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Well, first off, I want to say that the BladeShow was horrible this year. I mean, everything was bad, I never want to go back. Since this is a Busse forum, I will focus just on what I didn't like about the Busse portion of Blade.
I had a booth this year, so I was able to be at the Busse "Gigantabooth" before anyone else was let in. Did that matter? Nope, not one bit. As I walked up, there were already plenty of criminals standing around who somehow snuck in ahead of everyone and didn't pay one red cent. These people were pushing, shoving, cussing and yelling out racial obscenities when given the go ahead to feed on the blades laying about. They grabbed everything, sometimes by the edge, cutting each other and themselves. Some jumped over the front table and just started grabbing what was under it. Every time I reached for a knife, I was kidney punched or had the back of my knee kicked, usually by smaller children and wives of these blade hoarders. I finally had to retreat before I got hurt too bad. Were the Busse crew trying to maintain order? Of course not!! They were encouraging this behavior from the get-go, it was insane!! When someone who wasn't aggressive enough fell to the ground, the Busse staff would yell out "Hog Stomp!!" and they would proceed to stomp on that person until they were unconscious.
When I returned, everything was gone. Parts of the booth were missing, there were beer bottles and used shanks (prison not Pork) laying about. However, out of the corner of my eye, I saw two grail blades calling my name. I can't believe they were missed, I mean, somebody wasn't paying attention. So, I ran full speed and grabbed these two beauties. Do note that these are special editions that are only available from Blade 2013 and the Scrapyard website:
Yeah, how you like me now? 1000 miles for two Scrapivores, I would say it was totally worth it!! I paid $200 a piece for them because again, they are special edition Blade 2013 and Scrapyard website only. These will be worth millions someday, so don't even try to ask me if they are for sale.
The following day, I decided to try my luck again, this time donning full body armor I fashioned out of pillows and towels from the Sheraton Suites Hotel. Since most of the people from the day before were either dead or in jail, I had much better luck. I noticed these two bad boys right away and grabbed them:
Yeah, they are two old, rare blades dipped in ugly, but I couldn't resist. Yardhooks just feel so damn solid in the your hand. The blade catch comes in handy too when working in the lawn because sometimes my lawn fights back.
So, then came the Skeleton Key handout. I wanted one badly, but the crowd was back, in full swing, and I was unable to get to the basket in time. I was so disappointed and then they announced that the first 30 people to slam their head on the front table hard enough to draw blood would get a free MOAB. Before I could even move towards the table, I felt a sharp pain on each side of my body, around the kidney area. I dropped to me knee's and cried out for help, but no one came. I was able to crawl under David Brown's table and find out what this pain was coming from. I pulled out these two babies:
I had to clean the blood and kidney juice off of them, but they still look fine and are still very sharp. I have no idea who stuck me with them, but I suspect Eric "I look like Joe Rogan" Esmond. Oh yeah, the 30 free MOABs head bang was just a cruel joke that was played by the Busse staff. There were a lot of caved in heads and not a MOAB to be found.
An hour or so later, the blood was cleaned up, the bodies were zipped up and taken away and Blade continued. When I was brave enough, I would make my way back to the pit to catch a tag or two and hopefully leave with all my organs intact. I snagged some Trailing Rats:
Some "Fatter Than My Fat Brother" Fusion Steal Hearts:
A 1111111111111111111:
A thin RatManSomethingOrOther:
A Custom Satin Rat3 and an Active Doodie:
And then we come to these two blades. Both are TGLBM's but one is very cool looking and one is very UGLY!! I really wanted the competition version only, but this mean girl named Lexus, Pookie or something, said I couldn't have it unless I buy this Sage blade version with 1950's Diner Green scales as well. I mean, what was I going to do?
Oh yeah, and you know how sometimes you buy a blade and then later regret it? Well, my final blade is one of those blades. I mean, out of everything available at the show, I bought this giant piece of junk. What was I thinking? I mean, who wants something this ugly and stupid looking?!?! Seriously, this one blade makes me want to throw my entire collection in the trash and give up on knives altogether. After that I may wreck my car, burn my house down and walk to Mexico. Why Mexico? Cause I am in Texas and it's only like 200 miles away!! I could start a new life there and be the Billy Badass that I always wanted to be. I could be a cattle rustler, a crooked farmer or maybe even work for a touristy resort!! Oh, yeah, here is the knife:
A @#$%^&!@ MOAB!! Okay, all BS aside, I was so happy to get this. I got very lucky, was in the right place, had some nice tears going and bam!! As Rob Stanley said, you have to use this knife and once I get a sheath for it, I will. Maybe, well, I dunno, probably, we'll see.
In case you hadn't figured it out, everything I said above was pure fiction laced with overblown sarcasm.
I wanted to thank everyone from Busse for another great show. Thanks for the food, the beer and the 2.5 day hangover I suffered. It was all worth it, well, once the hangover was gone, it was. I had a bunch of other stuff I wanted to add about cool people I met and hung out with, but they know it already, I made it clear in my sober and/or drunken state!
I do have to add one particular note, though. Busse has a lot of trade secrets that they would like to remain secrets. Being the immature person that I am, I tried my hardest to get something, anything out of one of them. Not for malicious reasons, but just to see if I could and then never repeat it again. Let's just say I failed miserably. You would have a better chance of beating "The Riddle Of Steel" out of Schwarzenegger's Conan than you would getting secrets out of Busse staff. They are a great bunch!! And is it me or does Garth always have that "Thousand Yard Stare" in every picture? Yeah, you can catch a smile here and there, but it's pretty rare. 
I did want to leave you with this pic, though, because "Sage" is sorta like "Dark Earth"???
