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I'm going to start this now so I can get things moving, and I'm probably going to regret the way I've decided to do this but I'm pushing along anyway. To, enter you must be a contributing member in good standing, meaning you must have posts outside of other giveaway threads and the exchange, and your posts in the regular areas of the forum (outside the nasty areas like W&C and Political) can't be trolling, aggressive, offensive, or otherwise distasteful. I am going to check on the winner, we'll get to that. In order to enter, do not post "I'm in", reply with a funny story, picture, poem, or whatever (It can't be serious) about anything you like, keep in mind this is general knife discussion, so keep it clean or you lose. Winner will be chosen by post number at random in a couple of weeks, we'll end it on Thanksgiving at midnight to make everything all neat.

Now here's the catch. I'm not going to tell you what the prize is, mostly because I haven't bought it yet. Essentially it's a surprise prize. What I will say is that it will be ~$50 and will be chosen based on the winner's forum posts. I'll probably send it towards the middle of December.



Also, post your favorite animal. :p
 
I'm not good at writing stories, so I'll just let my cat walk on the keyboard for a bit and see what comes up. Here I go...


Edward in the sunlight was shocking. I couldn't get used to it, though
I'd been staring at him all afternoon. His skin, white despite the faint
flush from yesterday's hunting trip, literally sparkled, like thousands
of tiny diamonds were embedded in the surface. He lay perfectly still in
the grass, his shirt open over his sculpted, incandescent chest, his
scintillating arms bare. His glistening, pale lavender lids were shut,
though of course he didn't sleep. A perfect statue, carved in some
unknown stone, smooth like marble, glittering like crystal.


Ok, so it's not Fluffy's best work, but I'll post it anyways.

Edit: Oh right, favorite animal.
 
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I got bored just before I was leaving my hotel a couple months ago...

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My favorite animal is the blue ringed octopus, https://www.google.com/search?q=blue+ringed+octopus&safe=off&client=safari&hl=en&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=-iaBUp__NNCdkQecxYGwDQ&ved=0CAkQ_AUoAA&biw=1024&bih=649
 


Fiji water truck going around with the word "Untouched" on the side.



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Also, favorite animal, sloth.
 
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Leaves on Grass


The branches sway.
The dew has set.
Dawn decides to come again...
To wake the day.
You are no longer by my side,
But you always were.
I will hold every thought, to which death disturbed.
Before the weightless waves splashed on shore,
Which left the sandy banks a dune,
You have always been my moon.
You inhaled hope...
Sung your hymns to the leaves.
It pleased the saps off cypress trees.
I gently flayed the bark to see the Heartwood's life...
Hmph...Why would God pick ripe?
He knew, he MUST have known, of our halcyon days.
Cold, pained, hung by waves.
I cried to the shades...sadly cried...thinking that your branches would outlive my life...
The branches sway.
The dew has set.
Dawn decides to come again...
To wake the day.
You are no longer by my side,
But you always were.
I will hold every thought, to which death disturbed.
Every thought
Every joy
To what death destroyed.


Although I am not eligible to participate in the give-away, I did want to share a poem I wrote for my sister, who passed away a couple of years ago. The poem is a reflection of my love for her, which is, and always will be. May this comfort someone else.

Author- me, Anthony Quenga Jr.
 
Well, I really like to grow hot peppers, but I don't like to eat them all that much. But, this year I grew some naga morich, similar to the ghost pepper, and I decided I needed to man up and eat what I had grown.
I brought one to cut into pieces and to eat with my friends before school. Everyone else decided to make an excuse and I ended up eating it whole by myself.
Everything started hurting (mouth, lips, nose, ears and even under the fingernails), then I panicked a little and started chugging milk, the pain soon stopped but I threw up all the milk.
In conclusion, I started my first class with red eyes from puking and a major endorphin rush from the pain, needless to say everyone thought I had been smoking weed...
To tie things up, I would have cut the pepper with my crkt ripple and my favorite animal is the shark
This was the bad boy
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This might be a story where you had to be there, but here it goes...

