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

Jack Black said:
Yeah, when I was a child, you would often see people taking brass rubbings (and stone floor/grave) rubbings in old churches. Some even provided paper. It was also something we'd do on school trips. I wondered why it had fallen out of fashion! :eek:
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We've done that in cemeteries, especially to try to bring up details on old eroded limestone headstones.

meako said:
No joke intended and pardon my ignorance...but I always thought it was the pickup line...'hey Baby.. want to come up and check out my etchings/brass rubbings?'....
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Does that line actually work? Too bad I'm too old to try it.

- GT
 
5K Qs said:
Does that line actually work? Too bad I'm too old to try it.
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Maybe it depends on the quality of the etchings :rolleyes:

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screened porch said:
You might be old enough to be forgiven for it.
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Forgiving a "dirty old man" seemed common in the 1960s, but I don't think it's acceptable in current Western society.

Jack Black said:
Maybe it depends on the quality of the etchings :rolleyes:

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Did you create that extemporaneously, Jack? You should frame it! It has abstract simplicity, yet gritty authenticity (and a cool knife).

- GT
 
Peregrin said:
Just a crummy smartphone pic, but still interesting. My wife told me to look out over the backyard last night. She was wondering what the object was to the right of the moon. I've got this cool app, SkyView, that I use to identify objects in the sky. Turns out that bright object was Jupiter. Pretty cool!
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That reminds me there are some rather spectacular illustrations of what it would look like if other celestial bodies were at the same distance to us as the moon. Saturn for example

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baxtrom said:
That reminds me there are some rather spectacular illustrations of what it would look like if other celestial bodies were at the same distance to us as the moon. Saturn for example

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That's pretty cool! I just took this one, using that SkyView app. If I could see through my home to the other side of the planet, I'd see Saturn, I guess? :D Of course it would be much, much smaller!
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baxtrom said:
If anyone is interested, this is a great clip illustrating the truly breathtaking scale of our universe. It is well worth its 7 minutes.
Star size comparison
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Ha, I make a forum account to talk about knives as an escape from space work and the first thing I see is everyone talking about space! Those scale comparisons are really cool, I think they've shown that one or similar in the planetarium near here for kids before
 
Peregrin said:
That's pretty cool! I just took this one, using that SkyView app. If I could see through my home to the other side of the planet, I'd see Saturn, I guess? :D Of course it would be much, much smaller!
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Thank you! I down loaded the app and it is amazing! Sent a link to my two kids and they love it too! 😀
 
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