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  • Originally posted by HuskyFreeNorthwest View Post
    You always have to try something more than twice.
    Good point.

    http://www.ebay.com/itm/Bugle-Boy-Ny...ht_1974wt_1161

    I'm having them overnighted.
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    Today is Friday, Friday (Partyin’)

    Tomorrow is Saturday
    And Sunday comes afterwards

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    • Originally posted by Devildog View Post
      I think you're wrong about it being a cheap costume weapon. I didn't want to spend $5000+ on a traditional Japanese katana but still wanted something functional and dependable. I think it's better than you suspect. I have many good knives... and some that just cost too much.

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      I've seen them and watched people chop things with them around ranges at lunchtime and that always provides entertainment... but I don't know.

      I'm sure they would crack/cut your freakin' skull.
      Good to hear, and I am happy to take your word for it. You aren't going to get a properly folded blade at that price point (the steel has been folded over and over again, perfectly aligning and compacting the metal grain, and introducing just enough carbon into the matrix to achieve an ideal mix of hardness (holds an edge) and malleability (resists breaking)).

      BTW, as a sculpture student at BYU, I apprenticed under a master blacksmith who makes the most amazing knives. Neil Hadlock:





      Very cool guy, and important regional artist. I never made any blades with him, but he taught me how to blacksmith, and most of my artwork incorporated forged pieces.

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      • Originally posted by Devildog View Post
        I think you're wrong about it being a cheap costume weapon. I didn't want to spend $5000+ on a traditional Japanese katana but still wanted something functional and dependable. I think it's better than you suspect. I have many good knives... and some that just cost too much.
        What the fuh? You've gotta be kidding me... why on God's green earth do you need to own a sword that's functional and dependable? I can't imagine a single practical human use for an effing sword in the year 2012!

        Oh... unless... wait... are you using it to protect your tin foil hat supply? Guarding the gates of the food storage with a non-mechanical weapon? Now it all makes sense...
        Visca Catalunya Lliure

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        • Originally posted by Tim View Post
          What the fuh? You've gotta be kidding me... why on God's green earth do you need to own a sword that's functional and dependable? I can't imagine a single practical human use for an effing sword in the year 2012!
          For slicing deli meats...


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          "If there is one thing I am, it's always right." -Ted Nugent.
          "I honestly believe saying someone is a smart lawyer is damning with faint praise. The smartest people become engineers and scientists." -SU.
          "Yet I still see wisdom in that which Uncle Ted posts." -creek.
          GIVE 'EM HELL, BRIGHAM!

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          • Originally posted by Tim View Post
            What the fuh? You've gotta be kidding me... why on God's green earth do you need to own a sword that's functional and dependable? I can't imagine a single practical human use for an effing sword in the year 2012!

            Oh... unless... wait... are you using it to protect your tin foil hat supply? Guarding the gates of the food storage with a non-mechanical weapon? Now it all makes sense...
            Ah yes, the highly prized tin foil hat collection.

            I have heard that once or twice before. Especially after friends see the mechanical weapon collection... and those friends are usually gun nuts themselves.

            You can't imagine a single practical use... imagine my poor wife, she probably could have found something else to spend a few hundred bucks on.
            "We should remember that one man is much the same as another, and that he is best who is trained in the severest school."
            -Thucydides

            "Study strategy over the years and achieve the spirit of the warrior. Today is victory over yourself of yesterday; tomorrow is your victory over lesser men."
            -Miyamoto Musashi

            Si vis pacem, para bellum

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            • Originally posted by RobinFinderson View Post
              BTW, as a sculpture student at BYU, I apprenticed under a master blacksmith who makes the most amazing knives. Neil Hadlock:

              Very cool guy, and important regional artist. I never made any blades with him, but he taught me how to blacksmith, and most of my artwork incorporated forged pieces.
              You are absolutely correct IMO in calling him an artist.
              Well made Damascus steel is an art.

