Kukris and Gurkhas (book)

Jens Schuetz

Jens Schuetz

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Kukris and Gurkhas by Martina Sprague
Is a book I'm reading at the moment.
It's just 90 pages and I'm halfway through.
Talks about the weapon and the soldiers in the historical and geographical context. Goes back thousands of year and covers more recent anecdotes as well. Also sheds a light on psychological effects vs actual use of Kukris in modern conflicts.
Most things can be read in this forum or Hi homepage too but it's good to have it all together in one book. Some facts were surprising too. One example was how the Gurkhas were viewed originally by the people of Nepal. Why exactly Nepal and India/ the British fought was also new to me.
A good book for people who are interested in the history of Kukris.
 
Probably unmanly but I found it in the Kindle store for just over 4 bucks. Amazon had it also. Same author has numerous other books dealing with blades, swords, different periods and cultures. I got it downloaded, can't wait to soak it in.
 
Cool. Hope you like it guys. I also used the kindle and that was the only book on Kukris there. Had to get it and turned out good. :)
I like ebooks. Everything neat in one place and very portable.
There are only a few books which I prefer on paper. Textbooks or books with big diagrams for example.
 
You might want to look again, there were at least 6 or 8 different books by that same author. All looked pretty interesting. I'm gonna read this one first before I get anymore.

Took me a spell to get used to the Kindle but I like it alot now. Quick and easy to get a new book when you need one. I tie mine shut with rusty barb wire and slashed it a little with my Pen Knife and shot a couple 45 rounds thru the cover to keep in manly.
I think I'm ok. I only read at night behind closed doors so nobody can judge me anyhow, cept I just told yall so now I guess I get to be judged anyhow. Gosh!
 
philllll said:
We don't take kindly to none of that there book learnin' 'round these parts
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iPod keeps auto correcting my fine South Indiana spelling and grammar. Those things you spoke of are insults to for fighting- Books are as precious as steel, booze, medication, and squirrel meat.
 
Squirrel Gumbo, cold beer, and a good book! Im in for that! Trade ya some Nutria rat meat for some squirrel meat. The spell check dont work for me either. When im done with a paragraph it looks like upside down Devanagari. Theres a red line under every word.
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Maybe we can set up some sort of book-squirrel meat exchange?
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Hey ndoghouse,

That R-10 is just a hair under 1 squirrel in length (not counting the tail, of course).

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Well OK that settles it then! Cant argue that! I think Pugs had a 16" ruler for scale and you got a calibrated skinned squirrel! Love it! That would be a good squirrel skinning knife come to think of it:thumbup:
 
Depends on if your wantin exact or pritnere. I'm a pritnere kind of guy myself.
 
That calibrated squirrel's a precision measurement tool! Anything but pritnere. Not so sure about the ruler though.....
 
hey, y'all - thar be an offishul simbol for pritneah. called after m' auntie 'tildy. looks a mite like this'un:

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saves a whole passel of typin' when y'all measure in pritneahs & haf to rite it down. please ignore all this if'n y'all cain't reed.

p.s. - y'all spelt pritneah funny. an yore squirrels are a tad smaller then the std. alabama tree rats. an' you gets about 25% more skin iffin y'all leave the ball sack on. or it makes a fine bakky pouch.

bawanna, how them mesures in tree rats?

p.p.s. - the local tree rats are red over heah in the UK. i blame the socialists.

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they be a tad smaller then back home too! they's ~ only 80% the size of are greys.

note the use of the auntie mark - you kin use it if y'all work for nasa in huntsville or at redstone. ie. the speed of light (c) = 671 millyun mph so yer equation is: c ~ 42,880 millyun squirrels per hour, or msh.

einstein (german for one beer mug) came up with e=mc^2 for the a-bomb. so one squirrel, ~ 1.5 lb., e ~ 1.5 X 42880000000 X 42880000000 = 2.7580416x10^21 pound squirrels squared per hour squared . i leave the trivial conversion to megatons of tnt or joules to y'all.pretty big tho. enuff to wipe out a city the size of dee-troit, if'n the liberals hadn't gone an' done thet already.

it is obvious thet one german beer mug can hold about 1 squirrel, so the measurement would be ~ the same in pound-einsteins squared/hours squared.
 
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So ifn ya leave the nut sac...er ball sac (nut sac on a squirrel is his cheeks) on a UK red squirrel then does it equal a US grey squirrel. We have very big red squirrels also. We call em Fox squirrels here in TX. There bout twice the size of grey uns here. Zweistein i reckon! Congress could use one of them squirrel bombs about now! So if i get pulled over and the sherf measures my R10 and he pulls out his lil grey squirrel then im ok? If he whups out the Fox squirrel with ball sack still on then im in a heap o trouble! My car just dont do 42,880 millyun squirrels per hour, or msh.
 
We got some of them big black Fox Squirrels around these parts. They're also about 2x the size of the grays!
 
I propose we replace all the Congress members with squirrels. Might bring the overall IQ up a bit.
 
Gosh darn I'm loving this thread. Nice to see folks talking normal. Took me 5 minutes to find my pritneah sign ~~~~~~~~
 
Politicians should be appointed based on capability. Can't have a priest leading an army or a cab driver be the foreign minister (actually happened in Germany an uneducated guy who was just aggressive and long enough in the right party ). All what counts these days is party affiliation and connections. Anyways if picking public offices based on resumes and iq tests is too elitist then pick randomly from a large pool like in old Greece. Way more fair than just letting a few individuals have a shot. As it is only ppl paid by industry can afford to run. Ppl who need to make deals with other politicians are allowed to run and so on. Are these the people you want to run your country? Will they work for you the common man or their sponsors? Kind of obvious.
In theory everybody could be president, or some of the lesser officials. But in real life there is quite a selection based on not so nice attributes such as bribability and being able to disable opposing politicians and so on.
Random drawings with limited years in office seems preferable and most democratic.
No one will be able to be in politics for 50 years no time to get dependent on other politicians lobbyist or payments by the KGB. Got a bad apple? It's fine, will be gone after 4 years unlike professional politicians who tend to stick around.
 
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