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Folksy?
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Scary thing is I could hear that Taj Mahal tune in my head and even started singing it. Yipes!
No insult taken on this end, but enjoyed the chatter.
Tell ya what though. I'm missing that 54 Chevy 5-window I had up in Alaska for a bit. Original engine and a 2 speed auto. I even bought a set of bibs to go along with it. Supposedly, the auto tranny didn't come out in the truck until 55, but this was a factory install. Scary thing is I'd get run over on even the back roads out here nowadays in it. Fast, even medium speed it wasn't.
I was looking at the 54 Chevy and a 63 Ford truck on a lemon lot on Fort Wainwright. One fellow owned both and he had a few too many around that his wife appreciated. I was sitting in the 54 trying to decide between them (this was in the early 90s) and my then wife says, "Honey, you just look like an old truck." I took it as a compliment, but I still got rid of the wife a few years later. Still wish I had the truck.
Reminds me. I didn't think much about wife swapping until I saw the truck another fellow got for his!
No insult taken on this end, but enjoyed the chatter.
Tell ya what though. I'm missing that 54 Chevy 5-window I had up in Alaska for a bit. Original engine and a 2 speed auto. I even bought a set of bibs to go along with it. Supposedly, the auto tranny didn't come out in the truck until 55, but this was a factory install. Scary thing is I'd get run over on even the back roads out here nowadays in it. Fast, even medium speed it wasn't.
I was looking at the 54 Chevy and a 63 Ford truck on a lemon lot on Fort Wainwright. One fellow owned both and he had a few too many around that his wife appreciated. I was sitting in the 54 trying to decide between them (this was in the early 90s) and my then wife says, "Honey, you just look like an old truck."
I took it as a compliment, but I still got rid of the wife a few years later. Still wish I had the truck.Reminds me. I didn't think much about wife swapping until I saw the truck another fellow got for his!
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Guilty as charged.
FOLKSY -
adjective
having the characteristics of traditional culture and customs.
(of a person) informal and unpretentious.
Folksy - Also defined as simple in manner. That is why, here in the Ozarks (you know you are in the Ozarks when your front porch falls in and 15 dogs die) we like folksy.
Give us traditional slipjoints, finished as clean as a hound-dog's tooth, and we are happy all the way to the still.
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.. Give us traditional slipjoints, finished as clean as a hound-dog's tooth, and we are happy all the way to the still.
- Joe
Amen Brother Joe!. Thats just how we like 'em down here in the Florida swamps too.
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Wonder what he really meant by folksy, originally?
If liking a traditional American knife that is not only beautiful to look at but is a fine tool too is folksy, then good thing!
You could even say "Folk Off!" At times....
If liking a traditional American knife that is not only beautiful to look at but is a fine tool too is folksy, then good thing!
You could even say "Folk Off!" At times....
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I think we've determined that STeven meant it in the best context and I was wrong initially for reacting as if it was meant negatively. (Of course, I was trying to moderate a bit of a pi$$ing match at the time so I was a little less jocular than usual.)
The upside is that this thread has brought me a ton of laughs and some pretty good insights as well. :thumbup:
The upside is that this thread has brought me a ton of laughs and some pretty good insights as well. :thumbup:
