Weekend Open Thread: Getting The Band back together edition

H. Clay Aalders
Weekend Open Thread
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Hey folks. It’s Friday, and none too soon if you ask me. My daughter started High School this week, my son 7th grade, our 6 week plumbing Odyssey was completed (we had to have the slab ripped up in our basement to replace 70-year old drain pipe), a storm with 12 hour power outage, I am getting the final preparations made for my first season coaching without my daughter, and I made 21 pints of salsa. I’m whooped.  So time to pour a dram of your favorite libation, and kick back for our Weekend Open Thread.

I have been throwing in a random music video each of the past several weeks. I usually don’t open with it, but I didn’t have a good theme for this week’s memes.

In case you missed it, guitarist Robbie Robertson from The Band passed away this week. Hopefully he and Levon mend their fences in the afterlife and are settling in for an epic jam session.

I am bummed that The Last Waltz rotated off of Amazon Prime. I might have to break down and buy it on Apple+. It is one of the best Rock-umentaries ever. Probably because it was directed by Scorsese.

Requiescat in Pace sir.

Another unfortunate passing…

The Government finally got him. RIP

Barbie memes have legs apparently.

Warning…You won’t unsee this…

Told you.

He’s double lucky, Home Depot will pay a premium for that choice lumber.

Speaking of wood…Duck You.

Wood Duck?

All good revolutions start with a lack of pants.

Most Greek Mythology can be distilled to “and then Zeus got horny”

Taking a look at our Event Calendar:

Natural State Knife Show

Idaho Traditional and Tactical Knife Show

Two shows this week, and one the next…

Central Kentucky Knife Club Knife Show

Actually there are two shows…found this on John Wilson’s page.

For our Caknucklehead friends.

Hydration is good.

Truth.

Mmm…taco chair.

Cat meme of the week…

Cat meme runner up of the week…

Related…

Was that wrong of me?

You know who else is happy? Hocky because his first choice of Ocaso Strategy is available (Jade/Satin). Which leaves the Black G10/Satin as the last one. It will go to the next person to be drawn for a second time.

Stuart, Del, and Mark still keep their first tokens, and Cmeat gets his first token as well. But it isn’t too late for the rest of you. So comment away, your first 5 comments and replies are your entries. If you are new to the blog, your first comments will be held in moderation until I approve them. From then on out you can post at will.

With business now complete, here are the rest of this weeks memes you ungrateful cretins…

 

Sawzall, because body panels are optional.

Follow me for more recipe ideas.

Reminds me of the strip club with “A dozen Lovely Ladies and one Ugly one”.

Close enough.

Your childhood was a lie.

How American are you?

 

Richard > Marvin Heemeyer. Heemeyer was an asshat.

Richard just wanted to fly.

That’s a lot of coffee.

Hocky…we are going to need an explanation of that one.

With big, pointy, teeth.

You only think that one is bad…this is worse.

Or this.

Trifecta!

DnD humor.

Cranberry Juice is a slut.

It is not a toomah.

I was good, but not as good as my friend Chris

Probably.

Back to school.

Probably wise to rethink that one.

Well, there you have it. You have wasted another evening, don’t hate me.

One more, just because…

May his memory be a blessing.

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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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  2. i was never a king of the hill fan. i might have been but for the son who was offputting. sort of negated the other characters.
    before moots bought his cordoba (i remember laughing when he installed an aftermarket wiper delay dealio, had never seen one, didn’t get it) he had a circa ’70 dart with the baby (173) slant six. he bought some correct pattern wheels with some pretty big mudders for the upcoming snows and made clearance with a sawzall. that little motor could only turn them on ice.
    the sea slug is reminiscent of the blancmanges that played podgorny at wimbledon.

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  3. “Gilligan’s Island” cast review: “The Minnow” was played by a “1964 Wheeler”*** . . . okay. I liked “Mary Ann”(Dawn Wells); “Ginger”(Tina Louise) was fantasy world for a 12 year old boy . . . The millionaire, Thurston Howell III (Jim Backus, aka “Mr. Magoo”) and his wife, Lovey (Natalie Schafer); and, the “Professor” (Russell Johnson) did their bits. “The Skipper” (Alan Hale Jr. Note: His dad played “Little John” in the “Adventures of Robin Hood” (1939)) and his “little buddy”, “Gilligan” (Bob Denver, aka “Maynard” in “Dobie Gillis”) were kind of a “Laurel & Hardy” . . . Good fun TV in the ’60s! . . .

    ***14 knots? The “hole in the bow” was most likely created by a Mk45 torpedo that went straight through . . .

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  4. Managed to sneak a few days out camping up in the hills around Idyllwild, here in CA. Very relaxing. The best part was a hike up to the Black Mountain Fire Watch Tower, great views (obviously) and a great place to hang out and chat with the NFS volunteers.

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      1. I went all Cold Steel; my new SRK Compact and the Pendleton mini hunter in AUS10. Not that much prowling round the camp site that needed stabbing, so the SRK got little use, but the mini hunter is a very neat little blade for food prep and for whittling ‘bushcraft’ cocktail sticks for the olives.

