Labor Day Giveaway! (WINNER CHOSEN!)

I'm in please. Everytime I see the green scales my mind thinks there is a Skoal shield there somewhere. Looks like a nice knife. Thanks for the chance. Happy Labor day!
 
I’m in!! I was just waiting to get home to snag a picture of a relative...
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I'd like to join this GAW thanks for your generosity :)
I have a lot of stories to tell and you didn't say it had to be knife-related so I'll add one of my geekier tales.

True story. I deal with a lot of test scripts where I work. In my career in the aerospace industry, I have probably been responsible for well over 100,000 scripts and countless millions lines of code. When it comes to naming conventions, it can sometimes be a challenge so we come up with ways to make it a little easier to deal with. For example, for a communications payload unit we would split up the name of the test script into the power bus, the type of unit and then the frequency band that unit operates at. So you would see scripts that looked something like B_TWTA_KA (a Ka-Band TWTA on power bus B) or A_DC_C (a C-Band DownConverter on power bus A). Well, one spacecraft had a Ku-Band UpConverter on power bus F and I didn't realize what the script name looked like until I had it up on the screen presenting to a room full of people...and there it was.
The F_UC_KU script. I was mortified at the time but we did get a good chuckle out of it...and I can definitely laugh about it now.

Hope that isn't too offensive for the porch I am ex-Navy sorry :)
 
waverave said:
I'd like to join this GAW thanks for your generosity :)
I have a lot of stories to tell and you didn't say it had to be knife-related so I'll add one of my geekier tales.

True story. I deal with a lot of test scripts where I work. In my career in the aerospace industry, I have probably been responsible for well over 100,000 scripts and countless millions lines of code. When it comes to naming conventions, it can sometimes be a challenge so we come up with ways to make it a little easier to deal with. For example, for a communications payload unit we would split up the name of the test script into the power bus, the type of unit and then the frequency band that unit operates at. So you would see scripts that looked something like B_TWTA_KA (a Ka-Band TWTA on power bus B) or A_DC_C (a C-Band DownConverter on power bus A). Well, one spacecraft had a Ku-Band UpConverter on power bus F and I didn't realize what the script name looked like until I had it up on the screen presenting to a room full of people...and there it was.
The F_UC_KU script. I was mortified at the time but we did get a good chuckle out of it...and I can definitely laugh about it now.

Hope that isn't too offensive for the porch I am ex-Navy sorry :)
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Now that was funny stuff :D
 
Time’s running out! Any more interest? A winner will be chosen on Monday. :D
 
I’m in, have several of the typical brown handled/nickel bolstered Old Timers, but never a green handled/brass bolster model. Thanks for the nice GAW. OH
 
I'm in, thanks.
I have an oldtimer medium stockman that I carry. It is a 'replacement' for my first pocket knife as a child... an old timer medium stockman that another child stole out of my coat in the 4th grade ( back then, teachers did not seem to care that we carried pocket knives at school).
 
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