Why my villager is the bomb

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Okay. I'll steal Tom Marker's thunder by posting this, I know, but I GOTTA do it.

We recently went camping, and a pretty decent display of HI Khuks went with us (yes, there are pictures. Tom?). My still-infirm villager (read recent posts about hedge rows and kitchens) went along, more of moral support than actual utility (Tom's AK was doing the real work). But of course the Villager got to limb a few trees and split a few boards. Good clean fun with large blades.

Then it happened. I discovered why the Villager- Ugly Duckling, unimpressive looking, stout and indestructable, first HI khuk I owned- is the perfect knife for me.

Its not the fact that it was hand crafted by masters in Nepal practicing a most ancient art.

Its not the fact that it was conveyed to the USA by a person concerned about quality, custom and tradition.

Its not the fact that it can chew through nails and emerge almost completely unscathed.

Its not the fact that it looks like the A-10 of the knife world- not an ounce on looks, baby, but tough as a rock.

Oh no.

YOU CAN USE THE CHO TO OPEN BEER BOTTLES.

Oh yeah. Life...is good.

Mike


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"A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects." -Robert Heinlein
 
I can tell you Uncle Bill's response up front:

It don't matter if it wasn't a Heineken!

Now, should it have been a Heineken, I'm sure Bill will have Sgt. Karka explain to the kamis the significance of the "beer" puja to those in the service. Then again from Uncle Bill's latest posts, the Sarkis may well be more likely to understand it's significance than the kamis.

So do we pronounce BirGorkha:

a) bur as in fur; or
b) beer as in here.

What say you august and wise teacher, ( or are you already into the hootch and singing the ballad of "Deadeye Dick and Eskimo Nell" and other songs to raunchy to be permitted outside of locker rooms and the most scrofulous bars only a sailor would enter? ).
 
Mike, looks like you beat me to the punch..

Pictures should get developed sometime this week, interested to see the pics of oranges being thrown and sliced by a sirupati (the 3 pound AK just didn't perform that well for some reason)

It should be noted that only Mike's villager had the proper cho for opening a beer bottle. Maybe BirGorkha needs to get their priorities straightened out ASAP
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Yeah, there were 5 khukuris that went on the trip, and only the villager could be used to open beer bottles- unless the somewhat more crude "HULK-SMASH!" technique was to be employed. I was just sitting there fiddling around when I recalled WrongFriend (or was it Mohd?) joking that the odd chos on the master-Kumar collaboration Khukuri could possibly open bottles. What the heck? Might as well give it a shot. And wouldn't you know it, two seconds later my icy cold Anchor Steam was open and I had discovered just how wonderful my Villager is.
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And BTW, I pronounced it 'BeerGorkha' prior to this monumental discovery.
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Mike

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"A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects." -Robert Heinlein
 
Hmm ... should we tell the kamis we want chos that can open beer bottles? I'm sure they can do them all that way if we tell them that's what we want ... and they could have a lot of fun testing the chos at the end of a day's work....

You know, there's a lot of controversy over what the "cho" or "Mediterranian notch" or "Spanish notch" is for. Some say it has religious significance (but they don't agree on just what it symbolizes; there are a number of theories about that), some say it's for trapping an opponent's blade in a fight, some say it's to make sharpening easier, some say it's just decorative, there's even a theory it's for prying percussion caps off the nipple of a rifle.... If HI starts making them to open beer bottles, though, likely everybody else will do the same, and a thousand years from now there won't be any disagreement about what the cho is for; everybody will know it's for opening beer bottles ... then some archaeologist will dig up an very old knife with a different-shaped cho and prove that beer bottles and caps must have been different in antique times ... a whole science of deducing primitive beer bottle designs from analysis of the chos used to open them will develop ... hundreds of scientists will make careers out of it -- we HAVE to do it -- for the sake of future generations!

-Cougar :{)
 
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