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

WhittlinAway said:
I don't think we have a bugs and blades thread, so I'll post this here. This is the largest dragon fly (?) I've ever seen:

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If we have any entomologists here on the porch, I'd love to know what it is.
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Fascinating photo, Greg! :cool:
We DON'T have a bugs-and-blades thread, but maybe we should. I can at least vaguely remember r8shell having 2 or 3 shots with insects/arachnids, and Gevonovich often hires multi-legged creatures as props in his photos; that's just folks from Ausin TX so far! :rolleyes::D

- GT
 
Randy,
glad to hear you're sorting things out. I know my share about dealing with surgeons (from a different standpoint though :rolleyes:). Best wishes from (currently) Bruxelles :) this morning I stumbled into an incredibly nice knife store (although I'm not actually after any new purchase, it was worth a look ;))

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Fausto
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Hope you are ok Randy mate.

Fausto my friend. How great it is to see you posting again. Welcome back.

I would ha gone mental in that shop. Did they have much in the way of older knives?
 
looks like it might be time to chuck another Redback on the barby- I'd be in that knife shop like a rat up a drainpipe.
I saw a Channel Billed Cuckoo today.Amazing bird -it flies down from New Guinea to he south Coast of NSW and starts squawing very loud first thing in the morning. Its mating habits include a lot of flying around the neighbourhood squawking at a ridiculous volume to ensure that AAiiivrybody knows it is here . It then lays its eggs in the nest of the Australian magpie or the Pied Currawong-both large crow like corvines. The eggs hatch much quicker than those of the surrogate parents. The magpie eggs and young are killed,eaten or turfed out by the insanely oversized chicks of the CBC which are greater in size to the adult Currawong which now has to work overtime to feed its new chick. After doing this the fledged Cuckoos fly off back to New Guinea some 1700 miles away.
The first time I saw one I was reminded of the alarm bird at the start of the Flintstones- not only in appearance but that annoying noise.
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Funny the victim birds can't recognize their own eggs and chicks, I've always thought.
Though that currawong looks suitably dismayed.

By the way, Meako, which Dr Who would you have been watching after your heroism at the rafting pit?
 
Not sure if this is an okay place to post this. Just wanted to share and I know it's not 100% inline with the actual traditional forum.

I might have been all of eleven when we walked into the sporting goods shop. It was a huge place, wall to wall guns, along with a varied amount of fishing and reloading supplies. I didn't know it at the time, but I would be getting my first high power rifle and a new moniker. We walked up the stairs to the second floor that housed the firearms and began perusing the selection. I didn't pay much attention to the goings on of my grandfather and my dad, I was with my brother and we kept ourselves busy looking at the mass of "toys". My dad called my name and my grandfather motioned for me to come over. The choice was mine.

My first high power was a Remington model 7 in 243. From that time I've never taken a deer without a Remington. My grandfather nicknamed me "Remington Man" and it stuck. He always laughed as he said it and he would just shake his head. As I grew up he helped me find a new Remington, a model 700 to replace the smallish carbine model 7. It's been with me ever since, it was with me the season he got into a car accident and missed the hunt, it was with me when I got my first doe, it's killed my biggest buck and my smallest, it was with me the year my grandfather passed on. Having him be apart of that rifle means something to me and it's almost as if he doesn't miss the season.

So, I find it rather fitting that my first ever Remington knife is a Granddaddy Barlow. A single blade like he always liked and Remington made like I've always chose for my guns! I'm not sure how old this one is, but it wouldn't surprise me if it surpassed us both in age. It's got some great sawcut bone scales and a beautiful stamped bolster.

My grandfather, myself, my brother.


Thanks for letting me share. Any idea how old this one might be?

 
johnny twoshoes said:
So, I find it rather fitting that my first ever Remington knife is a Granddaddy Barlow. A single blade like he always liked and Remington made like I've always chose for my guns! I'm not sure how old this one is, but it wouldn't surprise me if it surpassed us both in age. It's got some great sawcut bone scales and a beautiful stamped bolster.
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.I think this was the right place to post .
 
scrteened porch said:
Funny the victim birds can't recognize their own eggs and chicks, I've always thought.
Though that currawong looks suitably dismayed.

By the way, Meako, which Dr Who would you have been watching after your heroism at the rafting pit?
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I believe it has something to do with enzymes in the birds stomach-specifically evolved to fool the other bird- and yes that Currawong does look a bit like me in the morning trying to get my youngest son out of bed and into school mode. These are not birds that you mess with either-The magpies at this time of year are very territorial and will dive bomb anything that comes in coo ee of their nest. A friend of mine cycled to work past a notorious magpie . Cyclists will stick cable ties to their helmets like porcupine spikes to deter the divebomber. It didn't work so he glued scalpel blades to his cable ties -the bird kept hitting him and when he got to work and removed his helmet he found a feathery chunk of magpie flesh impaled on one of the spikes. Insane.

Would have been early Tom Baker-perhaps The Talons of Weng Chiang- remember when you had to wait til next week to see what happens next?
 
That would be Leela as travelling companion. With knife content. If you google-image Louise Jameson, you still find her flashing thighs and blades.
John Pertwee was the first Dr I was aware of (the only two-armed being to master Venusian Aikido), and at first I thought Tom Baker wasn't venerable enough, but now I think he's still the man to beat.
 
For me its always been a toss up between Leela and the first Romana (Mary Tamm) the Time Lady.:D
If you haven't already done so -check out Tom Baker as Capt RedBeard Rum in Blackadder
[video]https://youtu.be/_EfW9znJYjw[/video]
 
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