Weekend Open Thread: Movies, and Music, and TV Oh My!
…Those men were true heroes.
Happy Friday Everyone. Quiet week this week. Press Week was last week, SHOT Show is next week (for Mark, but there will be a lot to share here regardless. Lacrosse practice doesn’t start until the 24th. So I had a chance to catch my breath a little this week.
Not a lot of current event memes right now, and it seems like I found an inordinate number of movie, music, and tv related memes – many of which hit pretty close to home for a child of the 1980s
Warriors…Come out to plaaay…
Thunder, Thunder, Thunder Cats!
An oldie but a goodie.
While I am sharing Star Wars memes…
It has been a while since we have done a “Hocky’s Corner”. He sent me several photos, relating back to a discussion in last week’s WOT.
Above: Charles Pratt Pocket Fixed Blade
Below:”Dan Warren, MS-ABS, little Bowie. Dan set it up as a neck knife (I have worn it as a necker at knife shows). The knife in sheath is OAL: 5 in.”
Below: “This is the beauty which Steve gave me yesterday for my “69th”. He made it from his “old sawmill blade”. Only the “Maker’s Mark” kept me from being too emotional 😃”
Happy Birthday Hocky.
Congrats to Mark R. I drew his comment from last week for his “Second Token”. That makes him the winner of the Spartan Blades Astor. We have another one to give away, but this week we will take a break for a cool calendar from Allegheny Mountain Knives.
Usual rules apply. Up to 5 comments/replies count as your entries. I will draw a winner next week. If you are new to the blog, your comments will be held in moderation until I have the chance to approve them. From that point on you can post at will.
and another musical meme…
I guess the passing of Bob Saget is a current event.
Or as Tim Allen put it…
I will obviously remember him from Full House. But I think his finest moment was at the AA meeting in Half Baked.
Speaking of Full House, how did I miss this?
I am not sure the backstory. But there is a meme about it.
Still don’t know the backstory. Probably because I am Gen X. But no one cares about us.
Last music/TV meme. I promise.
I have a couple of random non-themed memes as well.
Parenting is hard.
I love that one.
Reminds me of Trixie.
I miss normal. But we will never get back to it if we keep tempting fate.
Just don’t do it.
Yes, yes she is.
I don’t know about 66, but I got to 20 without blinking.
That is about all for tonight. Feel free to answer the above in the comments. you can do 3 to a post.
Have a good one folks.
cmeat
i felt compellingly alienated until i realized that i pretty much understood 19 of these and was only clueless on four. such a rich treasure trove of… mildly amusing efforts (i’m referring to the volumes of these online). these of course are hand picked and above average, but my kids explain memes to me enough where i’ve realized, “oh, i did get that,” or “mkay, so it just isn’t funny.” it’s weird because they keep eating them up. kids (smh).
hocky has some unique items there, thanks for posting the images. i’m glad they get used.
currently on standby for the work portion of a large customer outage.
Mark R
Clay, thank you. I will happily and proudly carry this Spartan!
I’ll start with the movies:
Back to the Future
Toy Story
Willy Wonka
Happy Birthday Hockey!
Del Corsi
Congrats on the Spartan win Mark!
Mark R
Thanks! Looking forward to putting it through the paces.
Mark R
Several snort-worthy memes this week. Loved the Fett family and golden fiddle!
Hockey, those are some pretty knives. I bet you’ll give Jason some ideas.
The Good, The Bad and the Ugly (IMO the GREATEST spaghetti western ever)
Batman
Jurassic Park
Happy Birthday Hockey!
Jason K
Congrats on the Spartan, Mark. I really like that knife in the last pic from Hocky. IMO The Good, The Bad, The Ugly isn’t the greatest spaghetti western, but the greatest film ever! Years ago I had the meanest rooster around, I dubbed him Tuco Benedicto Pacífico Juan María Ramírez or “The Ugly”. After too many attacks on my wife he was given to a local taco truck. “There are two kinds of people in the world, my friend: Those with a rope around the neck, and the people who have the job of doing the cutting.”
Hocky
Visit “Steve Nuckels” on Instagram and you will see more of his excellent work. Re “mean roosters”, “Ugly”would have liked “George”, a cock from hell, who terrorized my 12-year old ass when I was a paperboy (1965-69). “George” was Mrs. Unger’s nightmare. I delivered her paper to the back porch. That fowl would streak out at me from behind the wood shed with wings flapping and screeching like a banshee. I was more afraid of that thing than any dog on my paper route. (Note: Mrs. Unger was a WWI widow. Her late husband was a coin collector. She would pay me each week with coins from the 1880’s through 1917 All the coins were “uncirculated or mint” . . . the newspaper, “The Daily Mail”, cost a nickel in 1965; then, 7 cents in 1967 thru 1969. I still have many of these coins.)
cmeat
“what this country needs is a seven cent nickel.”