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        1. Oh, and the most used camping edged item, as always, my Cold Steel Spetsnaz Shovel. Great Jeep shovels if you can get past the cringe name, solid AF and you can get a good edge on them, for roots or small wood splitting.

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        2. You certainly go prepared with the blades, sounds like an awesome trip. Have to reply to your comment about the Pound (Stirling) I had just started a career running skidders, no lotteries at that time except something called the “Irish Sweepstakes”. Don’t know if it was legal but a guy at work had tickets for sale. I bought one, won 100 Pounds. Thinking it was almost $300. dollars. Was so cool, can’t remember what the top prize was? It was a horse race I believe, your ticket was drawn and assigned to one of the horses.

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          1. before there was lottery there was a racket (but i repeat) called “policy.” i’ve got a neat book called something like policy players handbook. it assigns numbers to stuff that happens/ various objects in your dreams.
            there’s an old blues saying, “don’t take no 3 6 9” that i was never sure of. in this book it lists feces/ scatological as 369. a local dj always ends his broadcast with that line- decades later i know for sure where it came from.

  6. Once again, great memes.
    Any of you guys going to the Lexington show this coming weekend? It’s a great show.

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  7. Memes: “Bat Out of Hell”(Meatloaf, RIP). . .Classic, I won’t do “Barbie”, either.

    “The Band”: Did you know that Eric Clapton left “Cream” to be in the “Band”? That may have been awesome . . . didn’t happen. Yes, “The Last Waltz” is fabulous!

    Throwing this in, the 46th anniversary of the death of “Elvis” is August 16th. He would be “88 years old” today (January 8, 1935). The world of rock ‘n roll would not be what it is were it not for him. Favorite movie: “Jailhouse Rock” (1957).

    Re the “Strategy”, . . . I look forward to receiving the “Jade G-10”. Thanks, Clay. Good luck to my “WOT” peers on the coming week. Remember . . . “timing is the key”, Ha-Ha!

    “Knife”, August 2023 – Volume 9, Number 8″ features Jay Hendrickson, MS-ABS, on the cover and the article, written by his wife, Nancy, is inspirational. I will get “Jay” to autograph my copy. “Matthew Parkinson” wrote the article, “Turning the World to Dust – The Shop Files” which totally engaged me. His passion for his “tools” is gratifying to him; and, I noted that he “maintains and cares” for his “wonderful files”. I use a “file card” each time I use a file. I will try his “tip” on “chalking a file” to minimize clogging the teeth. Well done, Matthew.

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    1. something groovy about elvis on a honda benley in “roustabout.”
      my first dead show was at the auditorium theatre, which had been through alot by the mid ’70’s (burlesque, bowling alley, vaudeville) but had been restored back to it’s former opulence by then. tix went on sale the same day as the ones for presley. the hours long line at the montgomery wards, which housed the ticketron back then, was a bizaare assortment of freaks and housewives. fun for us, we had just ditched school on a monday.

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    2. That Jade is the best looking Hocky. Some really good memes, the tribute to Robbie Robertson was very cool. The Last Waltz is a family favorite.

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      1. Yesterday, I received the “Strategy” via USPS. The box was the size of a 2-slice toaster! Whoa, . . . What did Clay send me? I used my omnipresent SAK “Classic” to carefully cut the box tape . . . Suspense and Bubblewrap! Oh my! A pyramid-shaped box nestled by a bigger square box, . . . Hmmmm-mm. The “Jade G-10” was in the pyramid. The square box was a 3-knife “Ocaso” knife keeper. Totally awesome and unexpected! This “Ocaso” packaging is impressive.

        The “Strategy” is everything good as foretold by the “Knife” folks mini-reviews and other reviewers, e.g. NBK. I would describe it as a “Smooth Operator” (That one is for Del). Slick opening with the ceramic ball bearings. Solid lock-up by the liner lock (Really nice engagement). I am fond of “Jade G-10”. . . it is easy on the eyes like Ann Margaret in “Viva Las Vegas”.

        The “Strategy” is a well-made knife. Kudos to the “Taiwanese” and to “Ocaso”. Thanks to “Knife” for the “WOT” and its many contributors. I plan to keep the “Strategy”, at least for a while.

        Interestingly, the blade is etched: “K110 D2”. Achtung!

        “Hocky”

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        1. Awesome the “Strategy” is not going in the “Bag” Hocky. Can’t wait to hear your review. I mad one knife handle out of jade for my older brother. He put so much pressure on me to make it, was so hard that silica carbide belts would only make it glow. Had to go to a friend who had the diamond wheels. High chrome jade is so beautiful, a company that mines the stuff sent me 1/4 inch slabs at no charge, they would like to do sell my knives with jade handles in their store.

          The jade sits on my shelf, first customer who comes in and comments takes it home, at no charge.

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  8. “Water Slugs” . . . Submarine term for ugly sea beasts found in the bilge. They are removed by pneumatic expulsion. “Slugs” are loaded into a missile tube. Tube is filled with seawater**. Air pressure, up to 3000 psi, blows the slugs out of the tube.