              Very cool.
              "We should remember that one man is much the same as another, and that he is best who is trained in the severest school."
              -Thucydides

              "Study strategy over the years and achieve the spirit of the warrior. Today is victory over yourself of yesterday; tomorrow is your victory over lesser men."
              -Miyamoto Musashi

              Si vis pacem, para bellum

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              • Originally posted by Devildog View Post
                Ah yes, the highly prized tin foil hat collection.

                I have heard that once or twice before. Especially after friends see the mechanical weapon collection... and those friends are usually gun nuts themselves.

                You can't imagine a single practical use... imagine my poor wife, she probably could have found something else to spend a few hundred bucks on.
                LOL! Great response.
                Visca Catalunya Lliure

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                • More of a random observation:

                  Most families with children look for homes based on quality and rigor of school (district). LDS seem to look for homes based on ward boundaries, especially as it relates to the YM/YW program.

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                  • I could've written several headlines for this article that would've been Rated R.

                    http://www.newsplex.com/home/headlin...138423709.html
                    "Wuap's "problem" is that he is smart & principled & committed to a moral course of action. His actions are supposed to reflect his ethical code.
                    The rest of us rarely bother to think about our actions." --Solon

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                    • LOVE this! No, ma'am, you are not better than the rest of us so move your tail to the back of the... jail cell.


                      Cumberland County Sheriff's deputies use Taser on woman blocking McDonald's drive-through
                      http://fayobserver.com/articles/2012/02/03/1155055

                      Deputies used a Taser on a woman who wouldn't surrender to them after she cut into a McDonald's drive-through line and then refused to move her car without being served, according to the Cumberland County Sheriff's Office.

                      Evangeline Marrero Lucca, 37, of the 100 block of Snow Hill Church Road, pulled up to the window of the McDonald's on Legion Road, near Black and Decker Road, on Friday afternoon and held up the line for about 20 minutes before deputies arrived, said Debbie Tanna, a Sheriff's Office spokeswoman.

                      Staff at the restaurant reported that Lucca drove her Ford Taurus to the pickup window, bypassing the order screen and payment window, and tried to order her food there, she said.

                      "She did not want to wait in line," Tanna said. "They told her she had to go around and wait like everybody else did and place her order that way, that they weren't set up at that window to take her order or take her money. ... She wasn't having any of that."
                      I have nothing else to say at this time.

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                      • I get worried when the former top lawyer for the NSA says OMG...

                        Key Internet operator VeriSign hit by hackers

                        [...]

                        "Oh my God," said Stewart Baker, former assistant secretary of the Department of Homeland Security and before that the top lawyer at the National Security Agency. "That could allow people to imitate almost any company on the Net."
                        "If there is one thing I am, it's always right." -Ted Nugent.
                        "I honestly believe saying someone is a smart lawyer is damning with faint praise. The smartest people become engineers and scientists." -SU.
                        "Yet I still see wisdom in that which Uncle Ted posts." -creek.
                        GIVE 'EM HELL, BRIGHAM!

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                        • Social Media explained in terms that Donuthole can understand...

                          "If there is one thing I am, it's always right." -Ted Nugent.
                          "I honestly believe saying someone is a smart lawyer is damning with faint praise. The smartest people become engineers and scientists." -SU.
                          "Yet I still see wisdom in that which Uncle Ted posts." -creek.
                          GIVE 'EM HELL, BRIGHAM!

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                          • "Wuap's "problem" is that he is smart & principled & committed to a moral course of action. His actions are supposed to reflect his ethical code.
                            The rest of us rarely bother to think about our actions." --Solon

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                            • “There is a great deal of difference in believing something still, and believing it again.”
                              ― W.H. Auden


                              "God made the angels to show His splendour - as He made animals for innocence and plants for their simplicity. But men and women He made to serve Him wittily, in the tangle of their minds."
                              -- Robert Bolt, A Man for All Seasons


                              "It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye."
                              --Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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                              • Originally posted by LA Ute View Post
                                Weird, I know that elder on the left.
                                "Wuap's "problem" is that he is smart & principled & committed to a moral course of action. His actions are supposed to reflect his ethical code.
                                The rest of us rarely bother to think about our actions." --Solon

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