Weekend Open Thread: Combustion Inflation Conflagration Edition

H. Clay Aalders
Weekend Open Thread
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Greetings and Salutations. We have made it to Friday once again, and therefor Weekend Open Thread Time.

Heat Wave and Gas Price Memes were a common sight this week. I wonder why?

What a difference a year and a half makes.

Never Forget.

As always I reiterate my disdain for that movie.

Check your Privilege.

Gas is too expensive to even run an outboard.

More romantic than Home Depot anyway.

RIP Chris Farley. The Hurlehy Boy was one of the best SNL sketches ever.

Not sure which is more disconcerting, the OCD angle or the fact thtat the gas was only just over $4/gallon

As we mentioned last week, large knife shows are on a bit of a hiatus. Check the KNIFE Magazine Events Calendar for the latest.

Of course it is hot as Hades across most of the country. But I think I will save most of those memes for next week’s theme. It is supposed to be another scorcher.

Most but not all…

That is pretty Hot.

It will be hot this coming week as well. I will be dropping my daughter off at lacrosse camp in Asheville next week. I will be sticking around for a couple of days to fish, visit Sport Hansa (importer for Helle, Lagioule Henry Durand, Hults Bruk axes, and more), and hang out with a couple of fraternity brother’s, and then push on to Greenville to visit Dan Eastland and do some trail work on his hunting property. I considered bringing the camper, but the heat is telling me to hammock it.At least we can jump in the river regularly to cool off.

As for our weekly drawing, since Stuart declined the Gerber Downwind Caper because he won another drawing recently (it had been more than a week so technically he was eligible. So now Mark R. is our winner, and we will begin to draw for “tokens” toward the Red Horse Knife Works Hell Razor. Unless Mark wants a first token towards the Red Horse.

The first time you are drawn you get a “token” and we move on to the next week. First person to be drawn for a second time will be the winner.

Usual rules apply. Up to 5 comments or replies count as your entries. If you are new to the blog, your comments will be held in moderation until I can approve it. You will free to comment at will from that point on.

There are a lot of non-themed memes, so I am going to let them rip.

L’Otters beware.

Truth.

This really is me.

I found the best thing to do is set a second alarm for 10 minutes after the first. That way it goes off just one minute after I hit snooze a second time.At least it works for me.

Speaking of sleep…

Going to sleep and sleeping are two different things.

Last of the sleep themed memes. I promise.

This is true…

Related…

Netherlands and Luxembourg are the same way.

I will follow a “Yo Mamma Joke” with a bad pickup line…

…and a bad dad joke.

 

Wa-wah…

Someone should have warned us.

Surely I won’t be launching into a series of Get off my Lawn memes…

And stop calling me Shirley.

I love when a meme’s theme is stolen and reimagined.

Fruit Bigot.

Happens all the time. Usually when I am emailing a company rep.

Finish Zir.

Effing Cyan.

At least it isn’t Murder.

(*rimshot)

Not Suitable for Work.

Any Poles who can give us a judges ruling?

Is that a thing? Growing up in Cleveland I had greater than average exposure to East European culture, but this one is new to me.

Yeah. Probably a good idea.

Have a good one all. I will continue to save the world, one meme at a time.

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H. Clay Aalders

H. Clay Aalders is a lifelong edged tool user. He spent the past 20 years as a woodworker and fishing guide in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Idaho, and Tennessee. While guiding in Idaho, Clay worked part-time writing for a local newspaper, and upon moving to Tennessee began writing for the blog The Truth About Knives - spending his last 5 years there as Managing Editor. His background is in fixed-blade hunting and bushcraft knives, but has jumped into the world of vintage slipjoint collecting with both feet since coming to work at Knife Magazine. Clay’s primary role is as Digital Editor, curating and creating new content for our website and blog, as well as maintaining the Knife Magazine social media accounts (FB/IG: @theknifemag, Twitter: @knifemagazine). He is also a contributor and Associate Editor of the print magazine.

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  1. this goes here. huge scotus decision concerning may/ shall issue. thomas even went beyond strict scrutiny to history and meaning.

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  2. Early morning, no coffee, the above was a response to Hocky’s question on the other thread about Schrades!

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  3. Yes indeed Hocky, wondered if you found a few good rabbit holes to explore, sounds like your adventures with Popeye & Wimpy and Olive Oyl were exciting! Not to mention “Jed”, such a great show. All this reminds me of Saturday morning fun on KVOS-TV! Think they even had the wrasslin on? One day at a knife show in Vancouver this bear of a guy came up and said hello. His paws were exactly the size of a large grizzly. He was very soft spoken, said he had started making knives and would like to stop by my shop sometime. I said sure, then he mentioned his name, Don Leo Jonathan, immediately I remembered watching him, Haystack Calhoun, and so many others on Saturday mornings. And he did drive up to the Interior to spend time in my shop. Life is so cool sometimes! Like you said, “Enjoying the knife life.” Doesn’t get any better than that!

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    1. In the early ’60s, the wrestling would come to Hagerstown. An arena would be set up at the Memorial Stadium. I saw Bruno Sanmartino, The Flying Argentinian, Gorilla Monsoon and most of all I remember Bobo Brazil. The crowd loved him cause he was a good guy! The “dirty” wrestler, whose name I do not remember, pulled sandpaper across Bobo’s eyes! Bobo threw his ugly ass out of the ring!! Then, here came the midgets . . .

