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

@scrteened porch I can still get a 40" belt around my ankle.
Congrats Vince you no longer look like a Q-tip and you look great my friend. As for me my daughter just cut my hair and caught me by surprise in this picture and I'm still an ugly old fat man. :eek::eek:

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r redden said:
@scrteened porch I can still get a 40" belt around my ankle.
Congrats Vince you no longer look like a Q-tip and you look great my friend. As for me my daughter just cut my hair and caught me by surprise in this picture and I'm still an ugly old fat man. :eek::eek:

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Hey, Randy, good to see you, my friend!
You know, I took out the Buck lockback you gave me to touch up the edge. Don't think I needed to! Going to tote it with other knives tomorrow.
Hope you have a wonderful Sunday and Mother's Day.
 
I got an appointment to see my hair cutter on Monday, but I’ll have to sneak in her back door because she’s supposed to be shut down.

In other news, whil idling around in bored and sequestered isolation last week, I shaved off my mustache for the first time ever and saw my upper lip, something I hadn’t done since 1968. The few friends I have encountered since then have not noticed, or at least refrained from commenting.
 
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I shaved off my mustache for the first time ever and saw my upper lip, something I hadn’t done since 1968. The few friends I have encountered since then have not noticed, or at least refrained from commenting.[/QUOTE]
Amazing that no-one is saying anything!! I've had a full beard since 1968, and I have promised my children, born in the early 70s and early 80s, that they could be in the room if I ever shaved!! They've never seen my chin, except in my military ID picture, and my old college yearbook!!:D
 
Well, I didn't get to see my mother today because we're not allowed to visit at the assisted living home she is at, but I spoke to her, and she is doing fine under the circumstances. But I was able to spend the day with another mother--the mother of my six children.

I waited an hour and a half at a fish market to get some fresh red snapper. I live in a fishing, boating, and surfing town, but I ain't no fisherman. So I buy my fish.
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I baked the red snapper fillets and served it with confit byaldi (minus the eggplant because the store was out).
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I used my Laguiole to cut the zuchinni, yellow squash, and Roma tomatoes. Served with Aussie Chardonnay. And my daughter made a German chocolate pie:
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It's been a good Mother's Day, all in all.
 
Prester John said:
Well, I didn't get to see my mother today because we're not allowed to visit at the assisted living home she is at, but I spoke to her, and she is doing fine under the circumstances. But I was able to spend the day with another mother--the mother of my six children.

I waited an hour and a half at a fish market to get some fresh red snapper. I live in a fishing, boating, and surfing town, but I ain't no fisherman. So I buy my fish.
YxUKIRn.jpg

I baked the red snapper fillets and served it with confit byaldi (minus the eggplant because the store was out).
7idy8dK.jpg

I used my Laguiole to cut the zuchinni, yellow squash, and Roma tomatoes. Served with Aussie Chardonnay. And my daughter made a German chocolate pie:
wEqMeEg.jpg

MTEeWgn.jpg

It's been a good Mother's Day, all in all.
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The only thing that could have made it a better day for you Vince would have been for you to have actually visited your Mom face to face and get a big hug from her.:):thumbsup:
 
r redden r redden Randy...Mate...your are selling yourself short...I wont hear of it ...ugly old fatman indeed!!. Sir you are with doubt an ugly old incredibly talented guitar pickin fat man my friend...:thumbsup::thumbsup::p:D

Did someone say German Chocolate Pie? Never heard of it.... just a couple of smallish slices if GCP for me Thanks....
 
r redden said:
@scrteened porch I can still get a 40" belt around my ankle.
Congrats Vince you no longer look like a Q-tip and you look great my friend. As for me my daughter just cut my hair and caught me by surprise in this picture and I'm still an ugly old fat man. :eek::eek:

OYLOHqi.jpg
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You're posh in your lounge wear! Always pleased to have good news from you! :)
 
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Prester John said:
Well, I didn't get to see my mother today because we're not allowed to visit at the assisted living home she is at, but I spoke to her, and she is doing fine under the circumstances. But I was able to spend the day with another mother--the mother of my six children.

I waited an hour and a half at a fish market to get some fresh red snapper. I live in a fishing, boating, and surfing town, but I ain't no fisherman. So I buy my fish.
YxUKIRn.jpg

I baked the red snapper fillets and served it with confit byaldi (minus the eggplant because the store was out).
7idy8dK.jpg

I used my Laguiole to cut the zuchinni, yellow squash, and Roma tomatoes. Served with Aussie Chardonnay. And my daughter made a German chocolate pie:
wEqMeEg.jpg

MTEeWgn.jpg

It's been a good Mother's Day, all in all.
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I know what a snapper is, a hot sea water fish, "vivaneau" in french, but i can't figure what a "Aussie Chardonnay" can be. There is no Chardonnay outside of France. It can't be!

Dan.
 
dantzk8 said:
I know what a snapper is, a hot sea water fish, "vivaneau" in french, but i can't figure what a "Aussie Chardonnay" can be. There is no Chardonnay outside of France. It can't be!

Dan.
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Chardonnay is the grape variety Dan, there's no Chablis outside France ;) :thumbsup:
 
Jack Black said:
Chardonnay is the grape variety Dan, there's no Chablis outside France ;) :thumbsup:
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Chablis is the name of a small town near Tonnerre in Bourgogne where vines grow from which a wine named "Chablis" is made. "Chardonnay" is indeed a grape which grows up in many countries, including Australia (!), but let's be serious, taste a "Montrachet" or a "Cote de Beaune" and we will talk. Like saying " French trappist beer"!
And before you ask, yes, i'm famous for my bad faith.

Dan.
 
Not expert either, i don't like wine! But things have to be tidy, particularly with the Aussies, or one of those days Meako will tell us: " Porsche is the Rolls-Royce of the cars!"

Dan.
 
dantzk8 said:
Chablis is the name of a small town near Tonnerre in Bourgogne where vines grow from which a wine named "Chablis" is made. "Chardonnay" is indeed a grape which grows up in many countries, including Australia (!), but let's be serious, taste a "Montrachet" or a "Cote de Beaune" and we will talk. Like saying " French trappist beer"!
And before you ask, yes, i'm famous for my bad faith.

Dan.
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New World Chardonnays have been so successful that some French wine producers are now displaying the grape name prominently (and using the term 'Shiraz' instead of Syrah). France has always produced some superb wines, and some French producers had the good sense to invest in New World vineyards, and import their talent. Penfold's Grange, for example, I think can stand up to competition from around the world, America has long produced some superb wines, and New Zealand produces some world-beating Sauvignon Blancs. I'm afraid you're a few decades out of date Dan :D As for French Trappist Beer, you mean like Monts des Cats? ;)
 
Jack Black said:
I'm afraid you're a few decades out of date Dan :D As for French Trappist Beer, you mean like Monts des Cats? ;)
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I'm afraid it's more than few decades. Monts des Cats? Don't know. The only beers i drink are belgian. I don't like wine, i don't like cheese, i don't like soccer. I'm a Breton living at the belgo-french border. There's no worse ! I can see you are an expert, forgive my joke. In my defense, it's pretty rare to talk with someone who is expert in two fields as sharp as wine and cutlery. I couldn't figure.

Dan.
 
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