Ghorkas cut themselves? Is this possible?

cndrm said:
As for the squirrels eating steak, I've got an aggressive little red squirrel here, and I'd bet he'd love it if I threw a T-Bone or Porterhouse out for him.:D

mike
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Having been shocked as a child to see a red squirrel run down a tree and proceed to disembowel a chipmunk, i wouldn't be surprised.

Sorry to be semi-off-topic. Me love kukri too.
 
When I first heard this idea, I asked John Powell, khukri guru, about the truth to the rumor. He said it was BS, Urban Myth, joke among the ghurkas and NOT TRUE.
 
Kevin the grey said:
Sounds like the chaos theory righting itself . If chaos can ever be righted ?
If Chaos can be righted , what would be lefted ? L:O:L
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A joke told among the angels? If eternity should end, "WHEN" would "THAT" be? ;) :rolleyes: :D
 
In Dune, yes the crysknife was supposed to be blooded before it was resheathed, but the crysknife was not for eating or doing work, it was a weapon only, so the point was that you didnt draw it unless you intended to kill someone. (just like a loaded gun)
Of course, the fremen had blood that coagulated many times faster than a normal person, so a little cut was nothing to them.
The crysknife was made from the tooth of a giant sandworm and was worn next to the body at all times. The reason was that the body's electric field kept the knife from disintegrating. (not blood, electricity)
There were some cyrsknives that had been "fixed" and did not need to be carried next to the body at all times..

According to Frank Herberts' description the crysknife was "double edged and curved like a kindjal with a 20 cm blade. The handle was black and deeply ridged for a strong grip"
Sounds just like that knife made from a horn that HI sold here a month ago...
I want one now!
 
I read somewhere that the myth about Ghorkas having to cut themselves everytime the khukuri came out likely sprang from the belief that its bad luck to draw a khuk in anger and not draw blood with it.

The story about the American drawing a Gorkha's khuk sounds a bit farfetched, unless he has permission.

Bob
 
Do squirrels eat steak
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(I have nothing of value to add to this...but that won't stop me:D)

My brother and I were quite distressed while at the Zoo in Omaha Nebraska to learn that squirrels there ate hot dogs..

...we then looked down at our little toes peeking out of our Teva sandals..we decided lunch was over;)
 
Like MauiRob, I have nothing of value to add.

Except that my friend's dogs love cheese. :D


Good sunday morning reading....


~ b
 
Yvsa said:
A joke told among the angels? If eternity should end, "WHEN" would "THAT" be? ;) :rolleyes: :D
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To some , eternity is a long waiting line with no bathroom breaks . To others it is a path of enlightenment that leads to a door . Laughter like the purest of crystal bells can be heard from the other side . We open it thinking surely this is enlightenment and find those damn angels rolling around on the floor laughing ! L:O:L
 
tedwca said:
http://www.army.mod.uk/brigade_of_gurkhas/history/kukri_history.htm

"The kukri has somehow produced a fertile crop of myths and legends in the western world; and the most impossibly wild amongst them are the most tenaciously believed. Two already mentioned are that a kukri once drawn in whatever circumstances must taste blood before it is resheathed. ........ If the first of these were true no Gurkha would survive to adulthood: He would lose pints of blood every day as he chopped wood, sharpened a wooden peg, opened a tin of beans and slashed down encroaching undergrowth. After each task he would have to shed some of his own blood."

I've heard the same thing said about katanas.
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trust not that which regularly bleeds for 3-5 days and lives :)

clearly, the Gurkhas were all WIMMINS :>

and yeah, most animals, planties or otherwise, will gladly eat meat, especially blood and fat, given the chance or the need.

i've also seen crows, in murder mode, attack squirrels and things out of trees, and rip them to shreds. yar. scary. makes you think of velociraptors.

bladite
 
I put a little lizard in a cage once with a bigger lizard. I thought the little guy would keep the bigger guy company. In two days I had a single big lizard in a cage.




munk
 
I did a similar thing with a cute little tiger oscar. Except I put him in with a whole tank of bigger fish. Over time (and not much of it) he was suddenly the only fish left---and a much bigger fish at that.

This same fish when he was 4 inches long ate 90+ feeder goldfish in a weekend--no joke. These goldfish were at least 1/2 an inch long. Shouldnt' that be physically impossible?!

Edited to add: I went away that weekend, so I have no proof he ate them. I did have some odd neighbors at the time;)
 
Don,

I think it's BS, though perhaps there's something to the "in anger" part. More likely, though, it's a legend someone came up with to explain the cho.

I was 3 or 4, and sitting in the back yard, with my widdle legs straight out in front of me. A squirrel came up and bit my big toe.

I have since wreaked a terrible vengeance upon them.

~J
 
Yet another one of those Discovery specials that I love so much talked about some "beast" That was ravaging the local ground birds. Headless birds were being found left and right, and no one knew what would eat the bird's head and not the bird itself. After a little investigating they found that it was the local deer population. Something about it needing higher calcium in its diet for some reason. The deer would stomp the bird to death, then eat its hard calcium rich head.
I'm wanting to say it was over in the UK somewhere but i could be wrong:confused:

Jake
 
Don't need to cut myself when I draw one of my knives, least not the ones I use hard on a regular basis. They've all already had a little "taste". :o :D

Sarge
 
I like a good story as well as the next guy......but this one totally passes any possibility of credibility. I have worked with police officers in....say 42 foriegn countries, including among others Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Indonesia, and Iran (never Nepal). Some of these little guys are....rather intense. Had I grabbed at one of their weapons, I would have expected to draw back a bloody stub, or have it shoved halfway up my nevermind. Your correspondent is full of condensed apple pie IMHO. Next he'll be sacrificing a goat to atone for his error in letting a farang get his hands too close his knickers! :D
 
Just how far is (half way up your nevermind ?)
I agree that it is an implausible scenario. However it is amazing how far being brazen will get you . Fools go where wise men fear to tread .
I have had an inteligent man put his hand on my blade to test its sharpness . While I was holding it . I had just cut simething and was in the midst of cutting something else . If I didn,t keep a close eye on which direction I point the blade he might have been a sorry man .
 
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