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

JohnDF said:
This was probably the best weekend of football we've seen in a while.
All very close games and evenly matched teams... It was exciting to watch.
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You got it, John. Bill's vs Chiefs, 25 points in the last 2 minutes of the game. If that didn't have folks on the edge of their seats, nothing will.
 
Peregrin said:
Bill's vs Chiefs, 25 points in the last 2 minutes of the game. If that didn't have folks on the edge of their seats, nothing will.
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It was so much fun to watch... I was yelling as much as I do watching my Hawks.
First wanting one team to score, then wanting the other team to come back, and then wanting another lead change... and they were doing it all... amazing!
 
Mister Coffee said:
@5K Qs I was smoking Hav-a-Tampa around 1970. Believe me, they were cheap. In quality. A good cigar, like a good knife, his worth going to the trouble.
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I'm a guy who has more Rough Rider knives than any other brand, and my cars have been a Corolla, an Eagle Summit, an Isuzu pickup, a Caravan, a Civic, and a Focus, so I'm apparently not a big believer in "you get what you pay for". 🤓

- GT
 
5K Qs said:
and a Focus, so I'm apparently not a big believer in "you get what you pay for".
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We had a 2010 Focus sedan. Great trouble-free car!! In 2014 we gave it to my recently married youngest son, who used it for 3 years, and gave it to his mother-in-law, who still uses it every day!! It was a good year for the Focus, and it still is!!
 
waynorth said:
We had a 2010 Focus sedan. Great trouble-free car!! In 2014 we gave it to my recently married youngest son, who used it for 3 years, and gave it to his mother-in-law, who still uses it every day!! It was a good year for the Focus, and it still is!!
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U.S. market Focus or EU market Focus (or UK market Focus)? Just wondering.
 
waynorth said:
We had a 2010 Focus sedan. Great trouble-free car!! In 2014 we gave it to my recently married youngest son, who used it for 3 years, and gave it to his mother-in-law, who still uses it every day!! It was a good year for the Focus, and it still is!!
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Charlie, my Focus was a 2007 sedan (black with a little "wing" on the trunk) that I bought in 2010 with 30K miles on it. Mine was also relatively trouble-free, and I sold mine to my daughter for a dollar in August 2020. She's still driving it (although I think she'd like to get something newer). I haven't really had "a car of my own" since she got my Focus. My wife and I seem to be doing fine with just my wife's 2005 Civic. (I should put a SAK in the glove box, though.)

- GT
 
I love my copperheads, but I was thinking, if I had a Case stockman I didn't care about, and I do, I could replace the copperhead pen with the stockman sheepfoot.
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But oh, I wouldn't have a short curved edge anymore, so if I added the stockman spay or put back the copperhead pen, what a brilliant idea! Why did nobody ever think of it?
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I guess I'm still a stockman guy.
 
Things have recently become more difficult around here. Don't ya just love computers? ;)
Makes me a bit wary of what AI might become. Sorry, I gotta get outta here... see ya!

edit; seems things are back to normal, still a bit concerned of what AI may become 😟
 
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5K Qs said:
Charlie, my Focus was a 2007 sedan (black with a little "wing" on the trunk) that I bought in 2010 with 30K miles on it. Mine was also relatively trouble-free, and I sold mine to my daughter for a dollar in August 2020. She's still driving it (although I think she'd like to get something newer). I haven't really had "a car of my own" since she got my Focus. My wife and I seem to be doing fine with just my wife's 2005 Civic. (I should put a SAK in the glove box, though.)

- GT
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When I got my first teaching position in 91 I bought a new car. I owned it for a few years and then sold it and bought a 1988 pickup. When our son was born in 03 I sold the pickup and bought a 98 Suburban. I’m still driving that Suburban today. 😉👍
 
A few years prior to my FIL's passing. I asked him how many cars he had owned up to that point in time.
Without any hesitation he said,"Three hundred and fifty seven." (He owned a few more after that.)
When asked which was his favorite, once again with no hesitation he said," Thirty-four, three-window Ford coupe." :thumbsup:
One of the specialty cars he built was particularly cool, a 4 wheel drive Subaru motor and chassis with a Triumph TR6 body. :cool: If you are a car guy, you'd really like his home made tow-trucks which he used frequently.
Gene was two things if nothing else; 1) a brilliant man and 2) a car guy
He is really missed.
 
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When I was in my late teens, I had a Triumph Tiger, and my mate had a BSA A10. Eventually, my pal sold the A10 for £250, and bought a Toyota Corolla for £200. He had the car for years, and we all said what good value it was. Twenty years down the road, I reminded him about it, and he claimed the Corolla was the most expensive car he'd ever bought! :eek: 🤣
 
My garage proudly displays a metallic poster I purchased at a British bike rally which says, "I'd rather be pushing my Brit bike than riding your American hog!" No offense to anyone, it's just that a certain style of riding causes me to appreciate a certain style bike. :)
 
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