Funny Story

[TWeatherford]

I'm working at a dude ranch in Colorado this summer and really enjoying it. Most of the people here, including the owners, have conservative values. Day two here though I got into a gun discussion with a girl who was offended at my 3.5" sheath knife because she felt it was unnecessary. The conversation was good, and I think I got her to think, but she still thinks no one should have no guns.

Well, the next day was Sunday, and a neighboring rancher invited us to help him control his ground squirrel problem. So we loaded up in a truck with four bricks of .22 and various rifles and handguns and spent three hours massacring everything that moved in a 150 acre pasture. Pulled back on the ranch, guns and all, and there she was in the yard. I guess the sight of guns does't scare her to death, and I think she's on the wrong ranch.

 

[ArfinGreebly]

A Man and His Blade

That's a chuckle.

Wild West Pest Control.

She didn't like the knife?

Funny, I ran into a Lapp some years back who allowed as how if you work outdoors or have to travel in the wilderness at all, you've got no business going out without a good fixed blade.

Their kids carry from the time they're big enough go outside on their own, or at least they used to.

The only time I'm without a decent blade of some kind is when I'm forced to fly. I hate flying. They do their best to disarm me. Didn't used to be that way.

 

[230RN]

"A knife is a man's basic tool. With it, he can groom himself, defend himself, clothe himself, feed himself, shelter himself. Without it, he is nothing but a declawed, defanged mass of protein for those creatures with the fangs and the claws."

230RN, ca 1963

I wonder what would happen if she ventured into the kitchen. She'd probably faint at the sight of the cook stroking his edge over a good steel.

Worthless twit.

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"Mik, he's got a knife!"

"'At's not a knoif. This is a knoif."

(A memorable and hilarious scene from Crocodile Dundee.)