Lost and found knives and a moral quandary

r8shell said:
Here is my cat Echo, in one of her favorite spots: under the leaves of a sago palm plant in my yard. She will nap in its shade on a warm day, and enjoy its cover as a hunting blind, convinced one day a squirrel will stroll by.



Do I hope she brings more? What would you do?
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This is the right answer, of course. ;)

Here is our cat, waiting for a knife to drop.

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I was going to ask how far the closest Whataburger was from your house, and suggest maybe she picked the knife up there, but I see the cat's already out of the bag. :rolleyes:
 
T. Erdelyi said:
Who remembers this 4/1 debacle BladeForums.com is becoming part of the Google+ team and will become GoogleKnife! :eek:? Over the many years there have been many great pranks, seems that over the years the pranksters have been thinning out. Maybe that's a good thing, false sense of security, it makes 'em ripe for next year.
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Yes, I remember that! Feathers were ruffled that day!


I was kinda nervous when I did that What-a-Burger joke, afraid someone would spend all day driving around looking for a What-a-Knife and be angry. Then last year, no one believed that my Thuya wood Boker Whittler had sprouted and grown roots. :D

For the record, Echo is innocent...


of this offense, anyway.


 
Echo is way too small to carry a knife without a bail! Now my Maine Coon at 19 lbs can do it, he just never sees the need to carry a knife.
 
hahahaha well played! got me for a min but they looked too clean in the pic. cute cat, thanks for the laugh. and i remember the google knife year, that got me too....till i realized what day it was
 
I like the name Echo, we had an orange tabby, when the Mrs first moved in with me before we were married we had a pair of cat we rescued, mine was Norton, named after my motorcycle andher's was Holly named for the time of the year we rescued them. that same summer someone catnapped Holly as she was a beautiful long haired cat. The following year we moved to the farm with Norton and began the hoarding of cats. Seriously though, people would drive onto the property all hours and drop off cats like we were a shelter. Within 18 months we had 20 cats and Norton had some serious competition vying for the harem and eventually relinquished the throne and just took who he wanted while the other males were too busy fighting for the title of king.

My point is and I do have a point I just never learned what a straight line was, I always liked the roundabout way. I guess that's why Olive in the country where there are no straight roads. You know you'll get there and sometimes it takes a little while but you always see something interesting on the back country roads. Like my point, which was ...

Norton still managed to leave his mark amongst the feminine felines, every breeding season there was always one unmistakable orange cat in a litter, like the ginger haired kid in the family of dark haired siblings. So to recognize this we named the first orange kitten that looked like Norton, Ditto :) he looked like another version of Nor on so Ditto made sense.

Next round of kittens and another orange cat so we named him Xerox because he was like another copy. :)

Again we had some other litters another orange kitty and we named him CC for carbon copy, at this point there were more orange cats poppin' up every litter we just abandoned the copy naming theme. :) when we left the farm we had about 30 cats and countless chickens by that point we had become very adept at naming cats and even havin' a common theme to link the litters too.

Like the President theme, Nixon, Truman, Kennedy, Regan and Ford or the boros of NY theme, Manny, Queeny, Bronx and Brooklyn, then the canybar themes and the holiday themes. Every cat had a name.

Oh yea my point... I never thought of using Echo, if it was appropriate would you mind if I named our next cat Echo? I know you can never predict the name of a pet you've never met but I can at least keep it on the shelf to toss out when the suggestions are bein' tossed out.

Here she is, she's eying up the fob on the Lone Wolf/Loveless City Knifeworks ;) :) .
 
Sure, Ted. You can use the name. I'm sure Echo won't mind, on account of she's a cat. ;)
I named her brother Victor, so I get the concept of themed names. If I ever have three cats, they'll be Whiskey, Tango, and Foxtrot. :D


black mamba said:
This is the right answer, of course. ;)

Here is our cat, waiting for a knife to drop.

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That is a beautiful cat!


To bring this back to knife discussion:

What do y'all think of that Queen City Equal End Jack? I borrowed it from a friend because I had to use a knife that I hadn't posted here before. I've been trying to get him to trade or sell it to me, but I don't think he'll part with it and I don't blame him. I think what makes it so unusual and beautiful is that the bone is very thick and rounded. Like a robusto cigar. I know a lot of people like a slim carry, but this one feels so good in hand, I wish GEC would do something like this on one of their equal end patterns.



Is this a good day to discuss this year's Forum Knife? :D
 
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R8shell, I like the equal end jack, and also prefer rounded covers . . . as long as they're not too fat.
As is so often the case, medium is just about right.
 
r8shell said:
Sure, Ted. You can use the name. I'm sure Echo won't mind, on account of she's a cat. ;)
I named her brother Victor, so I get the concept of themed names. If I ever have three cats, they'll be Whiskey, Tango, and Foxtrot. :D
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We have four. Angus, Beau, Candy, and Daisy. 22 letters of the alphabet left.

I would like to learn your method of training the cat in knife retrieval. Do you have a newsletter?
 
You had me going, Rachel! Nice work!!:thumbup:

Echo should become a member here on BF!:D
 
But it COULD be true! There's more than a grain of truth in all this, humour day aside.....:eek:

Here's my monster Pipp the house Tigress taken only a couple of days after her getting 'fixed' operation. She threw that operation off within hours.:D Lately she's taken to retrieving all manner of stuff: carrots turn up all over the place (I think she's feeding the spirit of a late house rabbit) and don't leave your wristwatch unguarded. The ones with a leather strap are great fun to run off with or 'kill' :cool:

I remember when I was a kid, my mother telling this story about some 'dysfunctional family' living nearby, they were friendly enough and not rowdy but let's say they had an unfortunate tendency to 'find' other peoples' property...:D but no, it wasn't them who brought home a valuable diamond ring it was the cat in her paws! Yeah, right, but wait a minute......:confused:

Mine does like to have a go at my smaller knives, so it's not beyond the realms of possibility. Please Pipp, find me a c19th Sheffield Norfolk, Stag please:)

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I think you're off the hook here, pretty positive the pussy purloined the jack. Interrogate the cat, if you get no answers keep the knife for safe keeping and keep an eye on the cat. Petty theft is a gateway to bigger things like armed robbery of an armored car.
 
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