Comments on: Holiday

By: Jake Easterwood

Jake Easterwood — Sat, 26 Dec 2015 12:06:54 +0000

So I wouldn’t be all that far off if I told you something like… “Your rocker took a holiday.”?

By: Bruce Tomczak

Bruce Tomczak — Fri, 18 Dec 2015 17:47:36 +0000

I first learned of the term holiday when I was painting at McMurdo Station in Antarctica. The foreman warned us about holidays. I had to have the term explained to me, and I had been painting professionally for 15 years. We even had an electronic holiday meter that measured the thickness of the layer of paint we applied. It seemed to work.

By: Reinhold Dohmann

Reinhold Dohmann — Sat, 20 Jun 2015 03:42:14 +0000

Just an Just an old English Phrase. Meaning (Not There) Nothing to do with Holyday as far as religion or anything else. Straight forward. Holiday in construction, means, material is missing

By: Reinhold Dohmann

Reinhold Dohmann — Sat, 20 Jun 2015 01:30:59 +0000

Gentlemen

Indeed the word, Holiday is of Old English, however it has nothing to do with holy day, in regards to religion or any thing of the sort.
First off, look at the spelling. Holy day.. Holiday..Second..the Old English term for Holiday, simply means, NOT THERE. In regards to the painting industry,road work,and any other trade where thickness of substrate is involved, this is the term used to document,improper thickness of coatings

By: Betsy Carlson

Betsy Carlson — Tue, 21 Jan 2014 23:57:34 +0000

My great-grandfather from Sweden taught my father to paint and pass on the terminology called holidays…not a good thing to do.

By: John Germaine

John Germaine — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 23:13:34 +0000

I well remember the neighborhood children referring to missed spots in mowing the yard as “holidays”, I thought because one took a short holiday from the task.

By: Pablito de Arizona

Pablito de Arizona — Thu, 23 Dec 2010 18:50:06 +0000

This is interesting. I painted for a living in the last century (but only for 22 years). The first time I ever heard the term “holiday,” referring to my poor workmanship, I knew exactly what was meant. Of course, that my boss was pointing at it helped. It never occurred to me, though, to find out the source of a painter’s “holiday.” Thank you–now that I don’t really need to know it anymore.

By: Steve Dunham

Steve Dunham — Mon, 20 Dec 2010 16:43:47 +0000

The sardonic meaning of “holiday” eludes me, of all people, generally regarded as a virtuoso of sarcasm. Does the nautical “holiday” for a missed spot mean that the person caulking the seam was not working when he should have been (if only momentarily)?

By: Charlie Nunzio

Charlie Nunzio — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 17:43:30 +0000

Comment on “Holiday” — My engineering job, included working with a machinist to design and build test fixtures made from aluminum alloy plate. Sometimes, due to an error in my design drawing or a slip my the machinist, a hole was drilled in the wrong location. The machinist could fill in such mistakes with an aluminum weld. He called this cosmetic fix “Hollywooding.” So if a missed spot is a “holiday,” perhaps it can be fixed by “Hollywooding.”