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

Henry Beige said:
All this talk of Peugeot has stirred up some memories for me. My first encounter was a high-school buddy’s 404. I had some affluent schoolmates, and got to drive a lot of pretty nice cars, way above my pay grade. I spent a lot of time behind the wheel of tha 404, likely because I was the only one who could still drive at all after a night on the town. It was hard to remember that the stalk on the left was for the headlights, not the turn signals.

A couple years later, I was in the Bay Area, spending a couple of weeks with my father’s old J-school buddy, who gave me free reign of his 403 to explore the back roads of the East Bay and the Delta levees. Felt just like Columbo, I did.

In the eighties, I became enchanted with the cushy seats and plush long-travel suspension of a 504 sedan, which held the road far better than the Volvos I had been driving. After the sedan, I went through a couple of wagons before the supply of Peugeots in Minnesota eventually petered out. There were never that many to begin with, and the thin body work did not fare well on the salty winter roads.
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Best moment was at the gas station when the guy was looking for the gas trap! :D
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I 've heard Cadillac used the same trick for a while.
 
Prester John said:
r redden r redden , my first car was a '73 Vega, similar to the one pictured, although the first car I drove was a navy blue 1972 Chevy station wagon (my father's).
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The picture I posted was a stock photo and not my actual car howbeit the twin except for Cragar Mags and Sonic raised white letter tires you had to have those no matter how hard you had to work. Problem was between school and a fulltime job to support the car habit wasn't much time for socializing. That was probably a good thing most likely kept me out of a lot of trouble.

An old Cragar ad from I guess 1970
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JTB_5 said:
Not sure where else to inquire, but has anyone heard from or about Nick Birdvis? He used to do knife mods and scales for Lionsteel ck01 knives before branching off on his own custom knife making. I followed him on Instagram but haven’t noticed any posts from him in awhile. I just searched for his account and it is gone. I thought someone here might have had contact with him in more recent past than I have.
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So here's a funny story to tell on myself (at least, I thought it amusing). I posted the above message a little over a week ago and I even ended up sending Nick Birdvis an email, just to see if he was still making knives. No response. Then yesterday while looking on Instagram I saw one of our fellow BladeForums men, Logan, mentioning Nick in a picture of a knife he had modified by Nick. In the comments he linked to Nick's instagram account. I clicked it and the page still showed up as either "broken" or "removed" (Instagram's language). I mentioned that to Logan, but he said the link worked for him, and that Nick must have blocked me from his account.

I had to laugh because all this time I'm thinking something has happened to the guy, when in fact he's just cut me off from his social media. I'm glad he's fine and I'm puzzled at why he'd block me, but I think the strangest thing (to me anyway) is how Instagram shielded me from knowing I had been blocked. I'm not questioning the policy (maybe they have great reasons), but it was an odd, humorous, and very modern technological experience of being shunned.
 
JTB_5 said:
So here's a funny story to tell on myself (at least, I thought it amusing). I posted the above message a little over a week ago and I even ended up sending Nick Birdvis an email, just to see if he was still making knives. No response. Then yesterday while looking on Instagram I saw one of our fellow BladeForums men, Logan, mentioning Nick in a picture of a knife he had modified by Nick. In the comments he linked to Nick's instagram account. I clicked it and the page still showed up as either "broken" or "removed" (Instagram's language). I mentioned that to Logan, but he said the link worked for him, and that Nick must have blocked me from his account.

I had to laugh because all this time I'm thinking something has happened to the guy, when in fact he's just cut me off from his social media. I'm glad he's fine and I'm puzzled at why he'd block me, but I think the strangest thing (to me anyway) is how Instagram shielded me from knowing I had been blocked. I'm not questioning the policy (maybe they have great reasons), but it was an odd, humorous, and very modern technological experience of being shunned.
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I prefer being shunned in person, I'm old fashioned that way. Lol
 
JohnDF said:
I prefer being shunned in person, I'm old fashioned that way. Lol
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Me too! I don't like conflict, though I don't shy from it when I think it is necessary (or in a moment of careless haste), so I'm usually looking for ways to make peace. I'd rather have the chance to work out differences, which is usually easier in person. At the same time, I wouldn't know as many folks or share as much common interest were it not for social media like this forum and instagram.
 
DelOro said:
“I fear the day that technology will surpass our human interaction. The world will have a generation of idiots.”

- Albert Einstein
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Einstein actually said that? Wow... that is remarkable. Our engineers that we hire out of college are incapable of human interaction... the two that I supervise sit 8 feet away from me and ask me questions via Skype (instant message) :confused:
 
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