Me and a couple of buddies were duck hunting. We were using a push pole to get back into some wild rice when a couple of trumpeter swans buzzed us at about 30 feet. After they fly over, my buddy in the bow of the boat looks down and blurts out "OOOOOHHH MYYYY GOOOOOOOODDDDD"! "What?, what!?", we respond. He points to a brown lumpy pile (the size a bear would leave behind) sitting on the bow right next to the navigation light. We immediately new why he was so concerned. He apparently thought the lumpy pile was a gift from one of the swans. It took the other two of us at least 10 minutes to stop laughing while he discerned that the pile was not from the swans, but was lake muck that had dropped from the push pole...

This is the same guy that once yelled out after firing his shotgun, "a leaf just flew out of my gun"! It was the wad... :rolleyes:

I'm in... Favorite animal: Timber Wolf
 
This is one of my favorite photos of one of the most amazing place I've ever been to on earth.

Taken across from the eating cafeteria of La Selva Biological Science station in Selva Verde, Costa Rica.

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My wife and myself are animal photography nuts. Mostly reptiles as that is what we do as a hobby. Every year we spend at least one vacation as off the grid as possible in search of reptiles to photograph. Out trips have included walking swampy roads in South Florida, mosquito infested ditches in Arizona off of main highways, deserts, volcanos, vertical cliffs and acid lakes.

So it was fitting that we eloped in Costa Rica. We were married in the Osa Peninsula on a 1,000 acre nature preserve called Lapa Rios. It was a pretty amazing experience there were about 20 other guests in the eco lodge overlooking a cliff and 80 ecolodge employees. The place where we were married was ranked #7 on National Geographic's top ecolodges in the world. Anyway we stayed there and it was amazing, we took thousands of animal photos over 6 days. We then traveled to Arenal and hiked up an extinct volcano whose path was completely washed out in search of venomous fer de lance and eyelash vipers. Afterwards we ended up at La Selva.

La Selva is NOT your normal honeymoon spot. It is a biological station that is a learning tool for future biologists. Meaning we stayed in a cinder block school dormitory room, sharing a twin bed with no air conditioning. The food was horrendous and school cafeteria style and the place was full of biologists and future biologists. In exchange though, we were able to see some of the craziest biodiversity on the planet. These included an 8 inch by 4 inch roach like creature sitting on a tree in the middle of a pitch black moonless night. Bullet ants the width of a pinky. In addition we were able to roam the rain forests in complete darkness by ourselves. The photo though is one of my favorite memories of the biological station. Every night after eating at the cafeteria we would gear up at dusk for our night photography sessions. As we headed to the suspension bridge that got us into the rain forest, there was a set of iguanas who climbed up this 150 foot tree to fall asleep on a tree branch. The photo took me quite a while to get the settings right. But the purplish color of the night sky is the exact shade of dusk as when we were there.
 
My favorite animal is the mountain lion. Thanks for the chance.

One of the reasons I'm glad we homeschool our two daughters:
Me: What's wrong with these people, using the "S" word
Sarah, my 9 year old: Yeah
Me: Snow?
Sarah: Oh, I thought you meant the worst word
Me: What word?
Sarah: I can't say it
Me: Spell it
Sarah: s-t-u-p-i-d
Me: :)
 
I'm in.
I decided to prank my first roommate a few months after I moved out. We kind if got into a fight when I left, but the love was still there...just ego stuff in the way. One night after about 3 redbulls the plan hatched. I bought 20lbs of bananas and headed over to her house. This was probably around 2am....and I was 19. I hung the bananas from her trees with fishing line. So she had banana trees! I put them in her mail box, on the door, in her car, on the side walk and the swinging bench. Because I used to live there I knew where her ladders were, and that she never locked her windows. I crawled into the house and left bananas all over her home....and a couple of coconuts. At the time she was filming her life. So the next morning when she woke up she was filming everything. She filmed her reaction to the carnage in the house and outside. It was seriously the funniest damn thing watching that video. I also left a crazy banana message on her answering machine. Makes me laugh to this day.
 
thanks for the chance!!