Del Corsi
Happy Birthday Hocky! great looking knives, like the false edge on that sweet old sawmill blade knife. The “Pratt” is beautiful, and who wouldn’t love to have that “Warren” as a companion. While the following are not all 80s movies Clay, they could be! Favorites of mine are all tied for first, The Warriors (1979) – Enter The Dragon (1973)- Last of the Mohicans (1992)- Tombstone with Val Kilmer (1993), just watched this one last night for the umpteenth time!
Hocky
Hey Del: Feels like the Pacific Northwest here in Hagerstown, MD, this January day. Cold, windy and ice-covered snow. Puget Sound, Poulsbo, circa late 1975. I let Steve Nuckels know that you liked the “Sawmill”! He is having a lot of fun “creating” knives and such in his forge. Thanks for the Birthday greeting.
Del Corsi
We have a great thaw happening here, false sense of Spring, I can hear the Softail calling from the shed, usually get her out in March! I do already follow Steve on IG, love his inlay work, especially love the authentic looking Warclub he makes!
Incredible work.
StuartB
生日快乐 Hocky!
Hocky
“Domo Arigatou”.
Del Corsi
Forrest Gump!
Hocky
First off, Thank you, Clay, for sharing the photos of my “little knives” with the “WOTers”! My photography suffers . . . you did a great job “enhancing” the pics. Did anyone notice the “upside down paper plate” for the background? Needed something “white” for contrast . . . speaking to knife photography – – – Jim Weyer. All the photography in “Master of the Forge” was done by “Weyer International”, 1996.
Congratulations! Mark R, on your good luck. I hope that you get to meet Mark Carey and Curtis Iovito, “Spartan Blades”. Carry your “Astor” often and use it well.
I love movies. All kinds of movies. Too many favorites to pick a number one . . . I can binge on TCM when they present John Wayne (“They Were Expendable”, any submarine flick); Errol Flynn (“Captain Blood”, “The Sea Hawk”, “Charge of the Light Brigade” etc.) . . . and, I enjoy the MGM musicals: “Singin In the Rain” especially. Oh, the “Warriors” was inspiring.
“Allegheny Mountain Knives” will be on my “Gotta Take a Look” agenda.
cmeat
here’s a couple:
“the life and death of colonel blimp” a 1943 british film from production team “the archers.” pretty much their entire catalog is worthy.
“night in paradise” a korean gangster film with lots of gun and knifeplay.
totally rand faves.
Hocky
“Destination Tokyo (1944)” relates how the U.S. Submarine Force kept the Japanese advance in the Pacific stymied. In this movie the USS Copperfin (Real life: USS Seadragon, SS194) preps the way for Doolittle’s raid on Tokyo in 1942. The appendectomy shown in the movie was performed on the “Seadragon” in 1944. The authenticity of the “boat” interiors and the camaraderie of the crew is very well done. A WW2 submarine only carried 50-60 sailors; My boat, USS George Bancroft SSBN643 carried about 140 men.
Well, that’s my submarine ‘sea story’ for today. Anchors away!
H. Clay Aalders
I was always partial to Run Silent, Run Deep.
I have also read all of Beach’s books.
Hocky
Yes, “Run Silent, Run Deep” (1958) is “acted well”; however, it is a provocative “sub”-flick because the movie is not true to CMDR Beach’s novel. He primarily based his book on the USS Wahoo SS-238, a Gato-class submarine in WW2. “Wahoo -The Patrols of America’s Most Famous WWII Submarine”, Richard H. O’Kane (Rear Admiral, USN, (Ret.), 1987 – Presidio Press, is an excellent read on U.S. Navy submarines in the Pacific Theater. Additionally, O’Kane wrote “Clear the Bridge – The War Patrols of the USS Tang”, 1977 – Presidio Press. Another fact-filled book, “War Under the Pacific”, Keith Wheeler; 1980 – Time-Life Books, Inc., presents a total view of the U.S. Submarine Fleet contributions to winning the war in the Pacific.
I hope you can find these books at your library, Clay. Fortunately, I enjoy the close friendship of “Hank” McKinney, Rear Admiral, USN, (Ret.) who “rubbed elbows” with “Dick” O’Kane (Hank called him that . . . not me!). “Hank” was the “Commanding Officer of the Submarine Pacific Fleet” (COMSUBPAC). He authored, “Flotsam and Jetsam”, which is full of submariner’s sea stories!
H. Clay Aalders
Yeah, they definitely took some liberties with the book.
I actually liked the book Dust on the Sea better than RSRD, though I have admittedly read the former several more times.
cmeat
well, blimp is my fave film from the above mentioned “archers,” but they did do a submarine propaganda film ostensibly to encourage the yanks to enter the war. it’s called “49th parallel” and it’s about a british sub stranded/ boxed in by germans in northern canada. to escape they have to cross the border into the u.s. on foot.
these films are often referred to as “powell and pressburger.” they made twenty films from ’39 to ’71.