| An odd problem... [message #32560] |
Di, 10 Mai 2005 20:08 |
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I have just produced for myself a rather odd and somewhat surreal
problem...
I needed to record tonight's Quandary Phase episode and went out
specially to buy a stereo audio cable. So far, so good.
Now for the fun bit. As I live in Ireland and Radio 4 doesn't actually
get transmitted here on anything other than cable (ntl) or Sky TV, I've
ended up recording tonight's episode onto video!
Worked wonderfully, but with a slight 'glitch'. The glitch being that
I now want to get the audio off of the video and onto my iMac. The TV
has all sorts of connectors - SCART, Audio Out (Left & Right), S-Video
and Compostite video. Which is nice as I have a large choice of bits
to connect to.
The problem is that the iMac hasn't actually got a stereo input on it.
Got a mono microphone socket and stereo speaker out also got more USB
ports and Firewire ports than I, in all probability, need but no stereo
audio in.
So, any ideas/suggestions/tea/laughter greatly welcomed!
Cheers,
Gary
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| Re: An odd problem... [message #32565 ] |
Di, 10 Mai 2005 20:15 |
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"GLH42" <glh42 [at] hotmail.com> wrote in news:1115748481.273368.93040
[at] f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com:
> I have just produced for myself a rather odd and somewhat surreal
> problem...
>
> I needed to record tonight's Quandary Phase episode and went out
> specially to buy a stereo audio cable. So far, so good.
>
> Now for the fun bit. As I live in Ireland and Radio 4 doesn't actually
> get transmitted here on anything other than cable (ntl) or Sky TV,
> I've ended up recording tonight's episode onto video!
>
> Worked wonderfully, but with a slight 'glitch'. The glitch being that
> I now want to get the audio off of the video and onto my iMac. The TV
> has all sorts of connectors - SCART, Audio Out (Left & Right), S-Video
> and Compostite video. Which is nice as I have a large choice of bits
> to connect to.
>
> The problem is that the iMac hasn't actually got a stereo input on it.
> Got a mono microphone socket and stereo speaker out also got more USB
> ports and Firewire ports than I, in all probability, need but no
> stereo audio in.
>
> So, any ideas/suggestions/tea/laughter greatly welcomed!
Get a real computer? (Just kidding!)
You can buy USB and Firewire soundcards, but they might be a bit
expensive for a one-time job.
You could record the channels one at a time through the mic socket, and
spend ages trying to synchronise them.
That's all I can think of off the top of my head!
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iain
afda [at] imb.clara.net http://www.zootle.net/afda/
"how can you say that iain is a furyy fpevcg?!" - kristen
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| Re: An odd problem... [message #32570 ] |
Di, 10 Mai 2005 20:56 |
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GLH42 wrote:
> I needed to record tonight's Quandary Phase episode and went out
> specially to buy a stereo audio cable. So far, so good.
Well, BBC has the Listen Again feature where you can get the RealMedia. Then
simply use something like NetTransport (sorry, Windows only) to capture the
RealMedia stream to a file on your hard disk.
Not just two, you get 5.1 surround audio with this! :)
--
Regards,
Manas.
____________________________________________________________ ______________
Manas Tungare, http://www.manastungare.com/
Ph.D. Student, Virginia Tech Computer Science.
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| Re: An odd problem... [message #32576 ] |
Di, 10 Mai 2005 21:30 |
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GLH42 wrote:
> I have just produced for myself a rather odd and somewhat surreal
> problem...
>
> I needed to record tonight's Quandary Phase episode and went out
> specially to buy a stereo audio cable. So far, so good.
>
> Now for the fun bit. As I live in Ireland and Radio 4 doesn't actually
> get transmitted here on anything other than cable (ntl) or Sky TV, I've
> ended up recording tonight's episode onto video!
>
> Worked wonderfully, but with a slight 'glitch'. The glitch being that
> I now want to get the audio off of the video and onto my iMac. The TV
> has all sorts of connectors - SCART, Audio Out (Left & Right), S-Video
> and Compostite video. Which is nice as I have a large choice of bits
> to connect to.
>
> The problem is that the iMac hasn't actually got a stereo input on it.
> Got a mono microphone socket and stereo speaker out also got more USB
> ports and Firewire ports than I, in all probability, need but no stereo
> audio in.
