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Mississippi Rifleman

Mississippi Rifleman

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Hey everyone. I want to display my khukuris for everyone to see. I was thinking about putting them on the wall, but I can't figure out how to do that. I'd like to have them with the scabbard beneath them. Anyone got any ideas?

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MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY
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Fear the man that owns only one rifle,
he likely knows how to use it.
- Anonymous
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Ben Lee
Computer Science
AOL IM: MSURifleman
www2.netdoor.com/~rifleman
www2.msstate.edu/~brl2
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Hah! Pending better arrangements, mine reside standing in an open top box in the home "office". Practical? Yes and no. Yes in that if I want to look at one, I know where it is, and if I have a use for one they are not "out of sight, out of mind". No in that my better half has realized the box is getting "fuller".
 
Hmm ... if you get a slightly bigger box every time you get a new khukuri then it wouldn't look any fuller ... be careful not to overdo it, though; if you let the box grow faster than your khukuri collection it'll look emptier ... and I suppose it's possible even though the box never seems to get any fuller ... after a while she might get to wondering whether it always filled half the room ... I dunno. Wait -- you can solve that problem, too -- make the room bigger, a little at a time -- then she'll never know the difference!

Another idea occurs to me -- if you keep them in a box made of mirrors that'll make it hard to tell just how many khukuris there are in the box. Especially if you keep rearranging them.

Um ... yes, I am taking that sinus medication again ... how did you guess?
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-Cougar :{)
 
Ben, email me, I might have an idea for you.



[This message has been edited by Jon (edited 06-06-2000).]
 
Cougar
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Do they consume mass quantities in Remulak?


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Ray
 
Ben,
I hang most of my khukuris horizontally on the wall. With scabbards in good shape I wrap black 28 gauge wire where the top of the frog is and make a loop 'behind' the knife. Put a nail or a small picture hook in the wall and then a thin brad by the point to hold it up. Make sense? The 'ancient and infirm' get a more complicated and gentle treatment.
Terry & Sandi Sisco have built a wooden unit that works like a long toilet paper holder with the bar going through the loops of the frogs and the knives hang vertically. Great system and simple.

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JP
 
Here is the idea I had. Jon and I are discussing this offline. I want them turned right side up and at an upward angle. Two rows facing each other going up the wall with space in the middle for the swords HI has.


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MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY
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Fear the man that owns only one rifle,
he likely knows how to use it.
- Anonymous
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Ben Lee
Computer Science
AOL IM: MSURifleman
www2.netdoor.com/~rifleman
www2.msstate.edu/~brl2
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Hey, Cougar, that's one of those "rate of change" calculus word problems that used to make my head hurt.

I could try to baffle by rambling on about the theory of relativity and its effect on space and time, but this could be easily defeated by counting handles.

I am considering a defense as follows: "I'm planning on paying for our future children's education by amassing a collection of khukuris which will appreciate handsomely over time." Hopefully I will not be asked if I intend to actually sell them off at a later date. [This idea was inspired by Jeff Foxworthy's "You might me a redneck if you collect NASCAR plates as an investment for your kid's education."]
 
We always consume mass quantities here in Remulak -- I'm smoking a box of cigars right now as I write. Anything worth doing is worth overdoing!

Now that I'm off the sinus medication ... that idea about enlarging the room every time you buy a new khukuri seems a little impractical, but the mirrored box idea should work. If you make a hexagonal box of mirrors with the opposite sides not quite parallel each reflection will be a little displaced from the one before, and there will appear to be an infinite number of khukuris in the box, getting smaller and smaller ... all different sizes....

Hey, honey -- I have an infinite number of khukuris now! So you don't have to worry about me buying more ... no matter how many new ones I buy I'll still have the same number of khukuris.
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-Cougar :{)


[This message has been edited by Cougar Allen (edited 06-11-2000).]
 
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