SALTY
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For my 1000th post, I thought I would share my thoughts about "you people."
I choose that word deliberately because of it's non-PC acceptance; we've gotten PC crazy in this country and it will be an element of our ruination if we ignore it.
But YOU PEOPLE are some of the nicest, honest and friendliest folk I have had the pleasure of interacting with in just about any forum, and I don't mean internet forum; I mean forum as in life setting.
Chris and Anne Reeve, Chuck Buck ... true salt of the earth people who just happen to be in the knife biz. Mike, Spark, the people at Busse, Will at Camillus, Sal Glesser, they don't just extend their courtesies and share their knowlege because it's good business; they do it because they're good folk.
My tastes change and I have wound up buying and selling (more buying than selling) knives on the FS/T board. Some deals were better than others but I have never had a bad deal and have never been stuck by a fellow Forumite. I've met some of the nicest people though trading knives and that's the truth.
I am into a lot of things and move in many different circles, but you people around here are the most eager to help, eager to share and eager to inform that I think I have ever met - ever! Even stupid little things like learning how to use italics and bold was because I asked (off Board) a fellow Forumite and he quickly replied with the what-where-when intel dump.
I've learned so much from people who say "I was new once too, here's what others shared with me and what I've learned since ... and BTW, here's where you can readily access data." You people do not seem like the type who look down there nose and condescendingly haze the FNG and tell him to figure it out on his own. In other walks of life, insecure people hoard there seeming knowlege and doll it out stingily, or erroneously, just to maintain their self appointed edge. Not here, you people don't do that.
I've met, albeit electronically or through Priority Mail, doctors, lawyers, butchers, bakers, candle-stick makers, pharmacists, rich, poor, Southern, Northern, white collar, blue collar, no collar and been collared though this place. You people are some of the nicest people around.
[This message has been edited by Nimrod (edited 05-06-2001).]
[This message has been edited by Nimrod (edited 05-06-2001).]
I choose that word deliberately because of it's non-PC acceptance; we've gotten PC crazy in this country and it will be an element of our ruination if we ignore it.
But YOU PEOPLE are some of the nicest, honest and friendliest folk I have had the pleasure of interacting with in just about any forum, and I don't mean internet forum; I mean forum as in life setting.
Chris and Anne Reeve, Chuck Buck ... true salt of the earth people who just happen to be in the knife biz. Mike, Spark, the people at Busse, Will at Camillus, Sal Glesser, they don't just extend their courtesies and share their knowlege because it's good business; they do it because they're good folk.
My tastes change and I have wound up buying and selling (more buying than selling) knives on the FS/T board. Some deals were better than others but I have never had a bad deal and have never been stuck by a fellow Forumite. I've met some of the nicest people though trading knives and that's the truth.
I am into a lot of things and move in many different circles, but you people around here are the most eager to help, eager to share and eager to inform that I think I have ever met - ever! Even stupid little things like learning how to use italics and bold was because I asked (off Board) a fellow Forumite and he quickly replied with the what-where-when intel dump.
I've learned so much from people who say "I was new once too, here's what others shared with me and what I've learned since ... and BTW, here's where you can readily access data." You people do not seem like the type who look down there nose and condescendingly haze the FNG and tell him to figure it out on his own. In other walks of life, insecure people hoard there seeming knowlege and doll it out stingily, or erroneously, just to maintain their self appointed edge. Not here, you people don't do that.
I've met, albeit electronically or through Priority Mail, doctors, lawyers, butchers, bakers, candle-stick makers, pharmacists, rich, poor, Southern, Northern, white collar, blue collar, no collar and been collared though this place. You people are some of the nicest people around.
[This message has been edited by Nimrod (edited 05-06-2001).]
[This message has been edited by Nimrod (edited 05-06-2001).]
