Cougar Allen
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P.S. I meant "war stories" metaphorically, not necessarily stories about literal war.
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You Know You're a Knife Knut When . . .
- Thread starter David Rock
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fracmeister
Petroleum Engineer
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Sadly, I learned I was a knife nut when the judge gave us a two hour break and my first thought was ...whew, now I can go check blade auction to see if I have won that DA SOCOM.
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Dances with lemmings
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Dances with lemmings
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. . . when you add to this thread just to bring it back to the top.
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- JKM
www.chaicutlery.com
AKTI Member # SA00001
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- JKM
www.chaicutlery.com
AKTI Member # SA00001
...when your friends go to you instead of the knife store for info
...when you're up posting something like this at 1:40 am
...when you've actually read all these posts
Thanks for bringing this up to the top James - it's always a fun one to go back over
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JP Bullivant
...when you're up posting something like this at 1:40 am
...when you've actually read all these posts
Thanks for bringing this up to the top James - it's always a fun one to go back over
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JP Bullivant
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When this thread keeps being resurrected and you continue to read it!
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When you notice this has to be the oldest active thread. Goto bed Danny
What time is it in the Phillipines? Alaska is 4 hours diffent than the BF clock.
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"A knifeless man is a lifeless man"
-Nordic proverb
[This message has been edited by David Williams (edited 02 August 1999).]
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"A knifeless man is a lifeless man"
-Nordic proverb
[This message has been edited by David Williams (edited 02 August 1999).]
you know your a knife nut when you are reading BladeForums.com at 2 am in the morning...
like me!
yikes,
Larry
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like me!
yikes,
Larry
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You are a knifenutt when,
before BF: accumulated length of all your knives OAL surpasses your height.
after BF : accumulated length of all your knives BLADE length surpasses your height.
How long with yours?
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\(^o^)/ Mizutani Satoshi \(^o^)/
before BF: accumulated length of all your knives OAL surpasses your height.
after BF : accumulated length of all your knives BLADE length surpasses your height.
How long with yours?
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\(^o^)/ Mizutani Satoshi \(^o^)/
When people from other commands come to find the guy who knows how to sharpen knives.
When your on a NAVY ship for one day and five people(who you never met) ask you to sharpen their knives.
You try to convince your procurement officer that 45 Randall #15's are required for your test aircraft- You only have 40 pilots and 5 guys in your shop, and you almost convince him that ivory is really durable, and inexpensive
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when your legs are smoother than your wife's
When you wake up to here your son crying late at night and you unconciuosly use your EK #3 as a can opener,fill the bottle, wash off knife, sharpen knife and go to sleep, and not realize what you did till next morning.
Your house could burn to the ground with most of your knives and you could sell the knives in your car to support your family for a month...
Your Testors modeling knife goes dull half way through the project your building and you sharpen it to a better than factory edge.
You hear this at knife stores-"Hey there's that guy that I told you about."
Knife store employees know which knives you've seen already.
People at your work worry about you.
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PRIGGER
When your on a NAVY ship for one day and five people(who you never met) ask you to sharpen their knives.
You try to convince your procurement officer that 45 Randall #15's are required for your test aircraft- You only have 40 pilots and 5 guys in your shop, and you almost convince him that ivory is really durable, and inexpensive
when your legs are smoother than your wife's
When you wake up to here your son crying late at night and you unconciuosly use your EK #3 as a can opener,fill the bottle, wash off knife, sharpen knife and go to sleep, and not realize what you did till next morning.
Your house could burn to the ground with most of your knives and you could sell the knives in your car to support your family for a month...
Your Testors modeling knife goes dull half way through the project your building and you sharpen it to a better than factory edge.
You hear this at knife stores-"Hey there's that guy that I told you about."
Knife store employees know which knives you've seen already.
People at your work worry about you.
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PRIGGER
When you meet the girl for the first time that's going to become your wife and she says "Oh, you're the one with the knives."
When you teach her how to flip a butterfly knife and it turns both of you on.
When your favorite activity on the weekends is to go up into the mountains and after dark all your friends and yourself hunt each other with Rubber knives.
Zog
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For reality as we have it is only one of many possible realities; it is not inevitable, not arbitrary, it bears within itself other possibilities.
-M. Bakhtin
When you teach her how to flip a butterfly knife and it turns both of you on.
When your favorite activity on the weekends is to go up into the mountains and after dark all your friends and yourself hunt each other with Rubber knives.
Zog
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For reality as we have it is only one of many possible realities; it is not inevitable, not arbitrary, it bears within itself other possibilities.
-M. Bakhtin
Daniel Dorn
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You know you're a knife nut if you've ever had someone time you on your draw to compare auto's with one-hand openers.
