Knife people are well rounded people!

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Vailin Krow

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Okay, here's the deal...many people i come into contact with know me for two different things, 1. My knife passion or 2. My writings. When they learn of the other they're amazed!, like i'm some kind of weirdo, "but...you love knives!"..yes, i'm also a poet...but it always gets 'em.
What i want to know, is how many of you out there have another passion/job or hobby that (in the normal thinking of the masses) that just don't go together, and what are they! I keep telling people, we knife people are well rounded...now i want to know if i'm right..*chuckles*.
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"Suddenly there came a tapping, as of some one gently rapping, rapping at
my chamber door." Tis only me with my Sifu, nothing more. ;)

 
Vailin,

Since you ended your post with a "chuckle", I can't resist.... does my "middle aged spread" make me well rounded
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......... Varmint Hunters Association
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......... Praire Thunder Inc.
......... Rapid City Rifle Club
......... Spearfish Rifle & Pistol Club
pending: Buck Collectors Club (prime interest: 532s)
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You hit the nail on the head with me. I'm a scientist in the field of biolgy/comparative physiology, and I can't think of a single academic (with the exception of a Finn I met in Turku, Finland once) who shares my passion for knives. Unfortunately I have to be low key around school with knives. I don't want to alarm the students or faculty.



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Hoodoo

Cogita tute
 
Tom, are you sure that wasn't a moyle?

So, I’m not the only Poet/Philosopher/Knife Enthusiast?

And I certainly wouldn’t be caught dead at the Theatre or Symphony without a knife. No self respecting Stagehand would.


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James Segura
San Francisco, CA


 
I, of course, am a knife person. I also play the drums in a Funk/Jazz/Blues band, enjoy writing short stories (Sci-Fi) and reading books. I'm in a Marching Band too!

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"If you fake the Funk, your nose will grow."
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[This message has been edited by King of Groove (edited 25 October 1999).]
 
Back to the original premise : no ! no more rounded than any other group in society.
there are, probably, people on lots of other "weird" groups asking similar questions.
f'rinstance : gun people, cycle people, motorcycle people, beer people, and let's not forget those on the outlandish sex groups.
Sorry....forget the weird sex people
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BrianWE
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I think :therefore, I am......I think


 
So far, the common thread in this thread seems to be a love of arts, classical music, theater, etc. I'll certainly agree with that. No, TomW is not the only one at the symphony with a knife in his pocket.

I collect balisongs, often seen as the "bad guy" knife.

I love classical music, jazz, and bluegrass. I love broadway musicals. I enjoy theater, the opera, I've even enjoyed modern dance a time or two.

I study knife and stick fighting, it's true.

I rarely miss church on Sunday and am very actively involved in my congregation. I enjoy bible study and teach old testament history. God himself, you know, is a sword collector.

I bake bread. I make beer and wine, but I'm best known for a little thing called Chuckg's Apple Ambience, a champaign-style hard cider made in the traditional way.

I'm also a ham radio operator and enjoy crewing on power yachts.

And that's just to name a few of my many activities.

While I have an elaborate home theater, you can not watch TV in my house (only videos). That's why I have time for so many other things. The idea of just sitting on the sofa and watching mindless dribble for hours a day is just foreign to me. I saw a bumpersticker I liked the other day. It said, "Shoot your TV!" Well, I occasionally go shooting too, so that would combine two great activities.

Knife collectors are a very diverse group.


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Chuck
Balisongs -- because it don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing!
http://www.4cs.net/~gollnick
 
Hmmm.

I'm a network TV producer, helping my wife raise three spirited young boys. I love classical music, hip-hop, jazz, any rock... whatever. We go to the ballet. I'll read anything, from odd conspiracy theories to serious history to classics to bad sci-fi. I don't own a gun and probably won't get around to it until the boys are grown. In spite of my profession, we don't watch TV in my house, only tapes. In the spirit of biting the hand which feeds me, most TV nowadays is complete ca-ca (and that includes most of what I make). We camp and hike and travel all over the world, dragging toddlers and babies with us. We recycle. Most of my friends are scared to death of 'those damn knives.' Rounded enough?
 
I'm an aircraft technician who studies external & terminal ballistics, has a passion for history and writes poetry.

Good steel, to me, is poetry in solid form.

