"Carl's Lounge" (Off-Topic Discussion, Traditional Knife "Tales & Vignettes")

Prester John said:
Yeah, working on that! Very energetic 10-month old Yellow Lab/Blue Heeler (she should be green!) puppy. She jumped on the couch where I was sitting with my chihuahua and surprised us! (My wife had just let her in the house).
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Should be green.. That's funny right there.
Queensland Heelers are super smart. Hopefully it will bring up the average of the other half :D
 
Come on Wover boy
Wet's go hunting.
....2 go out...
...but only one comes back.
 
Hi everyone, can anyone open and read any of the first page of jackknife's tales? I went to re-read some today and get an error only on the first page, i can open the newer ones, but the one i want to read is older. I think i remember some kind of glitch or something with the format changeover, maybe not.
 
seas165 said:
Hi everyone, can anyone open and read any of the first page of jackknife's tales? I went to re-read some today and get an error only on the first page, i can open the newer ones, but the one i want to read is older. I think i remember some kind of glitch or something with the format changeover, maybe not.
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I see broken links, too. It’s tedious, but you may be able to find them by title. Type the title in the search box, select “search titles only”, put jackknife in the “Posted by member” box, make sure “search this forum only” is checked and then cross your fingers...
 
seas165 said:
Hi everyone, can anyone open and read any of the first page of jackknife's tales? I went to re-read some today and get an error only on the first page, i can open the newer ones, but the one i want to read is older. I think i remember some kind of glitch or something with the format changeover, maybe not.
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I have been able to read most of them by typing in the title one at a time. But there are some that I cannot retrieve.
 
waverave said:
I hit 1000 posts today...this one makes 1001. Not bad for 4 months :thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup: Might be cause for a GAW.
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Congrats on the posting milestone, Darren! :thumbsup::cool::cool::thumbsup:
Hard for me to believe that you've only been on The Porch for 4 months! :eek:;)
Let's see, at the rate you're going, you'll have about 3K posts per year. This week @Jack Black hit 30K posts and I think that took him almost 13 years. You're on pace to hit 30k in 10 years!! :cool::thumbsup::D
Thanks for all your fine contributions, Darren! Your GEC database you started as a stats class project is phenomenal. Your photoshop thread is very entertaining (and as close to custom folders as I plan to come ;)). You've had a couple of very creative and interesting GAWs already, too IIRC. :thumbsup::cool::thumbsup::cool:

Greg was right in pointing out your palindromic achievement, too! :thumbsup:;) Palindromes are very interesting. I like 1991 and 2002 quarters; not many people in history have the privilege of living during TWO palindromic years in their lifetimes. (@btb01 pointed out to me that some 2002 quarters have Indiana as the state on the back, with an engraving of a RACECAR - get it?? Makes the hair on my arms stand up! :rolleyes:) I think if I ever buy a GEC knife, it will have to have a special release date (like my birthday or anniversary) or a special tang stamp, like a palindrome (if the Bull Nose from 2017 had a clip blade instead of a drop point it would have been 711117 - how cool is that?) or a special date (my birthday is December 19, and I expect there may be quite a number of 2-blade GECs with clip main made next year that will have a stamp xx1219 - be still my beating heart!!)

Anyway, keep posting, Darren!

- GT
 
5K Qs said:
Congrats on the posting milestone, Darren! :thumbsup::cool::cool::thumbsup:
Hard for me to believe that you've only been on The Porch for 4 months! :eek:;)
Let's see, at the rate you're going, you'll have about 3K posts per year. This week @Jack Black hit 30K posts and I think that took him almost 13 years. You're on pace to hit 30k in 10 years!! :cool::thumbsup::D
Thanks for all your fine contributions, Darren! Your GEC database you started as a stats class project is phenomenal. Your photoshop thread is very entertaining (and as close to custom folders as I plan to come ;)). You've had a couple of very creative and interesting GAWs already, too IIRC. :thumbsup::cool::thumbsup::cool:

Greg was right in pointing out your palindromic achievement, too! :thumbsup:;) Palindromes are very interesting. I like 1991 and 2002 quarters; not many people in history have the privilege of living during TWO palindromic years in their lifetimes. (@btb01 pointed out to me that some 2002 quarters have Indiana as the state on the back, with an engraving of a RACECAR - get it?? Makes the hair on my arms stand up! :rolleyes:) I think if I ever buy a GEC knife, it will have to have a special release date (like my birthday or anniversary) or a special tang stamp, like a palindrome (if the Bull Nose from 2017 had a clip blade instead of a drop point it would have been 711117 - how cool is that?) or a special date (my birthday is December 19, and I expect there may be quite a number of 2-blade GECs with clip main made next year that will have a stamp xx1219 - be still my beating heart!!)

Anyway, keep posting, Darren!

- GT
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Wow thanks for the kind words my friend :) I may never catch up to @Jack Black but I will definitely have a lot of fun trying :thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup:

I think those are great ideas for a special knife and you are right...you may have some opportunities next year for that birthday tang stamp!
 
GT, I think if we all step back and look at our involvement here, we'll realize that we're all a little quirky. Your love for academia, numerically and linguistically, I think, perfectly exemplifies our collective quirkiness. If we were a sports team, you would be the "Glue Guy". Not necessarily the most prominent in post count or other hard-line stats, but your "immeasurables" set you at the top of the heap. I always love seeing your avatar pop up, and I know I'm not alone. Thank you.

To switch, a bit, I think I revisited the aforementioned thought in a bit of an existential moment when I realized I was sitting here in my southeast Louisiana home having a late-night snack of hot pickled okra and a cocktail (which, cocktail culture in our country owes a lot to New Orleans' history) while watching the Pelicans play the Bulls, I realized I may be a bit stereotypical.

I then realized that if this is a stereotype, I embrace it, and I started thinking about stereotypes that can be formed about our little corner. Tang stamp analysis on vintage knives, quibbles over which type of jigging falls into which category, shield placements, construction materials, faults vs handmade inconsistencies, etc can all lead to outsiders near and far drawing their own conclusions. I embrace it all. Let me be a historian, a nerd, a person that accepts "sloppy build quality" instead of precision machined everything. I love our little world and the magnificent people and stereotypes that create it.
 
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