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

r redden said:
I spoke to Bob ( BigBiscuit ) yesterday he had his back surgery last week but is still in the hospital due to complications. He said he was starting to feel better and has been up and walking a little. Hopefully he will get to go home before long.
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ah was wondering when he was gonna get that. last we spoke he did mention it was due to happen soon. the sooner he is up and moving the better
 
BigBiscuit said:
Back home this afternoon. Good to be home after nearly two weeks in the hospital. I've got a lot of recovery and PT work to do. Hopefully I'll be able to stand and walk again for more than a minute or two and more than 20-30 feet.
Thanks for the well wishes.
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good to see that you are out of there!
 
Cambertree said:
Thanks for the comments on those Sheffield pics

A few remarks on the actual photo contexts (in no particular order):
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I'm also reminded of reading how the Red Army on the Eastern Front in WW2 apparently came to favour female sniper teams, producing famous soldiers like Lyudmilla Pavlichenko, who had a Woody Guthrie song penned in her honour, and became friends with Eleanor Roosevelt on a PR tour of the US, who gave her a custom, scoped Winchester Model 70 rifle, chambered in 30-06.
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Chin, thanks for the fascinating recent posts! :thumbsup::thumbsup: I thoroughly enjoyed the Sheffield photos and subsequent remarks. :cool: And the information on Russian female snipers was a complete revelation to me; somehow, I'd never heard of this! :eek::thumbsup:

r redden said:
Thanks Gary my deductible is more than the total value of all the items stolen.
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I was afraid of that, Randy; car insurance gets prohibitively expensive without substantial deductibles. :(

r redden said:
I spoke to Bob ( BigBiscuit ) yesterday he had his back surgery last week but is still in the hospital due to complications. He said he was starting to feel better and has been up and walking a little. Hopefully he will get to go home before long.
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Thanks for the update, Randy. :thumbsup:

BigBiscuit said:
Back home this afternoon. Good to be home after nearly two weeks in the hospital. I've got a lot of recovery and PT work to do. Hopefully I'll be able to stand and walk again for more than a minute or two and more than 20-30 feet.
Thanks for the well wishes.
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Double thanks for the update "straight from the Biscuit's mouth", Bob! :thumbsup::):thumbsup: Great to see you back here, and praying that your recovery will be successful and you're back on your feet ASAP! :thumbsup::D

- GT
 
Sitting at an Airport Bob - So glad you are home and I am WAY overdue in ringing you my friend. I will be seeing Paul very soon so will mention this.
Keep up the fight Bob.
 
5K Qs said:
Chin, thanks for the fascinating recent posts! :thumbsup::thumbsup: I thoroughly enjoyed the Sheffield photos and subsequent remarks. :cool: And the information on Russian female snipers was a complete revelation to me; somehow, I'd never heard of this! :eek::thumbsup:
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Thanks Gary, I'm glad you enjoyed reading them.:):thumbsup:

Jolipapa said:
There were at the beginning three women air regiments of 400 each created by Marina Raskova :
- 586th IAP Fighter Regiment , Yakovlev Yak-1, then Yak-9 and Yak-3 (the same machines as given to the French pilots of the Normandie-Niemen squadron). Lilya Litvyak was known as the Stalingrad's Rose. It took 8 Messerschmidt to shoot her down.
- 587th BAP Bomber Regiment on Suhkoï Su-2, then Peltyakov Pe-2.
- 588th NBAP Night Bomber Regiment, Commander Nadejda Popova (she died in 2013); on obsolete Polikarpov U2 (the Night Witches).
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The knife is an old celluloïd canif, maker unknown, made in Thiers. The MOP imitation is very realistic.
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Thanks for the further info, JP - very interesting.:thumbsup:

I found this more recent photo of 'Night Witch', Commander Nadezhda Popova:

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She has a fascinating, 'lived-in' face.

Apparently, her record was 18 sorties in one night, her total wartime missions in the 588th Night Bomber Regiment totaled 852.

JP, please excuse my ignorance, but is canif, a broad term for any small pocket knife, or does it indicate something more specific?

I looked up a French Wikipedia page, and it seemed to indicate the former, but regrettably, my French comprehension needs improvement.:(
 
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Cambertree said:
JP, please excuse my ignorance, but is canif, a broad term for any small pocket knife, or does it indicate something more specific?



I looked up a French Wikipedia page, and it seemed to indicate the former, but regrettably, my French comprehension needs improvement.:(
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I am fascinated by fighting women, not only Russians, their achievements should have got them a better place in history...
This is Mariya Dolina in front of her Pe2
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Canif is a generic word for all pocket knives, usually small, one bladed, but SAKs are referred to as such as well. Some time ago Jeremy asked if the origin was the same as "knife" and it seems the answer is yes.
https://www.bladeforums.com/threads...l-pocket-knives.1009593/page-11#post-16208008
 
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Bob, Duncan is here and mentioned your recent surgery. Belated well wishes my friend and my apologies for not keeping in touch for far to long:)
 
Good to hear you landed safe, Duncan Campbellclanman Campbellclanman .

Just quoting this great post of Jolipapa's again, if anyone else was interested in the answer to the earlier question.

Jolipapa said:
This is the 1000$ question!
I seems it derives from the Franks old francique word knif who probably derives from old Normans knifr (todays Swedish is knif). From what I understood, canif and knife have probably the same ancestor, knifr, but no direct link between them.

It appears in a book in the middle of the XIIth century, so 2 centuries before the 100 years war.

Most of time, a canif is a small folding knife, navette shaped (the SAK is often called canif) and under 3". So imho none of the knives you pictured would be called canif today. (but a baby butterbean would!) :confused:

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This gave me the idea to check in an old dictionary. here what I found (book dates 1889) : little knike with very sharp blade(s), used to sharpen pens.

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I wonder whether the Norse knifr, filtered into Old English as cnif, from the old areas of the Danelaw? And in France, whether this proto Germanic word may have come with the Norse who settled what is now Normandy?

Apparently the 'kn' sound was always fully voiced in Old and Middle English up until sometime in the 1600s.
 
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