this is a story of something i just did recently dealing with the Carolina Reaper
So one of my friends grows this pepper called Carolina Reaper, if you know what this is you know where this is going. for those who dont let me inform, the Carolina Reaper is the hottest pepper on record; makes ghost's look like habaneros. one day i decided to buy 5 of them from him and put them in a full bag n ask some friends, close acquaintances, to try them. I informed them well in advance what they were and what could happen to them, cautioning them to not eat them if they aren't up to it. Of course there were a few that stepped up to the challenge.
the first gent grabs on n smells it, right there he knew this was trouble. so i let him take a sliver n eat it. with in moments hes sweating up a storm & began drinking half n half out of the fridge. Of course this spooked a few & provoked some thinking he was just a wuss. So 2 more decided to try. They sniffed, realized the heat n took a sliver, same out come.
At this point im about to cry im laughing so hard. this upset them & they challenged me. So I grabbed on of the little red balls n potted it in my mouth, whole. chewed swallowed and took another & did the same. they were shocked to say the least. after bout 5 more I smiled n left the room where i found my friend sitting outside the hall shaking his head trying not to laugh. he knew what had happened.
I you remember from the beginning of this story, i only bought 3 peppers. how could i possibly eat more than 3? well its simple, i didnt.

For those who do not know the Reaper looks something like this:
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which kinda looks like these:
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the ones on the bottom are far from hot, bitter at most. what i was eating instead were harmless dried cherry tomatoes, something my daring friends did not pick up on while i was having my thought to be deadly snack.

yes this is a cruel thing to do, & i dont recommend you trying this on anyone who doesnt have a sense of humor. thankfully they did
 
Winter 1985.
We were a bunch of 6-8 year old kids and liked building snowmen in front of our school.
Everyday our sport teacher had fun destroying them with his car. Until...
... one day we had build our best looking snowman yet around a fire hydrant.
It actually worked as intended and we were scared when he got out of his damaged car. However he was laughing really hard.
Cool guy!

Favorite animal:
Secretary Bird
I had never seen one before until this year. Amazing creatures, check on YouTube!
 
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What Happened in Detroit

A tough looking biker had been in the biker bar for quite some time when he finally decided it was time, once again to hit the road. He stepped through the front door of the bar and instantly realized that his bike had vanished from the spot he had parked it.

"All right" he said loudly, coming back into the busy biker bar "I'm going to have a shot of whisky and if my hog isn't back up front by the time I'm done, what happened in Detroit will happen here too!"

With that many of the bikers ran out of the bar and within moments one came back to tell the tough biker that his hog was now parked in front of the bar for him. When the tough guy started to leave the bartender asked him.

"Pardon me, stranger, but what happened in Detroit?"

The tough biker replied casually: "I had to walk back to my hotel!"




My favorite animal is the dog.
 
A little conversation between me and my son just right now
Me: You know all super heros are fake, right?
Kid: Yeah, I know. That's why I'm gonna be the real one!
I think he was for real!! :D

Favorite animal: Dog
Thank you for the chance!
 
My biggest vice is that I buy and occasionally sell knives, bayonets, cleavers, bayonets and the odd-ball sword.

If I have more than 1 or 2 to pick up at same time, I tend to open the packages, remove the knives, cut out the shipping labels (for tracking purposes) and leave all the boxes and junk packaging for the PO to get rid of. If I happen to be working on a bunch of packages, I use one box for the knives and one for the bubble wrap (if any) to keep for re-use.

Last week, I had 2 strange events occur while at the PO. One is a little sad, so I will save that one for posting elsewhere.

Last Friday, I was in the post office picking up some knives I had coming in. I was opening packages with a Kabar 1232 and had a box sitting on the counter with a Western Bowie W49, a 1907 SMLE 16 inch bayonet, a Camillus BK1, a Kabar USN/MK2, and an Aerial M4 bayonet sticking out of it. None of these are exactly inconspicuous. With a very serious expression, a lady asked me if I had a knife to cut the packing tape for her with. I pointed at the box of steel and asked which one she wanted to use. She jumped like a snake had popped out of the box. She literally had not even noticed what was sitting not a foot from her. She grinned and said, "Yeah, well, I guess you do. I think you and my brother would get along well."

I now have a business card for a guy who does CNC work AND is a knife guy.

Favorite animal: Australian Cattle Dogs. I have 2 - 1 red heeler and 1 blue.
 
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Back in Oct, 11, a bunch of friends and I went out to Moab for a little Mountain Biking.
One day we rode the Porcupine Rim Trail and several others which was part of an epic 25 mile downhill day.
Just because it was downhill, doesn't mean it was easy.
Absolutely exhausting, but thrilling none the less.
One of the best days I ever had.
Thanks for the chance dude.
Lenny
 
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