>
> So, any ideas/suggestions/tea/laughter greatly welcomed!
>
> Cheers,
>
> Gary
>
A thought...Could you not have accessed it through the BBC
website?....It streams as Real Audio....
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| Re: An odd problem... [message #32578 ] |
Di, 10 Mai 2005 21:36 |
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I did try the BBC RealAudio stream, but it tends to loose the plot
somewhere between London and Ireland :-(
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| Re: An odd problem... [message #32583 ] |
Di, 10 Mai 2005 21:54 |
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GLH42 wrote:
> I did try the BBC RealAudio stream, but it tends to loose the plot
> somewhere between London and Ireland :-(
>
LOL, Where in Ireland are you?
I'm a Bog Trotter myself....
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| Re: An odd problem... [message #32585 ] |
Di, 10 Mai 2005 21:57 |
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Ah, well you see I more of a "Plastic Paddy" moved to Galway from Luton
in Feb this year - best move I every made though. Much more relaxed
and easy going. And I also missed out on the UK political parties
talking spherical objects for the last few weeks...
Where might you be?
Cheers :-)
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| Re: An odd problem... [message #32591 ] |
Di, 10 Mai 2005 22:31 |
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GLH42 wrote:
> Ah, well you see I more of a "Plastic Paddy" moved to Galway from Luton
> in Feb this year - best move I every made though. Much more relaxed
> and easy going. And I also missed out on the UK political parties
> talking spherical objects for the last few weeks...
>
> Where might you be?
>
> Cheers :-)
>
I'm originally from Carrickfergus, but work took me to East Anglia
around 10 years ago, and I ended up settling in Norfolk....Some day I'll
come home again for good....
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| Re: An odd problem... [message #33998 ] |
Do, 12 Mai 2005 20:29 |
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Fat Sam wrote:
> GLH42 wrote:
>
>> Ah, well you see I more of a "Plastic Paddy" moved to Galway from Luton
>> in Feb this year - best move I every made though. Much more relaxed
>> and easy going. And I also missed out on the UK political parties
>> talking spherical objects for the last few weeks...
>>
>> Where might you be?
>>
>> Cheers :-)
>>
> I'm originally from Carrickfergus, but work took me to East Anglia
> around 10 years ago, and I ended up settling in Norfolk....Some day I'll
> come home again for good....
>
I thought Norfolk was in Virginia...
--
Tian
Saturday I walked a huge precinct in Oakland for Aimee
Allison with three other people. Maybe we got her a couple
of dozen votes she wouldn't have otherwise landed. Many
times we told people "your vote could make the difference."
http://tian.greens.org
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| Re: An odd problem... [message #34007 ] |
Do, 12 Mai 2005 21:02 |
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Tian Harter wrote:
> Fat Sam wrote:
>
>> GLH42 wrote:
>>
>>> Ah, well you see I more of a "Plastic Paddy" moved to Galway from Luton
>>> in Feb this year - best move I every made though. Much more relaxed
>>> and easy going. And I also missed out on the UK political parties
>>> talking spherical objects for the last few weeks...
>>>
>>> Where might you be?
>>>
>>> Cheers :-)
>>>
>> I'm originally from Carrickfergus, but work took me to East Anglia
>> around 10 years ago, and I ended up settling in Norfolk....Some day
>> I'll come home again for good....
>>
>
> I thought Norfolk was in Virginia...
>
Only Americans think that....Where do you think the settlers got the
name Norfolk from?....An awfull lot of place names in the USA can be
traced back to places in Europe....In particular, on the north east
coast of America, named after places in Britain....
I've just did a quick Multimap search of the north east coast of
America, and found the following list of places which are named after
places in the UK....
New England
New York
Boston
Washington
Manchester
Bristol
New Britain
Middletown
Dover
Hartford
Warwick
Norwich
Plymouth
New Bedford
Portsmouth
Exeter
Derry
Gloucester
Cambridge
New Hampshire
Bath
Bangor
Belfast
New London
Greenwich
Camden
Chester
Warminster
Reading
Oxford
Lancaster
Carlisle
Westminster
Dundalk
There are hundreds more, but I can't be bothered to look for any more....
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| Re: An odd problem... [message #34011 ] |
Do, 12 Mai 2005 21:40 |
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On Thu, 12 May 2005 11:29:40 -0700, Tian Harter
<DontBeFuelish [at] aol.com43897547> wrote:
>I thought Norfolk was in Virginia...
