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

[Just Tom.]

OK, blade, file, screwdriver, scissors..how’s a lady supposed to pick her teeth?

With her Buck 110, duh.

(Though it does have the tweezers and toothpick too according to the listing)

 

[Prester John]

OK, blade, file, screwdriver, scissors..how’s a lady supposed to pick her teeth?

And no mirror?

 

[GmpaJim]

With her Buck 110, duh.

(Though it does have the tweezers and toothpick too according to the listing)

I missed that!!
Birthday present for my bride!!

 

[Just Tom.]

I missed that!!

To be fair, I see no evidence of either in the pictures:

I guess my point is that I thought it was funny that there are many who extol the virtues of the Classic SD, but Mikov is outright calling their version a “Ladies knife”.

I suppose if your joke needs explaining, it wasn’t very good

 

[Jack Black]

And no mirror?

That's the MISS Army Knife Vince!

One of the funniest tales I ever heard here was told by Pete Stich. He was driving along in his grandfather's car, granddad at the wheel, and Pete got out his Peanut to do something. His grandpa sniped, "That your girlfriend's knife?" Always makes me laugh to think of it

 

[Prester John]

That's the MISS Army Knife Vince!

One of the funniest tales I ever heard here was told by Pete Stich. He was driving along in his grandfather's car, granddad at the wheel, and Pete got out his Peanut to do something. His grandpa sniped, "That your girlfriend's knife?" Always makes me laugh to think of it

Ha! Pete oughtta carry one of these:

Or a lambsfoot, of course! Or a Buck 110.

 

[meako]

I don't know GT!! Everything I've learned is from kicking vending machines!!!

You are The Fonz.
A chocolate vending machine was stupidly placed in City Of Sydney fire station when I was stationef there as a young lad....It was the push button code and your treat delivered off a rotating spiral and dropped below into a trough with a flap ...theft proof .Before long a couple of the wags had devised a method of rorting it with two craftily bent coathangers ....it was a shortlived scheme...the next person who paid for a treat would see the spiral move forward one place but without the snickers bar to drop ....the machine was removed.

 

[screened porch]

You are The Fonz.
A chocolate vending machine was stupidly placed in City Of Sydney fire station when I was stationef there as a young lad....It was the push button code and your treat delivered off a rotating spiral and dropped below into a trough with a flap ...theft proof .Before long a couple of the wags had devised a method of rorting it with two craftily bent coathangers ....it was a shortlived scheme...the next person who paid for a treat would see the spiral move forward one place but without the snickers bar to drop ....the machine was removed.

I guess we can't have anything nice!

 

[GmpaJim]

Back in the day, (8 - 9 ish) Coke machines had a catch container under the cap opener.
They had a contest. Peel the cork back on the cap, to reveal (hopefully) a red or black coke emblem. One got you a six pack..one got a case!
We would fish for caps with a magnet in that container. We did well.

We never tried this, but old pay phones had an open hole as a change return. If you stuffed aluminum foil up in the change return slot, it would dam up the return and appear as a faulty return. That’s why they invented that pull coin return thingy.

 

[Prester John]

Back in the day, (8 - 9 ish) Coke machines had a catch container under the cap opener.
They had a contest. Peel the cork back on the cap, to reveal (hopefully) a red or black coke emblem. One got you a six pack..one got a case!
We would fish for caps with a magnet in that container. We did well.

We never tried this, but old pay phones had an open hole as a change return. If you stuffed aluminum foil up in the change return slot, it would dam up the return and appear as a faulty return. That’s why they invented that pull coin return thingy.

With the old pay phones, when a phone call was a dime, you could drop a nickel in and while it was dropping hit the coin return button sharply with the heel of your hand, and you got a phone call for half-price. Had to time it just right.
Not that I ever did that....

 

[Jack Black]

I remember waiting for a bus back to Sheffield, with a pal, in Victoria Coach Station, London, in 1978 or '79. There was an old-fashioned chocolate machine on the wall, into which you had to put a coin, before you could pull out one of the drawers to get a chocolate bar. We discovered it was broken though, and that the drawers would pull out without inserting a coin. We gave all the chocolate away to children waiting in the bus station!

 

[GmpaJim]

I remember waiting for a bus back to Sheffield, with a pal, in Victoria Coach Station, London, in 1978 or '79. There was an old-fashioned chocolate machine on the wall, into which you had to put a coin, before you could pull out one of the drawers to get a chocolate bar. We discovered it was broken though, and that the drawers would pull out without inserting a coin. We gave all the chocolate away to children waiting in the bus station!

Are you sure that bus wasn’t going to Sherwood….Robin?

 

[Prester John]

Are you sure that bus wasn’t going to Sherwood….Robin?

Wonder how Jack looks in Lincoln Green....

 

[Jack Black]

Are you sure that bus wasn’t going to Sherwood….Robin?

It would have definitely made a stop at Nottingham!

 

[meako]

Yoiks and Awaaay!

 

[JM2]

Free candy bars.... not just a child’s dream.

 

[meako]

https://gfycat.com/improbablegrizzledelephantseal

 

[Will Power]

Seems the Devil finds work for idle (minds) This Prof is chairing a health quango - wheeled out gushingly by the media as an 'expert' therefore to be obeyed unreflectingly

No pleasures are safe it seems, cake eating is akin to passive smoking.

What they don't say is that this dried up stick/Prof is actually fashioning a new career in music by forming a cutting edge band ' Joyless Division'

People should not take cake into the office, suggests food watchdog chief

Food Standards Agency chairwoman likened culture to passive smoking, and said offices should be a ‘supportive environment’

www.theguardian.com

 

[GmpaJim]

Seems the Devil finds work for idle (minds) This Prof is chairing a health quango - wheeled out gushingly by the media as an 'expert' therefore to be obeyed unreflectingly

No pleasures are safe it seems, cake eating is akin to passive smoking.

What they don't say is that this dried up stick/Prof is actually fashioning a new career in music by forming a cutting edge band ' Joyless Division'

People should not take cake into the office, suggests food watchdog chief

Food Standards Agency chairwoman likened culture to passive smoking, and said offices should be a ‘supportive environment’

www.theguardian.com

It seems, whatever you have, there’s a group who is anti to it.
If there isn’t, one will be organized by lunch.

 

[JB in LV]

A vendor from Louisiana reached out the other day to let me know they are sending a care package in the mail. Most welcome, as they usually include cool seasonings and king cakes.