- You've never seen a knife which you couldn't have improved
- Bonus points if you actually started to improve a knife
- Bingo if you succeeded
- Life can't have a nobler purpose than the search for the perfect knife (which you fear might not exist)
- On the other hand you are afraid of finding the perfect knife because your life would become meaningless
- A movie with a folder in it is a good movie
- A movie with a fixed blade in it is a very good movie
- The best movies are Samurai movies
- The stuff you baught after you watched "Crocodile Dundee" became bigger and looked like Bowie knives, which you tried to wear it in the small of your back for a while.
- After watching "Rambo" you wondered how you could ever get by without a ProjectI (the fees for the gym you originally wanted to join went into more knives to compensate for the lack of muscles)
- You sit at the counter in Japanese restaurants to watch the chef cutting the fish
- After you walk out of the restaurant you don't remember what you ate or if you ate at all, but can describe each minor detail of the knives the chef used and your collection field get's increased by right side chisel ground tanto blades.
- Your wife can't use the stove anymore after you started your "Little Kydex Sheath Project".
- Before you seriously got into sharpening you'd never thought that plastic bathroom sinks are so sensitive to abrasives like sandpaper and diamond hones
- You actually managed to wear out a diamond hone (I did!)
- From the neighbor table in a restaurant you pick up the words "Mad Dog" and your eyes drop down to the knives they are using. After being disappointed that they use the restaurant bladeware, you realise they are talking about their neighbors pet.
- You buy Japanese knife magazines, even though you can't read a word of it.
- You get your wife to translate it for you.
- Bonus if your wife points at one you also like and says "This is a nice one"!
- You know you found your dream wife if she thinks that the $300 for it is not too much (which it actually isn't)
- You like watches but can never afford the one you really like because each time you almost have the sum you see another knife you "just gotta have".
- You not only know what and where famous forum member carry their knives, they have been to your place to show you how they deploy them.
- You get a kick out of carrying several thousands in handmade folders through customs without a problem and hearing about someone paying toll for two bottles of booze and a couple of cigars.
You still have a long way to go if you think that:
- Stellite is what is used to spy on Russians
- Talonite is the Kryptonite for Batman
- Kydex a laxative
- G10 a vitamin
- MirageX a warplane
- Concealex a drain cleaner
- ATS-34 a motor oil
- Sebenza a German mustard
- You still need an excuse to carry or buy another knife
- Bonus points if you actually started to improve a knife
- Bingo if you succeeded
- Life can't have a nobler purpose than the search for the perfect knife (which you fear might not exist)
- On the other hand you are afraid of finding the perfect knife because your life would become meaningless
- A movie with a folder in it is a good movie
- A movie with a fixed blade in it is a very good movie
- The best movies are Samurai movies
- The stuff you baught after you watched "Crocodile Dundee" became bigger and looked like Bowie knives, which you tried to wear it in the small of your back for a while.
- After watching "Rambo" you wondered how you could ever get by without a ProjectI (the fees for the gym you originally wanted to join went into more knives to compensate for the lack of muscles)
- You sit at the counter in Japanese restaurants to watch the chef cutting the fish
- After you walk out of the restaurant you don't remember what you ate or if you ate at all, but can describe each minor detail of the knives the chef used and your collection field get's increased by right side chisel ground tanto blades.
- Your wife can't use the stove anymore after you started your "Little Kydex Sheath Project".
- Before you seriously got into sharpening you'd never thought that plastic bathroom sinks are so sensitive to abrasives like sandpaper and diamond hones
- You actually managed to wear out a diamond hone (I did!)
- From the neighbor table in a restaurant you pick up the words "Mad Dog" and your eyes drop down to the knives they are using. After being disappointed that they use the restaurant bladeware, you realise they are talking about their neighbors pet.
- You buy Japanese knife magazines, even though you can't read a word of it.
- You get your wife to translate it for you.
- Bonus if your wife points at one you also like and says "This is a nice one"!
- You know you found your dream wife if she thinks that the $300 for it is not too much (which it actually isn't)
- You like watches but can never afford the one you really like because each time you almost have the sum you see another knife you "just gotta have".
- You not only know what and where famous forum member carry their knives, they have been to your place to show you how they deploy them.
- You get a kick out of carrying several thousands in handmade folders through customs without a problem and hearing about someone paying toll for two bottles of booze and a couple of cigars.
You still have a long way to go if you think that:
- Stellite is what is used to spy on Russians
- Talonite is the Kryptonite for Batman
- Kydex a laxative
- G10 a vitamin
- MirageX a warplane
- Concealex a drain cleaner
- ATS-34 a motor oil
- Sebenza a German mustard
- You still need an excuse to carry or buy another knife