    **Note: This operation is usually performed in port, i.e. the harbor. A colored dye, e.g. pink, blue, yellow, may be added to the tube water. When blown out, the visual effect can be extraordinary, especially to sightseers on the dock. The photo of the USS Daniel Boone’s water slug firing is often associated with a “weaponized jellyfish” . . . I reckon that it may resemble other things . . . It’s all in the eye of the beholder!

    “Up Scope!”

    “Hocky”, MM1(SS) USS George Bancroft SSBN643 Blue Crew, 1975-78

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    1. Ugly sea beasts…interesting term. Do any pretty ones find their way into the bilge? And what unfortunate soul draws bilge slug retrieval duty?

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      1. MARK-R: Submariners have a need to “break up the routine” when on patrol. “Water slug” retrieval from the engine room bilges is one of many “duties” that a “newbie” might be tasked with as he seeks his submarine qualification. Other tasks include: Finding “relative bearing grease”; a “left-handed crescent wrench”; a “bucket of steam” . . . as for the “slugs”, the “pretty ones” are kept as pets.

        Then, there is “Halfway Night” . . . and the “Miss Bancroft” contest. (Note: Women were not allowed to serve on USN-combatant ships, i.e. Submarines, until 2011.)

        “Dive! Dive!”

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        1. Hocky – when I was a lad my Dad sent me to the local hardware store with a couple of pounds (stirling) for some “Elbow Grease”. The store owner was amused and though he didn’t have any of that he did sell me a can of bearing grease to take back, took my Dad’s money, and sent me back with a smile. I got all the way home before I figured it out, my Dad was less amused!

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          1. StuartB: I reckon the “store owner” got some feedback from your Dad. He did “take the money” and sell you something that your Dad did not need. How much was a “pound” worth in “dollars” when you were a “lad”?

          2. Hocky – the Pound was about 2.5 to a dollar back then, but it wasn’t a huge amount of money wasted, just a good lesson learned.
            We had a few young scouts at camp tricked into going to the scout leaders to as for a “long Weight” while pitching the tents to help with the set up. That always took a while. There’s one born in every troop!

        2. I’m left handed. I must have been 10 helping my grandfather work on the car. He asked me to hand him a crescent wrench. I handed him the one I’d been using, and he said, “Not the left handed one!” I went to look for a different one but wasn’t another one in his tool box, so I turned it over and handed it back to him. He winked, smiled and thanked me.

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          1. “Crescent” wrenches were not allowed on board the submarine, aka the “Boat”. Why? “Adjustable wrenches” could “round off the corners” of hex nuts. In the world of “Level 1, SubSafe, Nuclear Grade” nuts and other fasteners, this was important. The Navy issued full sets of stainless steel “crow’s feet” wrenches for “nutting”. Note: “Nuts” and other fasteners that were used in any nuclear grade piping system were specially marked. These “quality control” identifiers could trace a “nut” back to its origins as an ore . . . Expensive? I was the “Repair Parts Petty Officer” (RPPO) for “M” Division. I bought these “nuclear grade, SubSafe nuts” for $80 a piece. “Lose a nut?” . . . Find it. The “Operational Reactor Safety Examiners” (ORSE) would “grease mark” every “Level 1” bolt and nut during their inspections. Every “Level 1, SubSafe” (nuclear and non-nuclear systems) fastener in inventory would be counted, bagged and tagged. “ORSE” would spend three days doing their inspections and drills . . . they did this AFTER we completed a patrol of 75 days. Why? If a boat FAILED an “ORSE”, then the on-board crew (Blue or Gold) remained on board to re-take the inspection. It wasn’t enough that we successfully completed our mission and returned safely. In hindsight, it was a necessary thing to do.

      2. hoping this goes under hocky’s crows foot post- i have open ended, flare nut (line) and boxed crow’s feet, the open ones will round off a fastener as easily as an adjustable wrench might. they’re attachments for a breaker, ratchet or extension, yes? or do we have differing daffynitions?
        none of them are stainless though.

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        1. Yep, the “crow’s foot” was an attachment. These were precision ground and tight-fitting, open-end. Personally, I did not like using them. During an “ORSE” an inspecting Officer would observe “one of us”, i.e. a knuckle-dragging Machinist Mate (MM), tighten a packing gland. Heaven help the “MM” who did not apply “countertorque”, . . . Aaargh!

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  9. CMEAT scrapes in with long and edgy comments, the algos God turns again. Congrats and welcome to the fold.
    Shatner panties FTW

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  10. Clay, it sounds like you’ve had quite a time. I hope you can unwind some. Hockey gets his choice and CMEAT gets a ticket! Congrats all around!
    I’m reading this Saturday morning-my libation of choice is coffee. Good thing I let it cool down, because the puns had it shooting through my nose! Get meme week, Clay. Your work here is done!
    Never go to Web MD. Ever. I Knew HD had a special stash of trees! Speaking of, I’m heading out with a long list of honey-do’s. Nothing exciting or complicated-just a bunch. North Texas continues to bake.
    Have a good one, ya’ll.

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    1. Totally agree with you Mark,on both the coffee and memes. When I smoked could easily go with a cigarette, but never without coffee.

      Hoping things cool down for you soon!

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