Sun 22 Apr 2007
We’re back and have a lot of catching up to do. You don’t need a breakdown - it’s just a long, meandering show where we try to cover all the things we’ve been neglecting.
Sun 22 Apr 2007
We’re back and have a lot of catching up to do. You don’t need a breakdown - it’s just a long, meandering show where we try to cover all the things we’ve been neglecting.
April 22nd, 2007 at 10:03 pm
Wooooohooo! And I haven’t even listened yet!
April 23rd, 2007 at 7:21 am
Ditto.
April 23rd, 2007 at 1:09 pm
Great to have you guys back.
April 23rd, 2007 at 9:35 pm
Pitcairn Island is the home to the Bounty descendants and it’s a fascinating place. I look them up every so often. According to Wikipedia, “To get to Pitcairn it is necessary to fly to Tahiti, then Mangareva, then embark on a further 30-hour boat ride. There is one boat every several months.”
Jana’s estimate of a population of 200 was actually wildly high. There are approximately 50 people there, some of them from abroad. Their website gives a list of everyone on the island and their ages, and you have to wonder how they manage to keep going. You’ve got your choice of maybe 3 or 4 potential partners near your age and not in your immediate family, and that’s it. I shudder to think about the potential for massive inbreeding.
April 23rd, 2007 at 10:53 pm
Welcome back! A great pot-pouris.
One of my favourite TV personalities, Rod Hull (of ‘Rod Hull and Emu’ fame), died after falling off the roof of his house while trying to adjust his television aerial. I think of him every time I go up high on a ladder.
See http://www.povonline.com/cols/COL236.htm for a good description of this Australian export, although watching Emu in action attacking famous people is priceless and can’t really be captured with the written word. Much missed.
Ladders can be very dangerous things. If you are going to be up somewhere fairly regularly, screw an eye-bolt to the wall near the top. That way you can rope the ladder to the wall when you get up there.
Clipping a ’stand-off’ to the top of the ladder makes it more pleasant for reaching things like gutters and for resting your bucket and tools on. It also makes the ladder’s grip on the wall a bit firmer.
For going on the roof itself, adding a ‘ridge hook’ to your ladder is well worth it. You run the ladder up on the wheels until the hook is over the top of the ridge, then you turn the ladder over and the hook then clips onto the ridge. You can then safely climb the roof.
A bag or two of gravel or similar at the bottom of the ladder helps stop the foot sliding away.
And a word of advice about climbing a knotted rope to access a high gutter: don’t.
April 24th, 2007 at 4:28 am
It’s so great to hear you guys again. It’s like old friends came back from vacation or something. You need to get some Muffintot pics up so we can virtually pinch her cheeks.
April 24th, 2007 at 5:29 am
Hi and welcome back!
The old comic strips I sent use double-entendres that are perhaps rather American and dated. The Joker going on about his boner was a reference to some whopping mistake he had made, which perhaps Batman had misconstrued as a clue (or not a clue?) to help him catch the Joker. It was common in my youth to call that “pulling a boner,” which was more commonly used than today’s predominantly phallocentric usage.
Butt-stroking is an old (perhaps WWII?) reference to a close-combat technique. When you butt-stroke your enemy, you are too close to him to shoot your rifle, so you hit him with the butt of your rifle, typically in the head, using the usual two-handed rifle grip. Butt-stroking could be called the rifle equivalent of pistol-whipping, which is still in common usage today.
-V
April 24th, 2007 at 11:01 am
I was deeply impressed at how well put together you both sounded. And Muffintot was so cooperative! What a great new co-host!
Zan, heed the ladder warnings. Oh, wait, you didn’t make it to the top. THAT was a relief. My dad missed that first step off the roof onto the ladder and broke his back falling 6 or 7 feet down to the asphalt driveway. He recovered but it was a terrifying experience for everybody.
Vibeeen, thank you for the definitions. Those phrases gained a lot in the translation.
April 24th, 2007 at 11:36 am
You can actually anchor yourself to the chimney if you are wearing a harness, it is a common practice. You need a climbing harness some proper rope and some carbiners and such. However, having said that, I wouldn’t do it, I have a fear of falling from high places.
Also, welcome back!
April 24th, 2007 at 3:32 pm
I was going to ask for a link to the aforementioned comic strips but after a bit of googling I came up with it.
April 24th, 2007 at 3:34 pm
and then didn’t include it.
It is here
April 24th, 2007 at 8:31 pm
Excellent. Welcome back! Now I have some BYU to load up for my bicycling trip today. WooHoo!
April 25th, 2007 at 6:13 am
Hey, Kevin. You really pulled a boner when you forgot to include the link the first time around.
April 25th, 2007 at 3:07 pm
Awesome show, Z&J! It’s so nice to have you back!
If possible, can you say a little about your experiences becoming new parents? I mean, that’s the big news in your lives, it would be nice to share the experience vicariously, if you’re comfortable.
Thanks again!
Vibeeen
April 26th, 2007 at 3:47 am
Congratulations on the arrivial of the` ankle biter.
I am catching up from show #35, so hope to be upto date soon
In one of your earlier episodes there was something about male lactation. Is Zan doing this so Jana can sleep through the night.
In the #30’s sets, I have not come across Uncle Bob, this is my favourite segment. If he is off bring him back
April 26th, 2007 at 4:19 am
Hey, Larrakin!
I think you’ve been gone even longer than Zan and Jana. Welcome back!
April 26th, 2007 at 11:42 am
A new BYU episode and spring is popping out all over. Coincidence … I think not!
Lovely to hear your voices again!
April 27th, 2007 at 3:25 am
Hey Tvindy,
I Know, you would think I had been buttstroked!