See you all at Blade 2014!!
Havoc550/Tim Bujnoch
I had a booth this year, so I was able to be at the Busse "Gigantabooth" before anyone else was let in. Did that matter? Nope, not one bit. As I walked up, there were already plenty of criminals standing around who somehow snuck in ahead of everyone and didn't pay one red cent. These people were pushing, shoving, cussing and yelling out racial obscenities when given the go ahead to feed on the blades laying about. They grabbed everything, sometimes by the edge, cutting each other and themselves. Some jumped over the front table and just started grabbing what was under it. Every time I reached for a knife, I was kidney punched or had the back of my knee kicked, usually by smaller children and wives of these blade hoarders. I finally had to retreat before I got hurt too bad. Were the Busse crew trying to maintain order? Of course not!! They were encouraging this behavior from the get-go, it was insane!! When someone who wasn't aggressive enough fell to the ground, the Busse staff would yell out "Hog Stomp!!" and they would proceed to stomp on that person until they were unconscious.
When I returned, everything was gone. Parts of the booth were missing, there were beer bottles and used shanks (prison not Pork) laying about. However, out of the corner of my eye, I saw two grail blades calling my name. I can't believe they were missed, I mean, somebody wasn't paying attention. So, I ran full speed and grabbed these two beauties. Do note that these are special editions that are only available from Blade 2013 and the Scrapyard website:
Yeah, how you like me now? 1000 miles for two Scrapivores, I would say it was totally worth it!! I paid $200 a piece for them because again, they are special edition Blade 2013 and Scrapyard website only. These will be worth millions someday, so don't even try to ask me if they are for sale.
The following day, I decided to try my luck again, this time donning full body armor I fashioned out of pillows and towels from the Sheraton Suites Hotel. Since most of the people from the day before were either dead or in jail, I had much better luck. I noticed these two bad boys right away and grabbed them:
Yeah, they are two old, rare blades dipped in ugly, but I couldn't resist. Yardhooks just feel so damn solid in the your hand. The blade catch comes in handy too when working in the lawn because sometimes my lawn fights back.
So, then came the Skeleton Key handout. I wanted one badly, but the crowd was back, in full swing, and I was unable to get to the basket in time. I was so disappointed and then they announced that the first 30 people to slam their head on the front table hard enough to draw blood would get a free MOAB. Before I could even move towards the table, I felt a sharp pain on each side of my body, around the kidney area. I dropped to me knee's and cried out for help, but no one came. I was able to crawl under David Brown's table and find out what this pain was coming from. I pulled out these two babies:
I had to clean the blood and kidney juice off of them, but they still look fine and are still very sharp. I have no idea who stuck me with them, but I suspect Eric "I look like Joe Rogan" Esmond. Oh yeah, the 30 free MOABs head bang was just a cruel joke that was played by the Busse staff. There were a lot of caved in heads and not a MOAB to be found.
An hour or so later, the blood was cleaned up, the bodies were zipped up and taken away and Blade continued. When I was brave enough, I would make my way back to the pit to catch a tag or two and hopefully leave with all my organs intact. I snagged some Trailing Rats:
Some "Fatter Than My Fat Brother" Fusion Steal Hearts:
A 1111111111111111111:
A thin RatManSomethingOrOther:
A Custom Satin Rat3 and an Active Doodie:
And then we come to these two blades. Both are TGLBM's but one is very cool looking and one is very UGLY!! I really wanted the competition version only, but this mean girl named Lexus, Pookie or something, said I couldn't have it unless I buy this Sage blade version with 1950's Diner Green scales as well. I mean, what was I going to do?
Oh yeah, and you know how sometimes you buy a blade and then later regret it? Well, my final blade is one of those blades. I mean, out of everything available at the show, I bought this giant piece of junk. What was I thinking? I mean, who wants something this ugly and stupid looking?!?! Seriously, this one blade makes me want to throw my entire collection in the trash and give up on knives altogether. After that I may wreck my car, burn my house down and walk to Mexico. Why Mexico? Cause I am in Texas and it's only like 200 miles away!! I could start a new life there and be the Billy Badass that I always wanted to be. I could be a cattle rustler, a crooked farmer or maybe even work for a touristy resort!! Oh, yeah, here is the knife:
A @#$%^&!@ MOAB!! Okay, all BS aside, I was so happy to get this. I got very lucky, was in the right place, had some nice tears going and bam!! As Rob Stanley said, you have to use this knife and once I get a sheath for it, I will. Maybe, well, I dunno, probably, we'll see.
In case you hadn't figured it out, everything I said above was pure fiction laced with overblown sarcasm.
I wanted to thank everyone from Busse for another great show. Thanks for the food, the beer and the 2.5 day hangover I suffered. It was all worth it, well, once the hangover was gone, it was. I had a bunch of other stuff I wanted to add about cool people I met and hung out with, but they know it already, I made it clear in my sober and/or drunken state!
I do have to add one particular note, though. Busse has a lot of trade secrets that they would like to remain secrets. Being the immature person that I am, I tried my hardest to get something, anything out of one of them. Not for malicious reasons, but just to see if I could and then never repeat it again. Let's just say I failed miserably. You would have a better chance of beating "The Riddle Of Steel" out of Schwarzenegger's Conan than you would getting secrets out of Busse staff. They are a great bunch!! And is it me or does Garth always have that "Thousand Yard Stare" in every picture? Yeah, you can catch a smile here and there, but it's pretty rare. I did want to leave you with this pic, though, because "Sage" is sorta like "Dark Earth"???
See you all at Blade 2014!!
Havoc550/Tim Bujnoch
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I'm glad you enjoyed yourself, thanks for sharing the pictures. :thumbup: