swelter heavily in the bent gantry, you gelded Emmits. Welcome to the blind boy podcast. Why am I using the word

gantry? I just scrapped an entire podcast about the etymology of the word gantry. I frequently

mention that this podcast is about failure.

Not just failure, but having the time to fail.

And sometimes I'll write and record an entire podcast and it's just not good enough and I'll scrap it.

And that's what happened this week. When I tried to do a podcast

on the etymology of the word gantry, I thought I had it out of my fucking system.

I'm just fascinated by the word gantry, okay? But it's not interesting enough to merit an

entire podcast.

I wasn't going to talk about it.

So Gantry is an interesting word because you don't hear it much and when you do hear it,

it's just one of those words that it reveals something about the person who's saying it. If you heard a person say gantry in everyday parlance, chances are that person works with electrical

equipment of some description. A gantry is the type of balcony. You'll hear someone calling a

balcony a gantry, but that's not correct.

So a balcony, a balcony is about pleasure and leisure.

A gantry is about function.

If you're driving now along the motorway and you look up at a large motorway sign or lights

and then in front of that sign. There's a little balcony.

It's not a balcony that's a gantry. Same big giant billboard, big advertisement on the side of the road.

Sometimes if you're lucky enough, usually very, very early in the morning, if you're lucky enough,

you get to see the person putting up

the new billboard with a bucket of paste and a roller.

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