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lambertiana

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Last night I once again had the opportunity to show the sheeple that I carry tools, not weapons. I was at a buffet dinner with the wife and they served up large pieces of beef and chicken but did not supply knives. Of the knives that I had on me I chose the calypso jr ltwt because my wife could already see it clipped in my pocket (she just has no appreciation for the need to carry more than one knife). After I cut my meat up and my wife's, we passed it around to the other five people at our table, who were all very grateful. One even commented on how nice the knife was. It's amazing how people can say "Now why would you need to carry a knife?", and they are the first to want to use mine!

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Die Entropie der Welt strebt einem Maximum zu - R.J.E. Clausius
 
Your point is well taken, but I can't help but wonder if you had presented each of those 5 people with a knife if they might not have been even more impressed?? No, maybe you handled it right.

(Kinda reminds me of an ancient joke about a public speaker who forgot his dentures, and this guy at the head table kept pulling out one pair after another til one fit. Afterwards, after profusely thanking the man, the speaker said he assumed the man was a dentist. No, he replied, he was an undertaker.)

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Asi es la vida

Bugs
 
Bugs3x, that's an awful joke. Lambertiana, I know the point you made very personally. Was having lunch with some friends and we wanted to split up this really delicate pastry desert. No knives (we were at a Chinese restaurant) and using chopsticks to "cut" it would absolutely ruin it. Whipped out my Gerber Paul II and divided up that pastry so nicely. And the polished chrome look of the blade was just perfect for the setting. They all commented how beautiful it looked.

But for a Spydie story, we need to look a little more recently to a couple of days before May 1st. Some guys were putting up a poster to make people aware of the M1 S11 protest march happening on May 1st. They were having trouble cutting the sticking tape because they used this variety with fibres running length wise. They were trying to cut it with a pen of all things!! Being ever helpful, I offered to cut the tape. They accepted my help and I whipped out my Spydie Endura. They of course thanked me and commented on how useful the knife was, etc. I wonder how they would have felt if I told them all about how big the Spydie industry is and that their march would be against manufacturers like Spydie. And now that I think about it, I'm sure the tape they were using was from 3M. *sigh* outwardly they want to be bad assed about multinationals and larger corporations, but really, they still haven't weaned themselves off their dependance.
 
I think you definitly acted right in just presenting one knife.
Actually I've made the experience that even people who borrow my knives ask me why I carry them. Which often leaves me speechless.

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Seek simplicity, and distrust it.
Whitehead, Alfred North (1861 - 1947)
 
Good story....teach 'em one at a time.


Bugs....that joke was awful (
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) I vote Buggsy shouldn't be allowed to tell any more jokes.
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~Greg Mete~
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I used my Spydie Goddard Ltwt. in the middle of class to carve an apple and all the teacher asked was if I brought enough for everyone.
Good to see there are still some "non-knife" people out there that aren't scared off by public (peaceful) knife use.

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A few years ago, I was at a Quaker potluck and someone had brought a lovely country cured ham. They had a carving knife and had sliced it, but nobody except me had a pocket knife, and mune was a Spyderco Police(!). You can guess the looks that I got when I pulled it out, thumbed it open, and washed the blade off with some water from a pitcher poured onto a paper napkin. At least I didn't flick it or do a Spyderco drop! In any case, it was not too long before the others were asking to borrow it. The only problem was it was, and is, quite sharp and the plates were disposable paper. I did warn them to be careful. I have developed quite a reputation among my Quaker F(f)riends for my knife carrying. As Jim March commented when he heard that I had bought a Sifu, "A Quaker with a Sifu, be afraid, be very afraid."

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Walk in the Light,
Hugh Fuller
 
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