It is. It's other places too. Like Blighty:
http://www.abcounties.co.uk/counties/map.htm
That's Norfolk on the right, just above Suffolk.
Lloyd
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appears to be missing" -- Svlad Cjelli
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| Re: An odd problem... [message #34056 ] |
Fr, 13 Mai 2005 08:38 |
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On 12/05/2005 20:02, five wild Event Maelstroms swirled in vicious storms of
unreason and Fat Sam spewed up:
> Tian Harter wrote:
>
>> Fat Sam wrote:
>>
>>> GLH42 wrote:
>>>
>>>> Ah, well you see I more of a "Plastic Paddy" moved to Galway from Luton
>>>> in Feb this year - best move I every made though. Much more relaxed
>>>> and easy going. And I also missed out on the UK political parties
>>>> talking spherical objects for the last few weeks...
>>>>
>>>> Where might you be?
>>>>
>>>> Cheers :-)
>>>
>>> I'm originally from Carrickfergus, but work took me to East Anglia
>>> around 10 years ago, and I ended up settling in Norfolk....Some day
>>> I'll come home again for good....
>>
>> I thought Norfolk was in Virginia...
>
> Only Americans think that....Where do you think the settlers got the
> name Norfolk from?....An awfull lot of place names in the USA can be
> traced back to places in Europe....In particular, on the north east
> coast of America, named after places in Britain....
>
> I've just did a quick Multimap search of the north east coast of
> America, and found the following list of places which are named after
> places in the UK....
>
> New England
> New York
> Boston
> Washington
> Manchester
> Bristol
> New Britain
> Middletown
> Dover
> Hartford
> Warwick
> Norwich
> Plymouth
> New Bedford
> Portsmouth
> Exeter
> Derry
> Gloucester
> Cambridge
> New Hampshire
> Bath
> Bangor
> Belfast
> New London
> Greenwich
> Camden
> Chester
> Warminster
> Reading
> Oxford
> Lancaster
> Carlisle
> Westminster
> Dundalk
>
> There are hundreds more, but I can't be bothered to look for any more....
Peterborough, for example. And Halifax.
--
John Coxon
A day for firm decisions!!! Or is it?
Email: john[dot]coxon[at]gmail[dot]com
Website: http://alphacentauri.8k.com
Missing footnotes: http://www.nut.house.cx/cgi-bin/nemowiki.pl?ISFN
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| Re: An odd problem... [message #35606 ] |
Fr, 13 Mai 2005 18:16 |
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John Coxon wrote:
> On 12/05/2005 20:02, five wild Event Maelstroms swirled in vicious
> storms of unreason and Fat Sam spewed up:
>
>> Tian Harter wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> I thought Norfolk was in Virginia...
>>
>>
>> Only Americans think that....Where do you think the settlers got the
>> name Norfolk from?....An awfull lot of place names in the USA can be
>> traced back to places in Europe....In particular, on the north east
>> coast of America, named after places in Britain....
>>
>> I've just did a quick Multimap search of the north east coast of
>> America, and found the following list of places which are named after
>> places in the UK....
>>
>> New England
>> New York
>> Boston
>> Washington
(snip long list I don't want to make you scroll past...)
>> Carlisle
>> Westminster
>> Dundalk
>>
>> There are hundreds more, but I can't be bothered to look for any more....
>
>
> Peterborough, for example. And Halifax.
>
I live in Mountain View. Do you guys have a Mountain View?
Truthfully, Mountain View got its name from somebody that thought
they could sell land here to easterners with a picturesque name.
I gotta tell you, the mountains you can view from here are nothing
compared to the ones you can see 150 miles to the east of here.
--
Tian
Saturday I walked a huge precinct in Oakland for Aimee
Allison with three other people. Maybe we got her a couple
of dozen votes she wouldn't have otherwise landed. Many
times we told people "your vote could make the difference."
http://tian.greens.org
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| Re: An odd problem... [message #35615 ] |
Fr, 13 Mai 2005 18:38 |
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Tian Harter wrote:
> John Coxon wrote:
>
>> On 12/05/2005 20:02, five wild Event Maelstroms swirled in vicious
>> storms of unreason and Fat Sam spewed up:
>>
>>> Tian Harter wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> I thought Norfolk was in Virginia...
