The Future of Bir Ghorka and HI

foxjaw

foxjaw

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What will be the future of Birghorka and HI with all the maoists running around Nepal now ?

Experts ?
 
Pala has pre-planned a strategic withdrawal for some months. The Maoists are at present putting their full effort into the "cause", and the government has a three month extension of their imposed emergency action. It depends on which side can outlast the other. The truce talks, from the Maoist side, were a ruse to alow them to re-group and reorganize for an all-out effort. That much is now crystal clear. The government is all but bankrupt in their effort to stop the Maoists, but are getting some heavy support, at present, and beginning to attract some attention in congress over here. The question may well be the condition Nepal is in _when_ it survives, but HI and BirGorkha will survive even if the blades someday come from Djarleeng.
 
Lets pray for them! As long as HI is around there will be top notch khukuris! You can't keep good men down!
 
There's the Maoists. Then there's Pala, the major player in Nepal, well on the downside with liver problems from years of drinking filty water and a dose of high blood pressure. Then there's me, the major player in the US, also well on the downhill side with bypass surgery and smoking 30 cigarettes per day. I don't see any ready replacements for Pala and me.

Nothing lasts forever.
 
Walosi wrote:
...but HI and BirGorkha will survive even if the blades someday come from Djarleeng.
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Hmmm...does Pala have plans to relocate HI (kamis and all) to India if worse comes to worse ? <br>
 
Uncle Bill,
We would not want to loose you!! Even excluding all of the wonderful deals that you bring to us. I feel that the part of the HI forum that is most important is how YOU bring us all together here.
There is a reason that your forum is the most active that I have seen, anywhere! Family. You bring us all together as a family. That is my favorite part here and what I would miss the most If you were ever unable to do it any longer. I am sure others could put it into words better than I, but that is how I have grown to feel here. I wish you a LOOONG and comfortable life!

Rick
 
We will have another 14 + years I'm sure! I only have 40 some khuks and I'm not even warmed up:p .

What Archangel said is true! This place IS FAMILY!!!! The support and respect we show each other here is really a great thing and most others don't share this quality! I'm proud to be a part of this fine group of brothers and sisters! It is all made possible by one great man..."Uncle" Bill Martino! When and if the day comes that we will no longer be able to purchase khukuris we all can still gather here and trade conversations and keep it alive with the knives that are already here! Family and khukuris will never die!!!!!!!!!!!

Long live H.I.!!!:D
 
The 2,500-hundred-year-old blade from Nepal has come to America. Another 3,000 isn't too much to expect :D
 
Originally posted by Bill Martino
I'm not planning on checking out anytime soon but you never know.
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Hey Uncle, take care of yourself! No more talk about checking out. Any of us could get hit by a bus at any time. In every crap game the seven eventually jumps up. But you always hope for a long ride before it does. You've got a long way to go yet.

Semp
 
It's something all of us are going to do. None of us are going to get out of this mess alive. Nothing lasts forever.

I'm easy with it. I'll die when my time's up -- not before, not after. That's how it is.

In the meantime I'll give it hell to the last second.

When I was in the ER a couple of years ago and they told me I was having a heart attack and could die I said, "Can I go outside and smoke a cigarette?" You can imagine the response I got.

But many thanks for kind words and remember I have 100+ hungry Nepalis praying for me everyday.
 
Uncle Bill, the khukuris are fine tools but the people are irreplacable. I hope see the special deals for the HI cantina on the occasion of your 100th birthday.

Some compliments are in order - the BirGorkha arrangement has to be the best program I have ever seen. The harmony of needs works so well it has gotta be ordained from above.

Andrew Limsk
 
100th birthday!!! That's too much for me.

But many thanks for kind thoughts.

Come to think of it, isn't everything "ordained from above?"
 
I see it's time to show what 2years of Spanish in College have left me:
Mis pantalones es muy feo.

I think that'll remove all doubt as to MY multi-lingual abilities:p
 
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