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

Modoc ED said:
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Just checking to see if Imgur was still working for me.

Winter and snow will be here soon - Woo Hoo !!!!!!!
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Great to see you! :)

I owe you (and so many others :confused:) a note.

I had once again had great fun showing off the Three Amigos and some delectable Case red bone in Titusville last month. o_O

~ P.
 
As I posted in the other thread:
The only rule of which I am aware about posting names, is not to use them to insult the poster.

If I know somebody's name (and if I can remember it, which seems to be the larger problem these days) I use it.

That being said, the first thing I did when I was asked to be a moderator was to add my first name to my signature line.

But then I'm an engineer. Grumpy old engineers are not particularly well known for their political correctness.

I'm not going to give an infraction if somebody addresses another member by their name.
 
Jack Black said:
"Oh, Lily Jane, he's in the pub." Seems the canal community is pretty anonymous too, and people tend to refer to each other by the names of their boats. Nick wasn't too happy about it, and swore he was going to rename his tiny Victorian Upper River Cruiser 'Turbo Thrust' or something! :D
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Was it Erroll Flynn who said it's bad luck to rename a boat, and had a bad experience to back it up?
I remember his mother almost killed him by refusing to let his father cut a tree down on Flynn's new island, so when he arrived there the first time flying on fumes, he almost ran into the tree in the middle of the airstrip where it right-angled.
 
scrteened porch said:
Was it Erroll Flynn who said it's bad luck to rename a boat, and had a bad experience to back it up?
I remember his mother almost killed him by refusing to let his father cut a tree down on Flynn's new island, so when he arrived there the first time flying on fumes, he almost ran into the tree in the middle of the airstrip where it right-angled.
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Old Errol "flew on fumes" a lot, if I remember correctly. "3 sheets to the wind", to put it in nautical terms.
 
It is a little scary how just a few tidbits of information you post here and there on the internet can be woven into a single thread that leads directly to you, even with just cursory searching using freely available information.
 
Dave and Charlie,

Feliz cumpleaños! :thumbsup::thumbsup::cool::thumbsup::thumbsup:
(any birthday knives to show off?? :D)

- GT
 
Modoc ED said:
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Just checking to see if Imgur was still working for me.

Winter and snow will be here soon - Woo Hoo !!!!!!!
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ED, I'm afraid I don't share your exuberance over the impending arrival of winter, and especially snow!! That photo really put a damper on my enjoyment of a late summer Saturday with mid-80s temperature. :(:thumbsdown: What's the attraction anyway - do you have another poor knife that you want to leave on the roof for awhile??? :D

- GT
 
pertinux said:
Public Service Announcement, courtesy of our own Jack Black Jack Black , as recently read in the Old Knives thread:

The better part of discretion is to always address others here by the name(s) they themselves use in their posts. I greatly appreciate Jack's thoughtful circumspection:



I agree with everything Jack has so eloquently written here-- including that genuine friendship, in-person meetings, and the sense of camaraderie fostered here can sometimes obscure the reality that in an online forum on the World Wide Web, it is always best to address others in the manner in which they (re)present themselves.

[All legitimately warm fuzzies aside, we are on no one's porch, and not an iota of our discussions here are private. Every word is imminently, eminently searchable, and we are wise to heed the public cues others give us.]

[[As Jack astutely picked up on early and describes above, I very intentionally do not use my name on this forum, nor within any other online venue for that matter. My reasons range from the practical to the Quixotic (the latter including the pretense of privacy), but all fall under the realm of Discretion.]]

Well said, Jack, all of it! :thumbsup:

~ P.
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Thanks for the reminder, ~P. (and Jack). :thumbsup::thumbsup: I'm often guilty of using someone's "real" (first) name if I know it, when I should know better. :( Maybe I'm subject to sometimes having a defeatist attitude about the issue, since I've become accustomed to periodic letters from government agencies asking if it was really me that filed for a tax refund, submitted a claim for Social Security benefits, etc. (the answer is always, "No, wasn't me."). At least one bozo seems to have all my precious numbers and letters at her/his disposal. :mad: I'd love to see the latest hack of a credit rating agency result in a 21st century approach to identification and verification on a (U.S.) national level!

- GT
 
btb01 said:
That would be scenic. Is that on the Arkansas & Missouri Railroad line?

I always enjoyed driving down old Highway 71 from Fayetteville to Fort Smith instead of taking I-540 (which I guess is I-49 now, isn't it?). We drove back and forth between Little Rock and NW Arkansas countless times when I was a kid, back when Highway 71 was the only road. :D
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Barrett, I meant to ask you about this earlier, but this post of yours reminded me of the question I had for you. I recently finished rereading a couple of Stephen Hunter's books with protagonist Bob Lee Swagger, born and raised in fictional (I assume) Blue Eye, Arkansas in the Ouachitas and a frequent traveler of Route 71 to Fort Smith. I find them to be entertaining, if somewhat unbelievable, action novels. :thumbsup::D What do native Arkansans think of Hunter's novels about Bob (and his father Earl)? Do residents laugh at the author's inaccuracies, or celebrate the publicity he brings to the state?