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Only Americans think that....Where do you think the settlers got the
>>> name Norfolk from?....An awfull lot of place names in the USA can be
>>> traced back to places in Europe....In particular, on the north east
>>> coast of America, named after places in Britain....
>>>
>>> I've just did a quick Multimap search of the north east coast of
>>> America, and found the following list of places which are named after
>>> places in the UK....
>>>
>>> New England
>>> New York
>>> Boston
>>> Washington
>
>
> (snip long list I don't want to make you scroll past...)
>
>>> Carlisle
>>> Westminster
>>> Dundalk
>>>
>>> There are hundreds more, but I can't be bothered to look for any
>>> more....
>>
>>
>>
>> Peterborough, for example. And Halifax.
>>
> I live in Mountain View. Do you guys have a Mountain View?
If we do, it's certainly not in Norfolk.....
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| Re: An odd problem... [message #35616 ] |
Fr, 13 Mai 2005 18:39 |
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On 13/05/2005 17:16, five wild Event Maelstroms swirled in vicious storms of
unreason and Tian Harter spewed up:
> I live in Mountain View. Do you guys have a Mountain View?
Don't think we do, actually.
--
John Coxon
A day for firm decisions!!! Or is it?
Email: john[dot]coxon[at]gmail[dot]com
Website: http://alphacentauri.8k.com
Missing footnotes: http://www.nut.house.cx/cgi-bin/nemowiki.pl?ISFN
ZZ9 - the official HHGG appreciation society: http://www.zz9.org/
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| Re: An odd problem... [message #35625 ] |
Fr, 13 Mai 2005 22:00 |
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"Tian Harter" <DontBeFuelish [at] aol.com43897547> wrote in message
news:d62k0o$9ri$1 [at] domitilla.aioe.org...
>
> I live in Mountain View. Do you guys have a Mountain View?
>
Nicest thing about Mountain View is all the freeways it has for driving away
from it very quickly. Sadly, most of the time they're clogged with people
trying to drive away from Mountain View as quickly as possible and in the
process making quickness impossible. Worse still, when you do finally
manage to get away you end up somewhere like Livermore or Los Banos.
On the up side, I'm nearly always at least 200 miles away from Mountain View
and indeed the entire San Jose metropolitan nightmare and very near the nice
looking mountains to the east that Tian praised earlier.
Chiggy.
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| Re: An odd problem... [message #35632 ] |
Fr, 13 Mai 2005 23:26 |
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On Fri, 13 May 2005 09:16:28 -0700, Tian Harter
<DontBeFuelish [at] aol.com43897547> wrote:
<snip>
>I live in Mountain View. Do you guys have a Mountain View?
>
>Truthfully, Mountain View got its name from somebody that thought
>they could sell land here to easterners with a picturesque name.
>I gotta tell you, the mountains you can view from here are nothing
>compared to the ones you can see 150 miles to the east of here.
I've been to the Mountain View where you live - Meth used to live
there.
I was surprised at the "Mountains" that are viewable from Mountain
View. They look kinda like the hills from where my wife harks from,
but instead of being about 4 miles away, they're something like 40 and
therefore much bigger. They just kinda slope up.. then round off..
then slope down again.
Meth now lives in New Zealand. So I went to see him there earlier this
year. On the South Island they have the "Southern Alps" which are all
snow-covered peaks. Look a lot like the 'proper' Alps at the
France/Italy/Switzerland/Austria (et al) conjunction. Until you get
close to them and you see that they're much, much less "Alpy" close
up. Driving up the 'proper' Alps you'd spend most of a day going
zig-zag-zig-zag (etc) up hairpin after hairpin. On NZ's South Island
it's sorta up'n'over in a straight line.
Apparently one of the biggest mountains on this planet is entirely
underwater and made of sand! I heard about it on a radio program about
mountains some months ago - some river "approximately" in the vicinity
of India (I say "approximately" because I'm useless at Geography) has
been washing out sandy deposits for so long that it's created a big
sand-mountain under the sea.
Lloyd
Educating afda on mountains since 2005.
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appears to be missing" -- Svlad Cjelli
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| Re: An odd problem... [message #35641 ] |
Sa, 14 Mai 2005 01:13 |
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John Coxon wrote:
> On 13/05/2005 17:16, five wild Event Maelstroms swirled in vicious
> storms of unreason and Tian Harter spewed up:
>
>> I live in Mountain View. Do you guys have a Mountain View?
