Comments on: HN 139 – The catchup show – (805)725-5085

By: Colin G

Colin G — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 01:16:58 +0000

We were having a bit of an early spring clean earlier and I found something else to send to your PO Box…

By: Paul Roberts

Paul Roberts — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 19:43:07 +0000

@Orange Tim: San Francisco cable car system is the world’s last permanently operational manually-operated cable car system, they’re not trams as the cars are pulled from a cable that the cars grip on to. (it must be true it’s in wikipidia)

@Erk @ the Erk Pod: Marmite > Vegemite.

By: Orange Tim

Orange Tim — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 07:16:18 +0000

I try. My podcast, when it gets relaunched into the podosphere, is going to such an ecclectic mix of subjects!

My interest in firearms is not one shared by many, but love them or loathe them, we live in a world of firearms. They can be used for good and bad, just like most things in this world.

The girls at work reckon I’m a sponge. I absorb all this information just for the sake of it. It comes in handy at trivia nights though! LOL!

By: MzMelanie

MzMelanie — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 07:09:06 +0000

Oh and FYI…it’s AWESOME jen got out of B AND N

By: MzMelanie

MzMelanie — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 07:07:54 +0000

Good show! Work SUCKED tonite it was the only good thing about tonite….cops are douchebags!

By: Erk @ the Erk Pod

Erk @ the Erk Pod — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 06:39:49 +0000

All Orange Tim has to do now is to record the audio (my spam word) and he has a new episode for his podcast!

By: Shawno

Shawno — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 02:39:08 +0000

Tim knew all of that without having to look any of it up.

By: Orange Tim

Orange Tim — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 02:31:07 +0000

Happy New Years and all that guff! Another $5 million bucks worth of fireworks exploded over Sydney and the joy of proof reading patient notes to see who has written 08 instead of 09.

Hate to rain on San Fran’s parade, but they’re not the last city in the world to have trolley/trolley cars/trams/tram cars/street cars. Nor do they have the largest network. That “honour” goes to Melbourne, Australia. Melbourne has 499 trams running on 249 kilometres (155 miles) of track with 1770 tram stops. I rode trams in Instanbul, Turkey when I was there. Great way of getting around the place.

Loved all the photos you took of the Winchester rifles Shawno!

Winchester didn’t invent the repeating rifle, but he certainly did master it! A gentleman by the name of Walter Hunt designed a revoluntionary repeating rifle in 1848. In 1849 Lewis Jennings patented an improved version of Hunt’s design. His designed ceased production in 1852 due to financial troubles. In 1854 Horace Smith & Daniel B. Wesson purchased the rights to Jenning’s design and started a compnay called Volcanic Repeating Arms. In 1855 one Oliver Winchester invested in Volcanic Repeating Arms. A few years later Smith & Wesson left Volcanic Repeating Arms to create the now famous Smith & Wesson. In 1860 Winchester renamed the company New Haven Arms Company with head foreman Benjamin Tyler Henry. In 1866 New Haven Arms became Winchester Repeating Arms Company. Henry redesigned the rimfire ammunition developed by Wesson and redesigned a new repeating rifle retaining only the general form of the breech mechanism and the tubular magazine. This became the Winchester Model 1866. It’s successor, the Winchester Model 1873 became known as “The Gun That Won The West”. Successive Winchester lever action repeating rifles were Models 1876, 1886, 1892, 1894, 1895 and the Model 88 introduced in 1955, the first Winchester lever action rifle to use a box magazine instead of a tubular magazine.

OK, here endeth the firearms history lesson. )

Vegemite FTW! Do not accept immitations!

Sounds like you both had a wonderful time in San Fran. Oh and good show. )

By: Shawno

Shawno — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 22:03:48 +0000

LOLZ, David.

By: David van Sunder

David van Sunder — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 21:55:38 +0000

And creamy not crunchy. Crunchy are peanuts that can’t decide if they want to be peanuts or peanut butter or just a lazy peanut butter maker. You have to pick one!