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

I did a thread on it some years ago Christian, but all the pics are long gone I'm afraid

https://www.bladeforums.com/threads/knives-of-the-royal-armouries-pic-heavy.1026152/

It's hard taking pics in there though, everything is behind glass, with spotlights bouncing off the glass

Here are a couple of trade hawks you might like, from around 1800.

 

Hey guys!

I just wanted to say Hello to all of you guys and gals... a long long time... still a knife knut... hoping to be able to come back more often than recently.

 

Hey Andi, nice of you to drop in How big is Max now?

 

Max is turning five years on Tuesday... almost a real small man. A wonderful boy - the best of all. (I think everyone thinks the same about his own children)

 

Fantastic Andi, that has gone quick Hope he has a very Happy Birthday

 

Jolipapa, Great battle scene picture and information, I wonder if any horses stepped or fell through the ice?
Peregrin, Beautiful picture of the redheaded woodpeckers, but it looks more like an artist drawing than a photograph???
black mamba, Fantastic shots of the bald eagles, I have many around my area as well.
Jack, Wonderful museum pictures, and the ivory handled Kukri is amazing.

 

Thank you my friend, it's hard to take photos through the glass. I thought you might like to see this Shakespeare Knife

 

Hey @Humppa Andi.
Good to hear from you Mate.

 

Like it? Can you steal it for me?

 

They attacked by night, every hussar had an infantryman behind as pillion and horseshoes were silenced, so they did not rush like for a usual cavalry charge.

 

Horseshoe slippers, very clever.

 

I haven't heard Carlos' name in a very long time.

 

I hear you on the cars Will. I've always loathed work of all types but cars and engines especially...i had a traumatic experience on the Snowy Mtn Highway (in winter of course) around 1987.. Good old GMH 1973HQ sedan .I was honking along just on dark when a rock hurled itself into my fan and took out the radiator ,fan ,fanbelt and water pump. I got towed to the nearest town Cooma by the road service guy who put me up iin his family home for the night. The next day I spent at the garage -ordered the parts which came in the afternoon from Sydney!! fixed everything .....except for the rear axle bearing which he had disconnected in order to tow it as it was automatic. It got me where i was going and home again but died soon after-think of the blues bros car in Daly Plaza.
That was when you could get your hands in the engine and do work ...now I go to the mechanic.
Now I can only think of one of those GEC bail and chain jobbies for your key chain....buut if Im brutally honest...I think you are wanting a modern ?

Once again the internet proves spurious.
This painting is not from the 1875 Zuiderzee as stated.
Although it is a very clever forgery.. my research tells me this is a work by Porchenbergs own painter Hertz Van Rental.
It was painted in 2013 depicting the The 1st Porchenberg Dragoons seizing a fleet of mail ships laden with 2013 BF trad knives which had become stuck in the ice off Porchy Bay while the Admiral spent too much time checking over the polls and trying to appease the mob. The tell tale giveaway can be seen in the two figures playing a game of ice slidy in the centre foreground.Van rental is perhaps best known for this type of inclusion in his paintings which include silly beards,huge droopy moustaches,swords impaling people and idiotic seeing eye glasses with googly eyes. Of course his greatest works come from his "dracula teeth" period most of which have been burnt because of their extreme silliness.

 

Funny how my misconstruction of R8shell's jive turkey comment brought back the 1970s to me.
I think I'll have to read them again. There were a couple I read and forgot because I didn't want to believe them.
I also have to organize my books. I can't find my Magical Passes, even though it's a Mary Baker Eddy blue binding and should be easy to spot.

 

I was an anthropology graduate student when his books were published. I always felt like I was one step removed from his life. Sometimes I wonder.

 

The mention of Castenada brings to mind the Simpsons episode where they have a hot chili cook off at the fair. Obviously homer ingests all of them including Neds firehouse chilli and Chief Wiggums insanely hot chilli
until he enters a Don Juan hallucination with pyramids and a talking fox.
I also recently rewatched Altered
States.The only part I really like is when William Hurt is hallucinating so much he morphs into a primitive apeman and goes scampering round town. The rest is a bit too wordy with those two professors arguing and shouting at each other while Hurt recovers from another mind expanding experience.

 

@meako Thanks mate, one thing about the advent of sat and mobile phones is a safety thing. The Aus Outback and other wildernesses are not to be undertaken rashly when in a car. Even here which is very sparsely populated,the snow in winter can provide hazards if the car breaks down so having a way of communicating is vital. However, some of the safety potential of phones does get compromised by human factor imbecility The other day some bearded hipster in his own unique bubble, earphones on and scrolling avidly, just stepped out in front of me in the car park area. Fortunately I was going slowly and alert...but this obsession with connectivity bothers me

About the knife, the GEC bog chain 15 is too big, would get wrecked with keys etc. So I suppose it is a modern, the Chive is OK nicely put together and not too big, but that flipper opener concerns me...A Ken Onion CRKT I have is a brilliant Modern, thin blade too which slices well, excellently made and light but it has no safety and I don't dare carry it in the pocket-or bag- as I fear it can open just like that...The Chive has this speed safe lock but looks none too confident Saw an Al Mar keychain knife in Micarta but 125 USD??? uh uh!

 

Meako, I unmasked you! You're the Referee in Chief for the next World Championship and I suspect you speak Japanese fluently!

 

And after all that, I recall the message of the movie as being "all you need is love".