The OFFICIAL Countdown To Lockn 2017 Thread

[worf rat]

Oct 17, 2016 23:39:33 GMT -5 smosey wales said:

who can name that tune?

Phantom 309. Red Sovine. My Pappy was a truck driver.



My favorite is "Giddy-up Go," though...

[mccjeff]

Oct 17, 2016 23:39:33 GMT -5 smosey wales said:

who can name that tune?

I can see the future!!!

[smosey wales]

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--Firesign Theater

[TOO $]

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[smosey wales]

now that's an obtuse reference.

Not giving it away but I call "firstie" on getting it besides OP and, obviously, TOO, who knows all things, obtuse and obvious.

[mccjeff]

I think that may be a 30/30 round and so Wyoming must be 30/29? Is that right? Are we 30/29 days from Lockn? Hard to tell from the information given.

[TOO $]

Oct 20, 2016 9:29:05 GMT -5 mccjeff said:

I think that may be a 30/30 round and so Wyoming must be 30/29? Is that right? Are we 30/29 days from Lockn? Hard to tell from the information given.

Yesterday's picture shows a .308 round...

[hondo]

Oct 20, 2016 9:38:12 GMT -5 TOO $ said:

Oct 20, 2016 9:29:05 GMT -5 mccjeff said:

I think that may be a 30/30 round and so Wyoming must be 30/29? Is that right? Are we 30/29 days from Lockn? Hard to tell from the information given.

Yesterday's picture shows a .308 round...

So Wyoming's area code is 307.

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Oct 20, 2016 9:44:46 GMT -5 hondo said:

Oct 20, 2016 9:38:12 GMT -5 TOO $ said:

Yesterday's picture shows a .308 round...

So Wyoming's area code is 307.

One of 12 states with one area code!

And sorry for jumping the gun this morning TOO. Should have had more deference! 

[mccjeff]

Oct 20, 2016 9:38:12 GMT -5 TOO $ said:

Oct 20, 2016 9:29:05 GMT -5 mccjeff said:

I think that may be a 30/30 round and so Wyoming must be 30/29? Is that right? Are we 30/29 days from Lockn? Hard to tell from the information given.

Yesterday's picture shows a .308 round...

How do you know?

[TOO $]

Oct 20, 2016 9:55:03 GMT -5 mccjeff said:

Oct 20, 2016 9:38:12 GMT -5 TOO $ said:

Yesterday's picture shows a .308 round...

How do you know?

I found it by googling 308 images

[mccjeff]

THAT picture I know is 308. How do I know? Because it says 308.

[TOO $]

Oct 20, 2016 9:54:56 GMT -5 @blueindian said:

Oct 20, 2016 9:44:46 GMT -5 hondo said:

So Wyoming's area code is 307.

One of 12 states with one area code!

And sorry for jumping the gun this morning TOO. Should have had more deference! 

Please feel free to add. I like the audience participation.

[TOO $]

Oct 20, 2016 10:02:10 GMT -5 mccjeff said:

THAT picture I know is 308. How do I know? Because it says 308.

I guess that I could have originally posted the photo with the number 308 beside it but it just didn't seem like that would be as much fun.

[Bird700level]

Technically that picture would mean we have 7 hours, 23 minutes and 31.2 seconds until Lock'n 2017. Why do you toy with my emotions?

[mccjeff]

Oct 20, 2016 10:34:08 GMT -5 Bird700level said:

Technically that picture would mean we have 7 hours, 23 minutes and 31.2 seconds until Lock'n 2017. Why do you toy with my emotions?

It was probably a 30-06 so Wyoming is 30-05 or 25 day to Lockn.

[smosey wales]

Oct 20, 2016 10:43:48 GMT -5 mccjeff said:

Oct 20, 2016 10:34:08 GMT -5 Bird700level said:

Technically that picture would mean we have 7 hours, 23 minutes and 31.2 seconds until Lock'n 2017. Why do you toy with my emotions?

It was probably a 30-06 so Wyoming is 30-05 or 25 day to Lockn.

save that thought for days 25 and 26.

You can tell that the original is a .308 by the shoulder of the cartridge and plainly seeing the diameter of the bullet at the neck. A 30-30 is .008 inches bigger.

[mccjeff]

I tried to use my calipers on the screen to measure that but it came out as bigger than a 50 cal so I didn't know what to think.

[smosey wales]

do you also use white-out on the screen?

[TOO $]

[mccjeff]

Do I need to know what the address of the Victor Talking Machine Company was in Camden, NJ to solve the riddle? Or maybe it is you assign numerical values to the letters in "Stars and Stripes Forever March" and add them all together. Or maybe it is John Phillip Sousa's age when he wrote it multiplied by the number of dogs that modeled for the logo divided by.... Oh wait it plainly says 306 right there on it.

[mccjeff]

Victor had acquired the Pan-American rights to use the famous trademark of the fox terrier Nipper listening to a gramophone when Berliner and Johnson joined their fledgling companies. (See also His Master's Voice.) The original painting was an oil on canvas by Francis Barraud in 1898 as a memorial to his deceased brother, a London photographer, who willed him his estate including his DC-powered Edison-Bell cylinder phonograph with a case of cylinders—some home-recorded—and his dog Nipper. Barraud noticed that whenever he played a cylinder recorded by his brother, the little dog would run to the horn, cock his ear and listen intently. Barraud's original depicts Nipper staring intently into the horn of an Edison-Bell while both sit on a polished wooden surface. The horn on the Edison-Bell machine was black and after a failed attempt at selling the painting to a cylinder record supplier of Edison Phonographs in the UK, a friend of Barraud's suggested that the painting could be brightened up (and possibly made more marketable) by substituting one of the brass-belled horns on display in the window at the new gramophone shop on Maiden Lane. The London branch was managed by an American, William Barry Owen. Barraud paid a visit with a photograph of the painting and asked to borrow a horn. Owen gave Barraud an entire gramophone and asked him to paint it into the picture, offering to buy the result. The original painting still shows the contours of the Edison-Bell phonograph beneath the paint of the gramophone when viewed in the correct light.[1] Only 13 originally commissioned "His Master's Voice" paintings were commissioned by the company[citation needed] and the original belongs to the archives at EMI (the successor company to Victor's partner in the United Kingdom).

In 1915, the "His Master's Voice" logo was rendered in immense circular leaded-glass windows in the tower of the Victrola factory building. The tower remains today with replica windows installed during Radio Corporation of America's ownership of the plant in its later years. Today, one of the original windows is located at the Smithsonian museum in Washington, D.C.

[buddy74]

I never knew that. Thanks!

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Oct 21, 2016 9:56:53 GMT -5 buddy74 said:

I never knew that. Thanks!

This large statue of Nipper sat on the roof of a building in Baltimore for many decades, much to the delight of everyone who ever saw it.  It was removed a few years ago but still exists.

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