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      1. Hocky – it was around Aug 2014. I ended up with a few of their fixed blades from that time, mostly in 1095, cheap and chunky, but they worked

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      2. Hockey- Watched Houston Wrestling with my grandfather Friday night’s as a kid. Moved to north Texas only o find out that the Houston bad guys were the DFW good guys and vice versa! Only exception was The Spoiler. He was a bad guy everywhere!.

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      3. Gene Kiniski could kick some butt too, same with Kinji Shibuya, then came the Hart family dynasty!

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  4. “Willie, ????, Chong and Snoop” . . . I should know the bandanna-head at 11 o’clock. Can’t remember s – – – !

    Buddy Ebsen: “Jed”, “Barnaby” . . . a wise man.

    “Choose Your Weppin”, 1935. The action is set at “Popeye’s Pawn Shop”. Popeye & Olive Oyl have knives. Olive displays knife tricks off various parts of her body . . . including her butt! Outside the shop, Wimpy has a well-dressed prisoner handcuffed to his wrist. Wimpy is distracted by a “hamburger” and the prisoner uses a skeleton key to escape. Entering the shop, he hefts a six-pack of steak knives and asks Olive for $10. Olive offers him “50 cents”. The crook is confronted by Popeye. He plucks a hair from the con’s head and tries to cut it cross-wise . . . no edge – the hair droops. In a ‘Fantasia’ moment, the six steak knives grow faces and talk! Popeye and the crook have a saber vs. sword fight . . . the crook is winning, until . . . Olive tosses a No. 10 can of spinach to Popeye. The magic happens as Popeye is strengthened and the sword is “hardened” allowing Popeye to lop off pieces of saber blade like a hot knife through butter! Popeye socks the guy on the chin, through the window and onto the sidewalk where the handcuff re-attaches to his wrist and Wimpy is none the wiser.

    Washington Street Pawnshop – Kershaw 1660G, Ken Onion design, Made in the USA: 14C28N. This “golden Leek” called my name. Interesting fact: “Texas Tool Crafters” in Conroe, TX did the gold-plate. This outfit did gold-plating for Leatherman, too. Going down the rabbit-hole to learn more, I discovered that cobalt-hardened gold-plate at a thickness of 15 micro inches is applied. As “Jed” may have said, “Thar knife is purttier than Granny’s hog jowls in a bowl of possum gravy”.

    I betcha my fellow “WOT”ers was wondering where I have been. As always, enjoying the knife life!

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  5. “Crow realized there were two Gods –
    One of them much bigger than the other
    Loving his enemies
    And having all the weapons.”
    Ted Hughes – Crow’s Theology

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  6. Happy Father’s Day to all the Dads out there. Wishing you all a new knife. “Thicker than crows in a corn patch” -Jed Clampett

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  7. I missed last night’s race. I didn’t know they were starting the season already until I saw your post. Who won.
    I have my dvr set now.

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    1. Just watched tonight’s race. It was very enjoyable. Nice to see such a mix from old school racers to the local guy.

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  9. Anyone watch the SRX racing series last year? Any good? Thinking of watching the first race of the season tonight.

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  10. When winter hits we have like 90,000 crows come into our city each evening.
    I don’t know how they count them, but that’s what we are told.

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  11. Nothing but net on the “Murder” Clay! We lived in a place overlooking our city, saw hundreds of crows flying from all over and congregating in one area. The noise was so loud, quite an event. “L’Otters beware” and the flags cracked me up!

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    1. 1) Thank you, but really, thank Stuart.
      2) Most crows I’ve seen in one place was 16. That was noisy, and the group seemed quite aggressive toward non-crows. Killed and ate the brains of smaller birds. Chased squirrels, dogs people. Never saw anything like it. The thought of hundreds is just creepy. Awe inspiring, fascinating, but creepy!

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      1. Creepy is an understatement Mark, like being in the twilight zone, at the same time is was fascinating that this many birds could collectively communicate and organize!

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  13. Congrats Mark. How’s the weather in your neck of the woods? Been real hot this week in TN and is supposed to be even hotter next week. At least this weekend is supposed to cool down a bit to the mid 80s

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    1. Hot. And we don’t use that word until it’s 95 or above. This week has been at or above 100 every day (yeah it’s 97 at the airport, but nobody lives at the airport!) with overnights cooling off to low 80s. Typical late July/August weather.
      It got too hot too fast for my tomatoes to set. We’ll have some but not many. My pepper plants on the other hand are thriving!

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      1. Yeah, most of my wife’s flowers in her garden are doing well this year. Her broccoli did not do well though.

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  14. I will humbly and happily accept Stuart’s gift of the Downwind Caper and keep his good karma going! My hunting days are long behind me, but it my go to a nephew/godson as part of a kit I’m putting together for him as he heads off to college this fall. Some emergency supplies in case of an earthquake sort of thing. Thank you.
    And the Star Trek dad joke just makes me happy!
    Oh, Clay-I’ve got a new mailing address. I think I got it fixed in your system, if not shot me an e-mail.

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    1. Mark – I am thrilled that the knife is going to a good home, congrats, way to pay it forward. As a kid I remember the awe and joy of getting a new knife and the adventures that go with it (OK, I still get the awe and joy bit, but we had less then and it seemed a bigger deal)

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