April Fools Prank I Played, Thought You Might Enjoy

[oregonknifenerd]

I think we all got it. We aren't stupid. What we don't get, or me anyway, is where the "prank" part is..now you are even calling it a joke.. It's not funny.. It's marginally clever at best... I guess I'm just a jerk with a different sense of humor.. And I think John Cleese walking around funny or a guy pounding a dead parrot on a counter is hilarious *shrug*

Exactly Apec! I guess you win bragging rights for this one. The idea behind the original joke was to test some of my friends to see if they could catch that this failure could never occur. They didn't get it so I figured I would post it up here and make a little game out of seeing who here got it first.

 

[EBHM4]

I think we all got it. We aren't stupid. What we don't get, or me anyway, is where the "prank" part is..now you are even calling it a joke.. It's not funny.. It's marginally clever at best... I guess I'm just a jerk with a different sense of humor.. And I think John Cleese walking around funny or a guy pounding a dead parrot on a counter is hilarious *shrug*

Alright well I guess the misunderstanding comes in that I kind of considered it an April Fools joke to get my friends who are marginally knowledgeable about knives going on this one. Maybe I'm easily amused, but seeing them feel like idiots when they realized they'd missed an obvious fault in their logic was a bit funny to me, especially because a few of them legitimately almost felt bad for me because they knew how much I loved the knife so if it was actually broken it would have been a big deal. I guess the term "prank" or even "joke" is faulty, as more than anything it was a challenge of knowledge so I accept responsibility for that and making in fact several mis-steps here.

Then the point in posting it here as I've stated was to see who would answer first why it couldn't happen. I expected it would be the first person to reply that it was impossible because of the lockbar stabilizer. I don't know, I guess I thought it would be a fun little challenge for some of the forumites. If you didn't enjoy it then I guess all I can do is apologize and say that John Cleese is in fact hilarious in general.

 

[oregonknifenerd]

Yeah, who am I to judge. I'm a guy with nothing better to do than be on here all the time! Although I am hearing a lot of "shut up I'm trying to listen to this" in the background and a dog pushing his toy at me (every few minutes I throw it and shout to him) as I'm browsing... So I suppose I've got stuff to do but choose not to

 

[EBHM4]

Yeah, who am I to judge. I'm a guy with nothing better to do than be on here all the time! Although I am hearing a lot of "shut up I'm trying to listen to this" in the background and a dog pushing his toy at me (every few minutes I throw it and shout to him) as I'm browsing... So I suppose I've got stuff to do but choose not to

Wait... there's better stuff to do than drool over knives!? Why was I not aware of this!?

 

[nore]

Gotta side with Oregon on that one.. Not every prank hits home I guess

But on a related note, glad your 561 is in good working order and I am definitely going to snag one in the near future!