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Posted on 12/20/2004 9:01:36 AM PST by ecurbh
New verse:
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Swirly thing is to check out the color. And sediments. No?
I prefer my red wine just slightly chilled, and my white wine at room temp.
And to oxygenate it a little.
Right, oxygen. We're having a pinot from Australia with dinner.
yeah... but yuh gets lotsuh kewl points fer pullin' it off...
Heheh!! My "Cholesterol Medicine" is Woodbridge Red Zinfandel!
Natural cholesterol medicine! Along with my blueberries, black tea and almonds, I have maintained a total cholesterol of less than 200 for over three months!
No statins for me!
Apparently a common side effect of red wine is a headache too, for lightweights like myself!
Joke's on me! Good for you!! You're so precious! ((HUG))
Mesdames et messieurs, une annonce svp.
Le Stormhands' ; la célébration extérieure de vacances de famille s'est officiellement fermée pour la saison.
Merci de nous joindre. Nous attendons avec intérêt de vous revoir la saison prochaine.
Señoras y caballeros, un aviso por favor.
El Stormhands' la celebración al aire libre del día de fiesta de la familia se ha cerrado oficialmente para la estación.
Gracias por ensamblarnos. Miramos adelante a verle otra vez la estación próxima.
Damen und Herren, eine Ansage bitte.
Das Stormhands' Familie hat im Freienfeiertagfeier offiziell während der Jahreszeit geschlossen.
Danke für das Verbinden wir. Wir freuen, Sie wieder zu sehen folgende Jahreszeit.
Ádiéslá ndáen Éntlemengë, naén nnoúncéméntath leäsepï.
Héten Tormhandssá' ämïlyfé útdóoroth ólïdayhä elebrätíoncë áshén ffíciállyoth lósedcí órfën hëtén eásónsä.
Hánctë óuyën órfen óiningjí súën. Ëwen óocla órwardfá otén ééíngsó óúyen gäinath éxtnä eásonsó.
Eyes are also a good target for reverse-curve blades like that.
The traditional karambit is a fixed-blade knife, double-edged, and has to be carried in a sheath. That ring on the bottom is the key to its deployment, and either the index or pinkie finger can go there, depending on the moves you want to make.
The karambit is most definitely a martial-arts item, and requires practice to do more than the basic slash/eviscerate. I have a blunt all-aluminum practice karambit that doesn't do any damage to me, except getting whacked on the wrist a little hard when I really spin it. It has potential as a non-lethal weapon that can do things that even a nightstick can't, like using the blunt hook-end to convince someone to get out of a car seat.
Another nice feature of the Spyderco folding Karmbit is that it has nice pointy areas on both ends when the blade is closed. Helpful for pressure points, or just to punch someone in a vulnerable area with.
kewl...
Helpful for pressure points, or just to punch someone in a vulnerable area with.
muh eyes are waterin' jest thinkin' bout it... love them pressure points and nerve bundles... I've discovered that nuthin' buckles the knees faster than a diagonal, downward strike tuh the atlas joint... if'n yuh kin get at it... ceptin' maybe a shot tuh the kidneys...
slash tuh the eyes or face izzuh quick attention getter... course, when it gets nasty, leavin' 'em trying tuh hold their intestines in makes fer an easier E&E...
danke...
so the spectacle outside the house is done... the spectacle inside continues...
Yeah, pretty much. And we don't have the Christmas stuff down inside.
It's always interestin' takin' down the plastic nativity. Something either with a bulb or a wire, or with the sand bags I put inside to weigh them down.
You know that Christmas is officially over when you find yerself pickin' sand out of a camel's butt.
Picked Sam up at the doggie spa today. He stayed there whilst we went over the river and thru the woods.
Looks like we're gonna have to go the sedation manicure route. He won't let' em trim his nails.
I thought you did that everyday?...
Well, not the camel's...
Or take him running on concrete ;~D
ecurbh and I have been rearranging the bedroom today :~D
I was walking back past some of the stables when I noticed a small chip of reddish barn-wood in a dried-up tire rut. My brain went into Monk-mode (even though the show did not exist yet), and told me the chip of wood was out of place, since there were no red barns there. I kicked it free from the dirt, and noticed it was an extremely precisely-shaped piece of wood.
That told me to pick it up. It took a few seconds for me to realize it was a mud-caked Swiss Army knife, a Wenger, in fact, because of the square recess where the shield once was. I don't know how many trucks and trailers ran over it, or people and horses stepped on it, but I was the only one who recognized it as a knife.
It must have been there for weeks or months, because the innards were caked with mud as hard as concrete. Hours of blasting it with my ultrasonic cleaner took off the surface mud, but didn't touch the stuff inside. It was impossible to open any of the blades.
Over the course of six months, I'd pour penetrating oil onto the pivot points, and eventually the main blade started to open a bit. I kept at it until I could get the blade halfway open.
From there on, I attacked the mud-concrete with dental picks. That, and more ultrasonic blasting, got enough junk out to start slowly working on each blade. It's now as cleaned-up as I can possibly get it, and everything works, but not too smoothly.
The plastic is all hacked-up, the aluminum liners are somewhat corroded, and the polish on the blades is shot. But it can still take an edge, and still do what it was intended to do.
z'at whutchuh call it now?...
a labor of love...
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