HAVE SOME PITY JERRY !!!

[contender]

Jerry, I beg you to end the naming contest.

I am concerned for the likes of Climber, Hoodoo, VShgios, Firehorse, Eaisaacs and the multitude of others who are at risk of losing their jobs, their marriages and their health as they endlessly think up and post names for your new knife and continue posting ad infinitum (make that ad nauseum).

Rumor has it that one poor soul has gone without eating; another is not sleeping as they continue to post relatively ridiculous names with the hope that, like LOTTO, quantity is better than quality.

End this cruel game Jerry so the the countries GDP is not effected and these poor guys can go back to their mundane lives.

Have some nuclear pity !

 

[SALTY]

Marc, How about

1. Nucleay Pity
2. Pity Nuclear
3. Atomic Compassion
4. Compassionate Atom
5. Gimme Abreak
6. Madness Stop
7. Contest End
8. End Contest
9. Enough Already
10.Already Enough

[This message has been edited by Nimrod (edited 04-28-2001).]

 

[SALTY]

Or perhaps,

1. Endless Search
2. Ceasless Search
4. Questionable Quest
5. Name a Knife
6. Knife a Name
7. Con Test
8. Kon Tiki
9. Cyber Cypher
10.INFI nite

 

[Jerry Busse]

Contender,

I feel your pain. . . . but it is usually after the exhaustion sets in that inspiration strikes. Historically, the greatest works of art have only been realized in the artist's most desperate state. It is only through great pain and suffering that those who have had the fortitude to hang in there, with a true survivor's mental set, will arrive at what will certainly prove to be their finest moment. It will not happen until they lose their jobs, their wives, and homes. Not until the relationship that they have developed between their children and themselves has eroded to the point that their children look on milk cartons for pictures of the man that they used to call "daddy", will they even be close to enlightenment.

Contender, Are you suggesting that I rob these men of this opportunity? Do you truly believe in what you profess, or are you simply out of ideas?. . . Has the well gone dry? Is this nothing more than a thinly disguised plea to stop the competition because you have fallen from the race? Have you become so threatened that you now feel that your only hope is to win by attrition? How sad. . . . . I cannot, and will not, stop the brave few who continue to post against all odds until they have realized their highest moment of inspiration. (. . . .or until midnight, Sunday, April 29, 2001 . . . whichever comes first

)

Am I to stop the competition because of a few broken marriages and lost jobs? We are trying to name a knife! What can possibly take precedence over that? I will stay at my computer until the very end!!!!. . . . ..Mark my words. . .I will not give up!!!! I am here for the duration my friends!. . . I will stand by you until. . . . . Oooops, gotta go, Jennifer just called . . . .later.

Yours in nuclear. . . .uhmm . . .hmmmm. . . gotta go! Good luck!

Jerry Busse


[This message has been edited by Jerry Busse (edited 04-28-2001).]

 

[Hoodoo]

Well...I was going through great pain and suffering over this but today at the Grand Rapids Gun and Knife Show I bought a brand spanking new Natural Outlaw and I FEEL A LOT BETTER.

Wait...I'm having an inspirational moment...
How about:
Pie Slicer
Cheese Cutter
umm....Hair Splitter?


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Hoodoo

I get some pleasure from finding a relentlessly peaceful use for a combative looking knife.
JKM

 

[contender]

....please add Nimrod's name to my list.

(Although I actually liked a couple of his names).

 

[Climber]

Ah, Contender... Thanks so much for your concern for myself & all my knife-bro's out there... the contest is over, & my marriage is still intact... Good to know that you're out there for our care... of course, since your'e one of the guys who sold me a Busse knife, you're part of the reason for my quest for more, more, more!
And thanks, Jerry, for seeing the inspirational motivation of it all... what's the rest of life without a knife, anyway?
tsk, tsk.
Climber, taking it easy...

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Clif
"Percival... I never knew how empty was my soul until it was filled."
Arthur the King upon sipping from the Grail.

 

[Jerry Busse]

Clif,

You really need to consider being a knifemaker. . . . you've got the bizarre hours down. . . now all you need is the bizarre behavior and you'll be. . . .hey, wait a minute, I've just read some of your entries. . . .Welcome my fellow knifemaker!

Here's a knifemaker's secret technique that will help you stack Z's. It is sort of a self-hypnosis thing, and it is quite simple really. Just hang your Basic #3 from a ceiling fan by a cord and as you watch it rotate. . . repeat after me. . . . Sleeeeeep. . . .I must sleeeeep. .. . . .I looooovvvvve INFI. . . .but I must sleeeeeeep. . ..

The ceiling fan works best. I tried a table fan a couple of times but I kept falling face-first into it and the scarring became quite noticeable. Best of lock

Yours in nuclear nightmares,

Jerry Busse
Sleep. .. . . must go to sleep. . . . .

[This message has been edited by Jerry Busse (edited 04-30-2001).]

 

[Climber]

Jerry,
Just got up from my own surrealistic nightmare-nap: nuclear sunburns help in that cause... Yes, i must admit, B4 i found the internet & its best part: Bladeforums, i could be found in the dead of night / wee hours of morn at the grinding wheel, or drill press, fabricating God-only-knows what... the mental & behavioral apparatus is all in place, Doktor, no radical change needed for this metal-munchin fool! From lock picks to swords, i grind'em!
i haven't tried the ceiling fan trick with VAL, my #3, tho': i'm so afraid! so afraid! Noooo..... Of course, with my double grapevine knot in the lanyard cord, VAL wouldn't be comin' off that fan-blade anytime soon! i could hang full weight off that stylin' weave-knot!

Yours in life-protecting Nuclear climbing-knots, Clif-of-all-trades!

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Clif
"Percival... I never knew how empty was my soul until it was filled."
Arthur the King upon sipping from the Grail.