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Here are a couple of my recently acquired blades. The one in the middle is a Busse Camp Tac 7, 7 1/2” blade in infi steel. On the right is a Hudson Bay knife by David Mary, 11” of 15N20. This is from a run of 12 knives. At first it felt pretty heavy, but after hefting a couple of chopper...

There is probably an old thread on this subject, but rather than digging in the musty archives, let’s have a fresh one. The St. Crispin’s Day speech from Henry V by Private: William Shakespeare King Henry V: What’s he that wishes so? My cousin Westmoreland? No, my fair cousin: If we are...

I may be belaboring the obvious here, but during a recent hospital stay, i found myself frustrated. by my inability to visit my favorite forums on my tablet, due to the institution’s censorship software, which protects inmates from “dangerous” content. My phone worked, of course, because it...

'The very capable Kenny Jay,' a pro wrestler who gained fame for always losing, dies Before we had pervasive Metropolitan government in the Twin Cities, we had mosquito control, specifically the Five County Mosquito Control District. We also had rasslin’, the AWA, or American Wrestling...

There are a lot of nearly anonymous knife manufacturers that advertise on the net, a lot from China, quite a few from Pakistan, some others from various places around the world. Most of them are selling junk: dubious steel, stolen intellectual property, or tourist knives, originally meant to...

Until I posted The pic of the orange CL175 in another thread, I did not notice that the photo included a view of one of my Becker BK62 Kephart knives. Ethan Becker, the cookbook writer ( “Joy of Cooking”) is also a well-known knife enthusiast and designer, whose outdoor knives are manufactured...

I got a call today from Social Security. A female voice, slightly accented, told be I was being contacted for improper activity on my account and they were going to suspend my IT. For more information press 1. A moreheavily-accented male answered and asked why I called. “You called me. I’m just...

October 25 is Saint Crispin’s day, time to revisit one of the best pep talks ever. Branagh does a pretty good version. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=y1BhnepZnoo

Need I say more?

I thought for sure somebody would have posted here by now. The videos of this thing are incredible. Observers maybe a mile away are knocked over by the shock wave. The story so far is, a fire in a fireworks factory git into an adjoining building where large quantities of explosive chemicals...

You don’t have to spend a lot of money to get a high-quality knife, made in the USA, for use in camp or in the woods. This 6” Old Hickory cost $19.99 direct from the manufacturer, with the sheath. The blade is 1095 carbon steel with a saber grind. This knife is a recent issue from Ontario Knife...

At a gas stop on a motorbike trip, out on a lake fishing, a bag of Twizzlers is always welcome. For some reason, though, I never buy them for home consumption. Well, almost never. Usually, I prefer black licorice to any other variety, but with Twizzlers, only the red ones will do. Who else...

...she is in over her head. Pat Sajak is out this week for surgery or something, so Vanna is emceeing in his place, while Mickey and Minnie Mouse turn the letters. Vanna hits all her marks, but her delivery is at the same time a bit wooden and over-ebullient. The effect is not unlike one of...

This afternoon when I went over to the Moon Bar to watch the Vikings, a knife like this one was lying, open, on the bar. I laughed. The rest of my response is contained in the thread title. Just then, my boy came in, “Well, Pop, since you have seen it, I might as well give you your birthday...

For a number of days, we have been awaitting the sentencing for this guy who shot a school bus driver after a very minor collision on the freeway: St. Paul man gets 7 years for shooting school bus driver after I-35W crash – Twin Cities Reading to the end of the story, I was astonished to find...

Magnum P.I. or Foyle’s War. I am talking about the Weeks sisters, of course.

On this afternoon’s Aardvark* bus, two fifth graders, Kyle* and Addie*, already assigned to front seats for transgressions that antedate my tenure there: Addie: “Bus Driver, Kyle keeps doing something inappropriate.” Me: “What is Kyle doing that is inappropriate?” Addie: “I don’t even want to...

The Packers and Chiefs have been trading punches in one of the most entertaining games of the season. Rodgers has been doing his magic, but the journeyman who is subbing for Mahomes is keeping pace. Right now, the Pack is up 31-24, but that is not likely to be the final score. Watching the...

A low-carb lutefisk dinner: A. Does not exist B. Is an ironic misnomer for The King of Church-Basement Suppers.

Best known for his role in Blade Runner as the menacing and lethal replicant, Roy Batty. YouTube His Germanic sneer usually got him cast as a heavy, but he played at least one memorable good guy as a fighter in the Dutch resistance iin Soldier of Orange.