Busse Words and their Definitions

Also, there was a one time online HOG induction, and those of us that were lucky enough to participate, are not jealous at all of those that got to do it at Blade, and feel any sus scrofa inferiority at all. :).
 
Does INFI/Bacon/Hog moniker have anything to do with Infidel? Is it just a conincidence?

I mean there are military overruns abound, and citing the Global War on Terror...

I remember the original Rodent Solution advertising picture from the Swamp being framed against an “Infidel” morale patch. I know they’re SR-101, but the mind wanders...
 
Infidel is a play on INFI the signature Busse steel, but I wouldn't read any geopolitics in to it.
 
nydude said:
Also, there was a one time online HOG induction, and those of us that were lucky enough to participate, are not jealous at all of those that got to do it at Blade, and feel any sus scrofa inferiority at all. :).
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That would be this:

Jerry Busse said:
. . . Well, I suppose that anything is possible!!!

As we prepare for the intro of the ASH 1 we find ourselves struggling to define the term HOG. . .

Being an inducted HOG will definitely have its benefits. . ..

Could it be that merely having an affection and small collection of Busse Blades makes you a HOG? :confused:

Could it be that everyone who owns at least one Busse Combat blade has a little bit of HOG in him or her? :confused:

Should we set parameters on the number or value of someone's collection in order to reach Hogdom? :confused:

Should there be several different levels of Hogdom such as "Piglet", "Oinker", "Alpha Boar", and "Old Guard HOG"???. . . .:confused:

Can I ever be drunk enough to figure this out on my own?

Oink at me Hogs. . . . tell me what you think!

I should be good and hammered by tomorrow night when I finally come to a decision. . . .

Let's drink! :thumbup:

Jerry:D

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Careful with the "Sharpened by BEEF" knives- I've put on a bunch of band aids cause of that dude - not his fault, quite the opposite, he done good, it's more a matter of acclimation.
I changed my wallpaper on my work comp to that great photo of "Bacon Smores" I mean, who doesn't love bacon! Had BLT's last night in fact :D
 
Now I’m trying to work out how I can add bacon to the dinner I’ve been tasked to make tonight. Id have to run to the store for a slab.
 
Not to Hijack, I have a question that I never wanted to start a thread to ask:

How do you pronounce Busse? Is it "Bus-E" or "Boo-See" or something else?
 
JohnTheTexican said:
A long time ago, someone commented that Busse's customers were like hogs at a trough. Or something like that. The "hog" thing stuck, and other pig/pork references followed.
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Still is if you attend a Blade Show. They did not toss cards into the crowd last year. When they did it was very much like slopping the hogs.That may be a thing of the past.:(
 
nydude said:
I don't know guy's, hear that Gary Busse makes some pretty awesome knives. We should check that out.
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Not so much,Gary makes them out a oatmeal and grits alloy. Doesn't harden very well.
 
I will now tell you the unvarnished truth.

Gerry P. Busse's first career was as a butcher. Through hard work and perseverance he opened his own shop.
He quickly became tired of the constant re-sharpening and breakage of the common brands of knives available on the market, threw one down one day and said, "Shoot, I can make one better than that!" So he started indeed doing this on the side. His resulting SICMOBTT knife suited his needs so well that he started offering them for sale. However, sales were sluggish for several reasons: the knives lasted so well that there was very few repeat sales to the limited butcher market; customers started calling the knives SICK MO... with various suffixes , some not so savory; the FBI decided that SICMOBTT might be an acronym for some sort of subversive ideology.

He decided a different direction was in order. He had discovered that various types of meats required slightly different slicing characteristics, so he introduced his pork, beef, fish, and chicken models. It quickly became apparent that most butchers didn't have the touch to appreciate the subtle differences and that most preferred his pork models for all applications. He discontinued the others except for the Beef knives which filled a sizable niche market. This model was eventually discontinued as well, but by then he had found it necessary to take on staff and in a fit of nostalgia he began referring to one of these employees as Beef and it stuck. (Being a country music fan, he also nicknamed another employee Garth. We don't know what his real name is.) Also by then he had completely transitioned from butchering to the more lucrative knife business and, thinking it had a slightly more macho ring to it more fitting for a knifemaker, started calling himself Jerry. He also made a General Purpose Butcher, marked GPB. Butchers found it to be too thick, but the general public really took to them.

He got tired of calling his largest customer base "Pork Processing Knife Users" and just started calling them "Hogs." This worked pretty well so he started giving the Hogs various pork-related nicknames that some came to value greatly, while others had a nagging suspicion that they were somehow being insulted.

Finally, to dispose of the fish and chicken models, he instructed the staff to throw them in a large contractor's cleanup garbage bag. Garth hung up such a bag in a suitable location and labeled it "knife garb. bag." One day while walking through the shop pondering how he could avoid just tossing out the chicken and fish models he glanced at the knife garb. bag, had an inspiration and the rest is history.

The GANZA part is a story too sordid to tell. You never should participate in those.
 
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