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dot net. Enjoy your exploration. Hey, it's me that guy
that's always asking questions. And the reason why is because
the fun begins when you start doing the research. Imagine that,
like when it comes to professional wrestling, why is it
called the squared circle plus airline travel? It once featured
wide open seating any place, anytime, So what's changed here?
My name is Errow. I'm a daily writer, a silent wolf.
That means I stand on the sidelines and do nothing
but watch, listen, study, than activate. I happen to call
it the Daily Mess because it's a chronological walk through
an everyday world. It is my morning writing as a
receiver of thoughts and ideas. We as people tend to
throw things to the side because we are convinced that
we're going to remember it later on. Yeah, Okay, when
a subject arrives inside of me, I know it's time
to dig in. It's still keeping that daily journal, but
by doing the research, that picture actually becomes clearer. This
is the daily mass. Pro wrestling has always called their
center ring the squared circle. What does that even mean? Well,
in the eighteen hundreds, wrestling matches actually took place inside
a circle. They were drawn in the dirt or surrounded
by the spectators. Because of that circle, those associated with
the sport of wrestling point the phrase the squared circle.
In later years, it eventually evolved into a square, mainly
because pro wrestlers and promoters took note of how the
squared platform with ropes actually worked better. It was easier
for crowds to see and much easier to create the stage.
Although there was change, the name has still remained the
squared circle. But as a fan or innocent bystander, do
you know the size of such a squared circle? It's
twenty by twenty inside the ropes, compared to the original circle,
which was four feet smaller. The greatest thing to come
out of putting up the ropes and raising the plane
field still lives in the infamous turnbuckles, which, according to
insiders in professional wrestling, that's where the greatest stories of
professional wrestling still exist. Hey, coming up next, when did
airplane travel move to a sign seating? What what you mean?
We used to get to sit anywhere we wanted. Really, Hey,
welcome back to the daily mess. When did airplane travel
move to assigned seating? Well, the idea for such a
question arrived while watching an episode of Rod Serlings The
Twilight Zone, which premiered on CBS in nineteen fifty nine.
It's very important to bring this up because it opened
up my mind as a viewer to see how we
once traveled around the world. And yes, it involved first come,
first serve seating. Between the nineteen twenties and early nineteen seventies,
assigned seating was not part of the daily flight plan.
You bought a ticket and sat anywhere. My goodness, flights
were smaller and less crowded. This meant the airlines didn't
have to put focus on crowd control. It was after
World War Two that airline travel increased. Operational efficiency became
important due to balance. It also opened up the door
for faster seating. Now here's the shocker. Not all airlines
even today have invested in the idea of assigned seating.
Say it with me, Southwest Airlines. They still believe in
open boarding, which they started in nineteen seventy one. That's
when you physically got your ticket at the airport and
not online like we do it today. So much change
and yet not really, not really. But I hope you
enjoyed your flight. We'll see you again, right, I'll see
you next time. I'm the daily mass