Really OT: SC - Re: Shoe size
Philip & Susan Troy
troy at asan.com
Sun Jul 19 07:24:17 PDT 1998
Mordonna22 at aol.com wrote:
>
> In a message dated 7/18/98 7:42:54 PM US Mountain Standard Time, troy at asan.com
> writes:
>
> << Please understand this
> is in no way any kind of comment on you, my lord, but my experience has
> been that ladies and smaller people generally prefer smaller knives,
> with the possible exception of ladies with Chinese cleavers, where the
> relationship seems more in inverse proportions ; ).
>
> Adamantius
> _________________________________ >>
>
> Hmmmm.
> I am 5'4 1/2" tall. I have tiny bones, but proportionately long forearms.
> (My much taller sister cannot reach much higher than I can). My two favorite
> knives were made for me by a friend. They are paired corn knives. Each has a
> rectangular blade 18" long by 3" wide with a wooden handle 8" long. (Just
> long enough for a two handed grip for me.)
Sounds like this is covered by the Chinese cleaver clause above...
>
> Wanna match your 10 1/2 inches against my 18?
Uh, at what?
>
> Seriously, I do not use these as cooking implements. Our camp has been raided
> several times by standard snatchers. Their chief purpose is deterrence. A
> secondary purpose was found for the rolled steel one when we misplaced the
> hatchet. From then on it was common to see someone in our camp using it to
> split firewood. Unfortunately, one young, inexperienced kitchen scullion once
> tried to chop wood with my STAINLESS corn knife, not knowing there was a
> difference between the two. He served KP for the remainder of the War under
> strict supervision, and probably has a far better understanding of the
> properties of metals and the care and feeding of blades than he ever hoped to
> have
Never had anything like that happen to me, but I did once have someone
stir lemonade with my honing steel (yum, steel granule soup!) and later
had a fellow helpfully hone my knife for me, at a 90 degree angle to the
steel (in both planes), using about 300lbs/square inch pressure. Either
he was actually trying to destroy the knife in the most efficient way
possible, or he was a very, very ignorant man trying to conceal the
fact.
Nowadays I'm just very careful about who I lend knives to.
Adamantius
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Phil & Susan Troy
troy at asan.com
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