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

Jolipapa said:
Hope this is related in good place in US newspapers, today for the firsttime a Great American Lady will be admitted in the Panthéon, the République's Hall of Fame.
Joséphine Baker was born in St Louis, became a dancer and singer and at 19 landed in Paris where she became a huge star (along her leopard). She married and acquired French nationality and bought the Mirandes castle in Dordogne (which she renamed Milandes because she could not pronounce it! 😉) that was to become an important place for the Résistance during WWII (and later a home for the 12 children from allover the world she had adopted).
Being menaced in her life she left for Morocco where she kept spying for Free France during her musical tours and joined the Free Air Force (sha was a pilot) in Algiers. She ended the war as Second Lieutenant.
Afterwar she resumed her career singing but too many debts forced her to sell the Milandes and was then hosted by another great American lady, Grace Kelly, who had married Prince Rainier of Monaco.
To people of my generation she was a true hero and after a petition was signed by the thousands, it was decided to admit her in the Panthéon today.
She sang many hits but the most famous will remain this one : J'ai deux amours - Two loves (my Country and Paris) !
In her funerary urn three handfuls of dust from St Louis, Paris and the Milandes.
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I knew she was a great and glittering entertainer; I didn't know about the heroism. Thanks for filling us in. She's a great addition to anybody's pantheon.
 
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screened porch said:
I knew she was a great and glittering entertainer; I didn't know about the heroism. Thanks for filling us in. She's a great addition to anybody's pantheon.
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Oh yes, she did not wait the last day to become a resistant! I remember when I was 10/12, reading her problems with money in the people newspapers in which they used to wrap vegetables at the market! Many celebrities helped her (Brigite Bardot, Mrs deGaulle and lots of unknows) but unfortunately the well was bottomless... She was a true Grande Dame and Grande Âme! A Great Lady and a Great Soul! 👍
 
I took six of this picture, and they're all good.
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JohnDF said:
My little town of Loomis, California, for years and years has had a Day Before Thanksgiving Day Parade.
It's your typical small town parade with floats, cars, Santa and of course the marching band. Lots of small town fun.
Nice chilly morning and we enjoyed hot chocolate and coffee while we watched all the fun stuff pass by on the main street.

Thought I'd share a few of the pictures i took...








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Looks like a pretty good sized town...got a street with a left turn lane :D
 
huntnfishin said:
Thanks anything pinchable is what I’m after. Appreciate you checking for me.

That’s hilarious but I am not looking for knives in public planters…

Soft pull and pinchable is what I’m after, and I appreciate the offer John your so generous but I got some $ in the old PayPal acct and some neat trade stock if you find something.
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The Case single blade copperhead is pinchable with a pull I find easy, but I don't have arthritic hands.
 
btb01 said:
5K Qs 5K Qs I’m sure you knew already, but today is your kind of date, both a palindrome and ambigram! 😁

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VERY cool, Barrett! :cool::thumbsup::cool: I did NOT realize that about Thursday's date; thanks for pointing it out. Coincidentally, my wife mentioned at supper yesterday that her next birthday will be on the palindromic 2/2/22 (she's still occasionally excited to recall that a couple of years ago her birthday had the date 02/02/2020), which should probably have inspired me to discover yesterday's numerical charm!:rolleyes:;)

I also did not know what an "ambigram" was (although I do know the term "aglet" that you brought up in the Guardians thread 🤓). I suppose it's more accurate to say that I didn't know the word. I've actually been enchanted by the concept since I was 9 years old (most of 1961) when I noticed that the dates on coins worked right-side up and upside down. And I'm familiar with Scott Kim's "inversions".

Anyway, your post was a cool way to start my day! 😁

- GT
 
5K Qs said:
VERY cool, Barrett! :cool::thumbsup::cool: I did NOT realize that about Thursday's date; thanks for pointing it out. Coincidentally, my wife mentioned at supper yesterday that her next birthday will be on the palindromic 2/2/22 (she's still occasionally excited to recall that a couple of years ago her birthday had the date 02/02/2020), which should probably have inspired me to discover yesterday's numerical charm!:rolleyes:;)

I also did not know what an "ambigram" was (although I do know the term "aglet" that you brought up in the Guardians thread 🤓). I suppose it's more accurate to say that I didn't know the word. I've actually been enchanted by the concept since I was 9 years old (most of 1961) when I noticed that the dates on coins worked right-side up and upside down. And I'm familiar with Scott Kim's "inversions".

Anyway, your post was a cool way to start my day! 😁

- GT
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A few weeks back, you were the first thing I thought of when I saw that date would be coming up! Not that you're a Thing of course! :D ;) 👍
 
Peregrin said:
I saw that on the news. That was a candle factory, I believe. What a terrible tragedy. A huge path of destruction.
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I was just reading some more. Killed people in five states. Mayfield got plastered. It was extremely windy here and the lightning was almost constant and all around. Heart goes out to all those in the hard hit places.
 
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