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

Humppa said:
I tried to handle that in case of knives with an 8 months old... he seems to be like a vacuum cleaner and eating everything, even knives :eek:
(They don´t taste too well, believe me.)
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LOL! Yes, they reckon small children are a major cause of mobile phone malfunction! :D
 
A great find Jack. Most interesting. I would like to see those pennies sometime. Remind me to give you my book on magic tricks.
 
I'll bring them over ADEE, though I suspect you may be a tougher audience than my granddaughter! :D I'm sure those coins have impressed a few people over the years, I wish I knew who'd owned them. Those George V pennies were unusual enough even when I was a boy.

What we need to do is find a collector of old magic paraphenalia who'll trade pocket knives for them! :D :thumbup:
 
Later date hollow coins were used for microfilm and microdots. The International Spy Museum in DC has some really unusual devices used by various clandestine agencies.
 
JB in SC said:
Later date hollow coins were used for microfilm and microdots. The International Spy Museum in DC has some really unusual devices used by various clandestine agencies.
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Yes, there are some interesting designs. You can actually buy them quite cheaply on the internet :)

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Jack, this forum, and especially your posts, cost me waaaay too much money. I'm buying one of these!
 
Do they pressure fit closed or screw on? Very interesting find Jack! I was pretty obsessed with spy gear as a small child. May have to find one as well.
 
glassjaw said:
Do they pressure fit closed or screw on? Very interesting find Jack! I was pretty obsessed with spy gear as a small child. May have to find one as well.
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The spy ones I think screw together. The magician's coin shells either pressure-fit or use a magnet :thumbup:
 
Cool coins Jack, got me to do a bit of Google'ing. Found some references to some coins needing a small pin to open them, and some magician coins requiring a "knock ring" to open them. Clandestine uses would include using the coins to "dead drop" info, like into a newspaper vending box or other vending machine, or carrying poison for suicide if a spy were compromised. Of course, I read it on the internets, so it must be true :rolleyes::cool::D
 
sitflyer said:
Cool coins Jack, got me to do a bit of Google'ing. Found some references to some coins needing a small pin to open them, and some magician coins requiring a "knock ring" to open them. Clandestine uses would include using the coins to "dead drop" info, like into a newspaper vending box or other vending machine, or carrying poison for suicide if a spy were compromised. Of course, I read it on the internets, so it must be true :rolleyes::cool::D
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:D :thumbup:
 
Drinking Lamp? theres two.....
the sun and the moon.
Cheers Frank Sr (same birthday as me. hope I make it that long):D
 
speaking of pennies-I had one that belonged to my Grandfather which I believe was George 4th. It had been used as a mini anvil and bore a massive dink right across the face. It had GEORGIUS IV REX and Brittania on the other side.
Can't for the life of me find it or remember where its stashed.:grumpy:
 
meako said:
speaking of pennies-I had one that belonged to my Grandfather which I believe was George 4th. It had been used as a mini anvil and bore a massive dink right across the face. It had GEORGIUS IV REX and Brittania on the other side.
Can't for the life of me find it or remember where its stashed.:grumpy:
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Sounds like a cartwheel penny Meako?
 
I was just researching something online, and came across this little snippet:

On a summer's day in 1800, King George III was taking the sea airs on the south coast near Brighton. When one of his party announced that they would soon be leaving for Sheffield the King's face fell and he is reputed to have bellowed:

"Sheffield? Damn'd bad place, Sheffield!"
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Made me laugh no end! :D
 
Jack -just in case you haven't seen it[video=youtube;tX9CpfW1-RQ]http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=tX9CpfW1-RQ[/video]
educational and humorous-my kids love this and so do I.
Quality British TV.
I'd certainly do a cartwheel if I could find it.
 
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meako said:
Jack -just in case you haven't seen it[video=youtube;tX9CpfW1-RQ]http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=tX9CpfW1-RQ[/video]
educational and humorous-my kids love this and so do I.
Quality British TV.
I'd certainly do a cartwheel if I could find it.
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The year was 1795. Prince George of Wales gave his fiancé, Princess Caroline of Brunswick, her first connubial kiss.

Prinny exclaimed, “I am unwell! Bring me a glass of brandy!” Their wedding night contained their first and last sexual act.

After her husband became George IV, the Queen was charged with adultery. That’s when some wag wrote:

Most gracious Queen, we thee implore,
To go away and sin no more;
Or, if the effort be too great,
To go away at any rate.
 
Years ago, like 35-40 years ago, my sister made me some ditty bags to be used while camping and such. I have one left. One has survived all these years and all its travails traveling the world with me carrying my DMT sharpening stone and an old Arkansas Hard hone. She also gave me a duffle bag she sewed from a Frost Line kit. I still have that duffle and use it too, and it too has traveled the world, most recently to and throughout Israel and back with my son. A gift need not be fancy nor expensive. It need be thoughtful. And thoughtful gifts from the hands and from the heart of the giver are the gifts that keep on giving.

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Here's a photo of her from about that time in all her glory. She's a cool sister. All 4'11" of her.
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meako said:
Jack -just in case you haven't seen it
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Thanks pal, my internet connection is terrible today and it won't play. I'll try to watch it later, I might even take my Ipad up to the pub! :D
 
Well if you're going to all that trouble and expense:rolleyes: you'll have to watch the music vids they do of the Vikings and also Dick Turpin( a very accurate satire of adam and the ants as well factual info about the rascal highwayman )
chers.
 
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