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Planning the Renovation

Claudia · February 17, 1948 · 14 min · 2,382 words

The transcript of “Planning the Renovation”, an episode of Claudia first broadcast February 17, 1948. Press a time to play from that line (a 60-second preview; Potato Plus plays it all). Laugh Track plays Claudia free, live around the clock. Search inside this transcript.

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Your Coca-Cola bottle represents Claudia Claudia based on the play and novels by Rose Franken Proud to you transcribe Monday through Friday by your friendly neighbor who bottles Coca-Cola Relax and while you're listening refresh yourself Have a Coke and now Claudia David Why are blueprints blue?

Don't ask silly questions. What's silly about that? I don't know the answer. You won't understand even if I do tell you. Try me and see. After all, I'm now ready to an architect. The least you can do is tell me why blueprints are blue.

Well, because blueprints are negatives. You mean negatives like photographs that aren't photographs yet? Exactly. But they aren't photographs, are they? And never will be. Darling, they have to be able to be photographed because they're negatives.

because they're negative except photographs are usually positive and the positive is a photograph printed. Why are they blue? Claudia, isn't there something that you have to do? There's nothing I have to do. It's 8.30 and cities to the dishes and we're spending a quiet evening at home discussing our new house.

And all I want to know is why our blueprints blue and why they're negative is a positive. And you said they're photographed and they're not even photographed. and send me patience. I had to go and be an architect. I look at me. Imagine a photograph. I'm an imagine. The photograph is a print. A what? Of a

negative. Oh, and a blueprint is a negative. Exactly. But to print it. I said that a photograph is a print as a negative and a blueprint as a negative printed. Then why isn't it a photograph? Because it's a print of a negative. A photograph is a print of a positive. Oh, why don't they print it positive? You could have a positive made

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