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

Very cool, Jack. Thanks!

Jack Black said:
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The Sheffield Wednesday Supporters Club lapel-badge would have been given to me as a boy by one of my uncles, it will date from the 1950’s or early 1960’s.
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I was going to ask about this one regardless (any guesses why? heh), but your answer prompts more questions.

What does the badge designate?
1) Supporters of Sheffield, Wednesdays only
2) Sheffielders in support of Wednesday, Ho!
3) Sheffielders who sport "Wednesday Supporters," a particularly unfortunate brand of, er, hosiery
4) Underground Germanic Mercury Movement, based in Sheffield
5) Adherents of the Sheffield Wednesdays, a popular boy band mining coalition "group"?

....?

Or something simpler having to do with wool and ale. I wonder.

Wait, is "football" involved?

-- Did you ever find your Passport?

~ P.
 
Thanks P, I thought that one might catch your eye! :)

"Football" indeed! :D Sheffield Wednesday, one of England's oldest soccer clubs, named for the day of the week when they originally played. Wednesday traditionally being half-closing day in Sheffield, and the team including a number of shopkeepers. Nicknamed The Owls from the Owlerton stadium where they originally played. Blue just to make it complete! ;)

I did find my passport thanks :thumbup:

Jack
 
Newbish said:
My peanut is coming soon! Can anybody post their fancy "pocket candy" to tide me over?:p
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I think I've burnt out the 3 traditionals I have by posting too many pics as it is. I'm in the same boat as you though, I have a peanut on the way. Maybe if I start taking pictures of it, the patina will be changing.
 
Does anyone else, upon seeing Woodrow F Call in this forum, remember a quote from the book or movie?

The one that always comes to mind from ol' Cap'n is

"I'd like to see the herd you and Jake could come up with."

I'll leave the latter part of the quote to your imagination ;).

Remember, this IS a family friendly forum :D.
 
Gus: Well the first man comes along that can read Latin is welcome to rob us, far as I'm concerned. I'd like a chance to shoot at a educated man once in my life.

Always loved that one. :)

Will
 
I should have included that the quote I referenced was from Cap'n Call. That is one of my favorites from Gus.

Another of my favorites, one of my father's most used lines, again from Cap'n Call, is "You'd argue with a possum."
 
Newbish said:
My peanut is coming soon! Can anybody post their fancy "pocket candy" to tide me over?:p
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not exactly fancy but this may help;
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The RR imitation tortoise shell is no joke, all of the specimens I've seen/handled looked every bit as attractive as the more expensive Boker Tree Brands. It's cool, funky stuff.
 
Yeah tortoise shell is my favorite material (my glasses are made out of it) but i was referring to the turquoise,my favorite gemstone
 
"What do you want legs for anyway? You don't like to do nothing but sit on the porch and drink whiskey!"

silenthunterstudios said:
Does anyone else, upon seeing Woodrow F Call in this forum, remember a quote from the book or movie?

The one that always comes to mind from ol' Cap'n is

"I'd like to see the herd you and Jake could come up with."

I'll leave the latter part of the quote to your imagination ;).

Remember, this IS a family friendly forum :D.
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jackknife said:
I love the quotes from Lonesome Dove. Has to be the second best western ever made.

Carl.
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What was the first?

Such a tough choice for me. Magnificent Seven, the Wild Bunch, Good the Bad and the Ugly, Big Jake, Tombstone. I grew up on John Wayne and Clint Eastwood movies, gotta be either Big Jake or Good Bad and the Ugly for me.

thawk, Tommy Lee Jones nailed that scene, great scene in the movie.
 
silenthunterstudios said:
What was the first?

Such a tough choice for me. Magnificent Seven, the Wild Bunch, Good the Bad and the Ugly, Big Jake, Tombstone. I grew up on John Wayne and Clint Eastwood movies, gotta be either Big Jake or Good Bad and the Ugly for me.

thawk, Tommy Lee Jones nailed that scene, great scene in the movie.
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While I love Lonesome Dove, great acting, great actors, good writing, I think I'm just a tad more partial to The Magnificent Seven. Old Japanese story and movie by a great Japanese director, and everyone who was cool in the 60's. McQueen was the king of cool with Coburn a close second. And it had the same guy who many years later, was Po Campo in Lonesome Dove. Mexican actor Jorge Martinez de Hoyos. He was also in Lee Marvin's The Professionals. Just for yuks one rainy day, I got The Seven Samurai and The magnificent Seven back to back. It was an interesting study of two different directors styles, and culture differences as well as similarity. Kurosawa had a darker noir kind of style to his work.


Carl.
 
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Which one was the Toshiro Mifune movie that Fistful of Dollars or For a Few Dollars More was based on? Sergio Leone did a crappy job remaking those, but Toshiro Mifune's movie was really good.

Yojimbo! Directed by Kurosawa and a hundred times better than Fistful of Dollars. And it had one gun in it to boot!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yojimbo_(film)
 
silenthunterstudios said:
Which one was the Toshiro Mifune movie that Fistful of Dollars or For a Few Dollars More was based on? Sergio Leone did a crappy job remaking those, but Toshiro Mifune's movie was really good.

Yojimbo! Directed by Kurosawa and a hundred times better than Fistful of Dollars. And it had one gun in it to boot!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yojimbo_(film)
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I'm not really sure just why Leone was held in such high esteem, bercause when it came to westernizing a Japanese film, he didn't do half the job that John Sturges did with his remake of the Seven Samurai. And forget any comparison to Kurosawa, Leone is not in the ball park. Especially when it came tot Kurosawa's mastery of black and white and use of shadows to impart mood. If films were food, Leone's stuff would be a fast lunch someplace with a hot dog and fries, or a burger and fries. Good to fill up up and go on your way for the afternoon. Kurosawa films would be a nice place with real cloth table cloth, a proper menu, and good table waiting staff. Maybe even a wine list. Food would be cooked to order.

Carl.
 
Leone did a good job with The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. The other two Man with no Name films were pretty bad, I wouldn't sully the good name of a burger and fries ;)...
 
Ah, there's one of my all time favorites: The Professionals. Cannot even begin to tell you how much I enjoyed watching Marvin and Lancaster play off of each other in that film. Have to think Robert Duvall watched old Burt and incorporated some of his devil may care attitude into the character of Gus.

Far as best western though? Have to toss Rio Bravo into the mix as well. Dean Martin has to be my favorite singer of all time and he got the chance to unlimber his vocal cords in a wonderful way in that movie. One that doesn't get mentioned enough is Conagher. Maybe because it was a made for TV movie. Probably the best film of a Lamour book ever made.

Will
 
The Wild Bunch is certainly my favorite, but in addition to the many fine ones already mentioned, I have to add One-Eyed Jacks and Shane.

I think John Wayne's two best westerns are The Searchers and The Shootist, and Clint Eastwood's best is The Outlaw Josey Wales.
 
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