that has a series of similar live clock recordings. The painter is actually a 12-hour-long recording, that gives a convincing illusion that a human is standing inside the translucent clock, busy at work as the hands go around. Schiphol Airport in the Netherlands is no exception, but it offers a twist: a giant clock that appears as if a man is busy painting it real time, minute by minute. This is why most airports are full of clocks everywhere, helping to guide harried travelers. THOUGH THE SDSAB DOES ITS BEST, THESE COLUMNS ARE EDITED BY ED ZOTTI, NOT CECIL, SO ACCURACYWISE YOU'D BETTER KEEP YOUR FINGERS CROSSED.Time is important at an airport, with thousands of people running back and forth trying to get their plane on time. Send questions to Cecil via REPORTS ARE WRITTEN BY THE STRAIGHT DOPE SCIENCE ADVISORY BOARD, CECIL'S ONLINE AUXILIARY. The word clerk and clerical have the same origin. The word “clergy”, by the way, comes from the Latin clericus (a priest) and from the Greek klerikos, which ultimately derive from the Greek keros, a piece of wood used in drawing lots. The term can be applied to a minister or clergyman of any Christian denomination. Jonathan Swift uses it in this sense in 1701, and so it has come down to us. The term “man of the cloth” was thus originally applied to mean any livery, any clothes that distinguished a profession.īy the late 17th Century, the meaning had been restricted to the clerical profession, a minister or clergyman who wore professional garb. Another aside: The competition was so intense amongst the nobility for having splendidly dressed servants that Henry VII prosecuted nobles who gave liveries.)įrom the elegant costumes of servants, other liveries arose–“clothes of calling,” uniforms that became associated with certain professions. (Aside: The term “livery” itself derives from "delivery" the clothes were delivered to the servant by the master. The next major step in the history is back in the days when royalty and nobility provided livery, namely, clothes for a servant. It was clath or clathe in Old English, and the change of the vowel may have been influenced by the name of the Fate. The English word “cloth” does not directly derive from Clotho, but rather from a Germanic root of uncertain origin. Clotho was the one who spun the thread of life, which was then measured by Lachesis and cut by Atropos. We start with the word "cloth," which may have been influenced by Clotho, one of the three fates in ancient Greek myths. I’ll try to limit the asides, and keep mostly on track here. One of the joys of this kind of research is the little things one finds out along the way. Also, is the term appropriate for clergymen of any religion (rabbis, imams, voodoo witchdoctors, etc.) or is it reserved for Catholic priests? Eliezer Ben-Shmuel, Pittsburg (yes, its really spelled that way), California Dear Straight Dope: What is the origin of the term “man of the cloth”? I know its used to refer to priests, but why “man of the cloth” instead of man of the cross or something.
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