Blackdog

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When the world is at peace, a gentleman keeps his sword by his side.......
Sun-Tzu 400 BC

 
You can find knife lovers in any walk of life. We've sold knives to hollywood celebrities, politicians of national fame, corporate CEO's, an amazing number of doctors-basically any kind of person you could imagine. It's a cross section of people who use the internet and that's a cross section of society in general.

For myself, I'm an aging entrepreneur who operates several businesses. I like knives, naturally, but I also like golf, photography hi fi and music. I've played piano for about 35 years.

You should see how many of those GT switchblade golf divot tools I've sold at the country club to members who see me use mine. Everybody seems to like a blade with a spring.

Eric, that's an amazing statement from you. Honesty to the core. I've had employees ask me if I saw such and such a show on TV last night. Usually, I've never heard of the show. I don't think I've watched a prime time network TV show in 10 years. I watch a few golf tournaments and football games on network TV and I like educational shows and shows about history and all of those are on satellite. I was asked once to be one of those people who have a box attached to the TV to measure viewing activity for the ratings. I declined. I didn't want to throw off the ratings. Take care.

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Fred
Knife Outlet
www.knifeoutlet.com

 
Well, I don't know if I can cop to being well-rounded, but I may be able to add a point or two in the "not what people would peg as your stereotypical knifeaholic" category:

Can I see a show of hands for how many others have been to a few dozen Grateful Dead concerts? I've more than a few friends who have thought it kinda weird that someone with long hair and wearing tie-dye would be interested in knives...

(Gack, there's a quote I can't find just now that goes something like this: He takes a look at my sandals, my tie-dyed t-shirt and my beard and says "What are you, some kinda hippie?" "No," I say, grabbing him by the throat, "hippies are pacifists."
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I'm a programmer/SysAdmin who eats/sleeps/dreams in Perl these days. I used to pass as a Unix Guru, at my previous job, but, well, now I share an office with someone who's written some of the RFC's that make the Internet go, so...

Heh, and, I'm probably also the only one here with a passion for programming PalmPilots in Forth (mostly because I'd instantly recognize any of the other shady characters from over on the Quartus Forum).

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Think this through with me ... Let me know your mind
Wo-oah, what I want to know ... is are you kind?
-- Hunter/Garcia, "Uncle John's Band"
 
I guess I forgot to mention that I am the King of all VOODOO.

Does this mean that I can get one of the Crocodile pouches???
 
GREAT TOPIC!!!!!

Here's me, the well-rounded knife person:

1. former musician (trumpet player who did officers' clubs, weddings, a recording session every now and then, etc.)

2. teacher in independent schools and one college (band, jazz band, chorus, English (if you can believe it
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), and Christian theology.

3. music history buff (M.A. degree in music history from Cal State) with special interest in the relation between the contrapuntal styles of J.S. Bach and '50s bebop.

4. serious student of theology (just GOTTA know the finer distinctions between sublapsarianism and supralapsarianism)

5. lover and keeper of Maine Coon cats

6. collector (and voracious reader of) leather-bound classic novels.

7. gardener

8. whitetail hunter

9. DAY JOB: Director of Alumni and Public Relations (the fund-raising guy) for a prep school

10. band instrument repairs on the side

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Bill

"They'll say I was a musician, won't they?"
--Beethoven on his deathbed (and you thought nobody but you was insecure . . . )


[This message has been edited by Uncle Bill (edited 26 October 1999).]
 
Ok Bill you stumped me. Contrapuntal styles of Bach,lapsarianism and Intralapsarianism
I can handle. But what the hell is a Maine coon cat and what kind of knife do you skin it with? :-)
 
what the ---- is a Maine coon cat and what kind of knife do you skin it with?
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If you're trying to skin Calvin, my 15lb. raptor-kitty, you'd better use a .243 (though for obvious reasons I highly recommend against it).

If you insist on using a blade, you need quickly to realize that he has several himself and that he is highly experienced at killing living things with them.
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Moreover, I think the only even slightly successful ploy would be treachery (pretending first to be a friend, get some purring going, then . . . slice). Any direct confrontation would mean a lot of bleeding from both of you.
 
Ok Bill you stumped me. . . . lapsarianism and Intralapsarianism
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Sorry, my fault. When I wrote "lapsarianism and infralapsarianism" I meant to say "sublapsarianism and supralapsarianism." Sorry for the confusion. Hope this clears it up.
 
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