>
>
> Don't think we do, actually.
>
Thanks! :-) I feel more American already...
--
Tian
Saturday I walked a huge precinct in Oakland for Aimee
Allison with three other people. Maybe we got her a couple
of dozen votes she wouldn't have otherwise landed. Many
times we told people "your vote could make the difference."
http://tian.greens.org
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| Re: An odd problem... [message #35642 ] |
Sa, 14 Mai 2005 01:15 |
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Chiggy wrote:
> "Tian Harter" <DontBeFuelish [at] aol.com43897547> wrote in message
> news:d62k0o$9ri$1 [at] domitilla.aioe.org...
>
>>I live in Mountain View. Do you guys have a Mountain View?
>>
>
>
> Nicest thing about Mountain View is all the freeways it has for driving away
> from it very quickly. Sadly, most of the time they're clogged with people
> trying to drive away from Mountain View as quickly as possible and in the
> process making quickness impossible. Worse still, when you do finally
> manage to get away you end up somewhere like Livermore or Los Banos.
>
> On the up side, I'm nearly always at least 200 miles away from Mountain View
> and indeed the entire San Jose metropolitan nightmare and very near the nice
> looking mountains to the east that Tian praised earlier.
>
>
Lucky you. Are you down in the winter fog, or up the hill from that?
--
Tian
Saturday I walked a huge precinct in Oakland for Aimee
Allison with three other people. Maybe we got her a couple
of dozen votes she wouldn't have otherwise landed. Many
times we told people "your vote could make the difference."
http://tian.greens.org
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| Re: An odd problem... [message #35644 ] |
Sa, 14 Mai 2005 02:21 |
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"Tian Harter" <DontBeFuelish [at] aol.com43897547> wrote in message
news:d63cip$dgj$3 [at] domitilla.aioe.org...
> Chiggy wrote:
>> "Tian Harter" <DontBeFuelish [at] aol.com43897547> wrote in message
>> news:d62k0o$9ri$1 [at] domitilla.aioe.org...
>>
>>>I live in Mountain View. Do you guys have a Mountain View?
>>>
>>
>>
>> Nicest thing about Mountain View is all the freeways it has for driving
>> away from it very quickly. Sadly, most of the time they're clogged with
>> people trying to drive away from Mountain View as quickly as possible and
>> in the process making quickness impossible. Worse still, when you do
>> finally manage to get away you end up somewhere like Livermore or Los
>> Banos.
>>
>> On the up side, I'm nearly always at least 200 miles away from Mountain
>> View and indeed the entire San Jose metropolitan nightmare and very near
>> the nice looking mountains to the east that Tian praised earlier.
>>
>>
> Lucky you. Are you down in the winter fog, or up the hill from that?
>
In the fog, which we had quite a lot of this year, what with all the rain.
Chiggy.
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| Re: An odd problem... [message #35698 ] |
Sa, 14 Mai 2005 23:03 |
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Fat Sam <janetandsam [at] beeteeinternet.co.uk> wrote:
> I've just did a quick Multimap search of the north east coast of
> America, and found the following list of places which are named after
> places in the UK....
>
> Washington
Oh, I've always thought Washington was named after George Washington.
Staso
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Schizophrenic? I'm bleeding quadrophenic.
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| Re: An odd problem... [message #35701 ] |
Sa, 14 Mai 2005 23:31 |
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Michael Starosta wrote:
> Fat Sam <janetandsam [at] beeteeinternet.co.uk> wrote:
>
>
>>I've just did a quick Multimap search of the north east coast of
>>America, and found the following list of places which are named after
>>places in the UK....
>>
>>Washington
>
>
> Oh, I've always thought Washington was named after George Washington.
>
> Staso
The original Washington
http://tinyurl.com/dkhz4
Which gave it's name to
http://tinyurl.com/au5o3
and
http://tinyurl.com/7rylg
and
http://tinyurl.com/d43um
and
http://tinyurl.com/aqhc7
and
http://tinyurl.com/df2xa
and
http://tinyurl.com/8jj5l
and
http://tinyurl.com/abuun
and
http://tinyurl.com/btwwx
and of course, the famous one
http://tinyurl.com/7unxc
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