The book I most recently finished was the first, Point of Impact, in which Bob starts out in Arkansas but eventually goes off to live happily ever after (or until the next book) in the Arizona desert. Sound like anyone you know? How are your skills as a sniper?? :confused:;)

- GT
 
Well, I had a great day. I helped my eight-year-old nephew catch his first fish today. He had done a little fishing here and there on Boy Scout camping trips, but hadn't had any luck so far. Back at Christmas, I found out that his parents were giving him and his six-year-old brother fishing rods, so I got permission to give them tackle boxes. They each got identical Plano boxes, stuffed with everything a young boy needs for fishing, complete with engraved name plates.

After another unproductive fishing attempt on a recent family lake trip, their parents asked me if I thought I could help them catch some fish. I said I thought we could manage that, and we arranged to meet this afternoon at a local park that has a small, secluded fishing pond.

I knew it was going to be a good day when I got to the park and immediately found a buckeye tree that was dropping nuts. I picked up several, put one in my pocket with my Case CV stockman, and gave one to each of the boys for good luck.

The younger nephew announced that he was bored after about thirty seconds of watching his bobber, but the older one stuck with it. It wasn't long before we had a small Red-Ear Sunfish, or Shellcracker as we call 'em, in hand. That's the second time I've been able to help a young man catch his first fish. Lemme tell ya', it beats the tar out of any fish I've ever caught myself. Such a great experience.

He's smiling, I promise. :)

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I'd ask to see the grin on the young man's face, but I doubt is was any bigger than the grin on yours. Great post.
 
knarfeng said:
If I know somebody's name (and if I can remember it, which seems to be the larger problem these days) I use it.

... But then I'm an engineer. Grumpy old engineers are not particularly well known for their political correctness.

I'm not going to give an infraction if somebody addresses another member by their name.
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This would make a much better face-to-face conversation for all of us, as many are!

Lacking that, please know that I-- who would prefer to not be the center of a discussion like this -- am not upset. If anything I'm now simply baffled.

I know efforts to maintain some degree of anonymity online are a losing proposition, and that any notions of "privacy" online are illusory and/or Marketing (I just did a search for my whole name, and will likely soon get a text informing me that we need more eggs or something), but I also think one should have the option of maintaining a screen name...?

I don't consider taking a modicum of care-- to make it even just one step harder for those who do not have one's best in mind to connect the dots and cause trouble in yet another arena-- to fall under what I read as a pejorative use of "political correctness."

?

Rules regarding this would be horrid(!), let alone infractions. :eek: I somehow assumed referring to others by the name(s) they use online was a shared standard of etiquette, the breaching of which simply comes down to, "Please, don't." As a matter of consideration.


Like I said earlier, all the horses in my barn are long gone, but watching this all unfold for me over time-- not least because it turns out I really enjoyed playing here on Bladeforums!-- makes me want to be all the more careful on others' behalf, not less.


This is supposed to be the Fun Part®, after all. :cool:


~ P.
 
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5K Qs said:
Barrett, I meant to ask you about this earlier, but this post of yours reminded me of the question I had for you. I recently finished rereading a couple of Stephen Hunter's books with protagonist Bob Lee Swagger, born and raised in fictional (I assume) Blue Eye, Arkansas in the Ouachitas and a frequent traveler of Route 71 to Fort Smith. I find them to be entertaining, if somewhat unbelievable, action novels. :thumbsup::D What do native Arkansans think of Hunter's novels about Bob (and his father Earl)? Do residents laugh at the author's inaccuracies, or celebrate the publicity he brings to the state?

The book I most recently finished was the first, Point of Impact, in which Bob starts out in Arkansas but eventually goes off to live happily ever after (or until the next book) in the Arizona desert. Sound like anyone you know? How are your skills as a sniper?? :confused:;)

- GT
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GT, I'm only vaguely familiar with Stephen Hunter's books, and haven't read any of them myself, so I'm afraid I couldn't say how any Arkansans feel about them.

I can tell you that the Ouachitas are south of Fort Smith, while the portion of Higway 71 I mentioned (between Fort Smith and Fayetteville) is north, heading into the Ozarks. According to Wikipedia, Hunter's Blue Eye, AR is a fictionalized version of Mena, AR. Heading south from Fort Smith, Highway 71 would certainly be the road to take you to Mena (even today), but the winding section of 71 between Fort Smith and Fayetteville was essentially made obsolete in the '90s when they built I-540, which is now part of I-49. You can still take the old road (it's a lot more fun!), but most folks just take the interstate.

Hmm, that move from Arkansas to Arizona certainly does sound familiar. :D

As for my sniper skills, I can tell you that I'm a crack shot with a .22 rifle and some tin cans down range. :cool:
 
I haven't been around lately and don't get the discussion on the use of names.

As the old saying goes, "You can call me anything - just don't call me late for dinner!"

My name is Ed and my forum name is Modoc ED. Call me either one.

As for some of your questions about snow - I like it. Plowing and shoveling are a pain but once I'm done with that, it's all fun.

Sarah - Glad the "Three Amigos" are still traveling with you along with some Case Red Bone.
 
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