SouthWest Khukri Khonvention (SWKK)

I don't know if all of you have noticed but the khuk Gin is holding in this group pic is the same one she is shown holding in her avatar.
I figured it was time Gin got too hold it for real.:D :cool: :D
Of course it is the famous as forged chainpuri blade I took artistic license with and put the African Knobthorn Handle on with copper fittings.
Uncle Bill always said it was one of his favorite khukuris; means a lot too me.:D

A note on the 20"+ 28 ounce Foxy Folly that Norm snagged. I wish I had gotten one of those two. -IF- all of the original Foxy Folly run had of been that weight and that nice we wouldn't be doing the shortened version of the Foxy Folly!!!! :grumpy: There are only two of this model this weight and they should only escalate in value as they are true collector's items and -They-Rock-!!!! :cool:

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munk said:
I just have one question: who is that huge fat bast%$d in the red shirt? Not me? Gawd...!)
BTW, I was VERY dissapointed to see that Dan had a boatload of knives for sale on Saturday, including the elusive horn kerambit and walnut JKM's I have been looking for, and you guys ignored my email about waiting and sharked them all up! I hope you are ashamed of yourselves...!>>>>>>>> Swastar


Apparently you were unable to instill either sufficient fear or respect in us.


munk
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Brad:

I waited 3 full days to respond here, so hope you will realize this is not a knee-jerk reaction. I am responding publicly in the same manner.

I find your deliberate cut & paste and transposition of the first portion and the very last portion of my huge mail very telling. IMO this is classic passive/aggressive behavior.

I do not wish to be feared, however I do wish to be respected, and think I have earned that right. My physical appearance should be irrelevant to that goal, so your choice of sentences from which to cut & paste is revealing as to your intentions to say the least. The implication is clear. You seem to specialize in small passive / aggressive comments, and when pressed say you were just kidding. My original mail about holding the specials contained a smiley face. I WAS kidding. I think everyone got that. Well, evidently, _almost_ everyone.

There is obviously something about me that rubs you the wrong way. No sweat, I've been disliked before for both valid reasons and no reason at all, but I would like to get past this. I have my own very distinct idea as to why this is so, but will keep my armchair psychological theories to myself.

Finally, for the second (or is it 3rd?) time, my screen name is Svashtar. S-V-A-S-H-T-A-R. Not "Swashstar" or "Swashter" or "Swastar" or "Swishter" or any of the other knee-slapping variants I have seen from you. It is a conjugation of the words "Sredni Vashtar", which is the title of classic short story by H.H. Munro. Since you stated that you have read so much more than anyone here, I'm sure you have heard of him. Your explanation that it "just happens" when you are typing just doesn't fly anymore. The "W" key is at the top left of the keyboard. The "V" is on the bottom row more towards the right. It would be far more likely for me to continually call you "Mink", as the "U" and "I" keys are right next to each other. I doubt if you would appreciate that type of continued and deliberate typing "mistake." (For that matter "punk" and "bunk" are also humorous "accidental" variants on your screen name.)

I'm trying to keep the tone and the spirit of the Cantina here. I think I have been a pretty good forumite. I have done my very best to support HI and this forum. With that spirit in mind I have tried to avoid conflicts.

I'm not trying to make a big deal about this (well, maybe I am!), but my screen name is my identity here. The confusion this has already caused is apparent as Gin wrote my name with a "W" for the khuk drawing at her house. I have asked you politely and you continue to mangle it. I have also given you the option of just calling me "Norm", if my screen name is too challenging for you, but you persist, so I can only assume that it, along with your selective culling of my messages for effect, is deliberate.

I can only wonder what other forumites would do in this situation. For instance if you continually referred to Nasty as "Pasty" or "Tasty" or "Hasty". (?) Or to Yvsa as "Visa". Or to Ad Astra as "Mad Asstra", etc., etc. Somehow it only seems to happen to me. (After meeting Nasty at the Khonvention, I suspect his response would involve an all day and all night motorcycle ride in a northwesterly direction, followed by a spectacular ass-whipping, but I could be wrong.)

I am asking you publicly to either declare what is bothering you and get it out in the open, or desist in your little shots and screen name distortion. If you would like to continue, then I'll ask Yvsa and Howard to help. If it still continues I'll ask Blues to step in and see if we can work this out.

Thanks very much.

Norm
 
I'm going to play moderator here and send both of you to email...

I like you both too much to whup both your asses.

Go to your email programs and stay there until you can both agree to behave nicely in public.

With regards and respect to both of you...

~Nasty, self appointed Cantina Sgt at Arms

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Nasty said:
I'm going to play moderator here and send both of you to email...

I like you both too much to whup both your asses.

Go to your email programs and stay there until you can both agree to behave nicely in public.

With regards and respect to both of you...

~Nasty, self appointed Cantina Sgt at Arms

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OK, fair enough. Thanks Nasty. I debated sending an e-mail, but the posts have been public so I responded publicly. Being nice wasn't one of my initial considerations. I have found that the best way to deal with certain behaviors is to confront them directly, however I am willing to admit that my method may have been lacking. I'll be glad to take this offline.

Regards,

Norm
 
Thanks Norm...

Nasty
Sometimes Hasty, Always Tasty, Only Pasty during Ohio winters
 
Dear Norm,

I've said in the past you are a fine man and meant it. I have nothing against you nor anything on the back burner 'passive aggressive' The only reason I 'cut and pasted' those quotes of yours were to stretch and make a feeble joke- not at you, at your expense, or anything like that. My joke to me meant Norm was a very good man who though large didn't scare his friends. He was plain good and wouldn't or couldn't. If my humor failed that's the price of showbiz, but means nothing about how I feel about you or what I attempted.

As for misspelling your name, I tried to explain this to you once before and will again; I have a learning disability. There are some names and words I cannot spell right very often. There are some words, it might amuse you to know, that I use every day, and still must look up in the dictionary to verify the proper spelling. Sometimes I get confused on how to spell 'friend' for instance; I'm not sure if the i should come after or before the e, I know the little rhyme but can't remember all the exceptions. Late at night I might even be tired enough to look it up.

Your name, Kampfjaeger (if I spelled that right) and Eikerverang's are classic misspellings for me. I have to look them up every single damn time I use them. It would be like having to look up a phone number every time you called a friend, even though you called him twice weekly for 10 years. Last time I posted to Kampf I called him Kampf as I didn't know the rest. I've mispelled just about everyone's name, including Semper fi's, Bruiselee's, forgetting it was ie or ei; and T1pani is real hard for me, as you can see. These are just a few.

I'm not upset by your post. I appreciate your airing out your stand and feelings on this matter. I think Nasty jumped the gun right after but that's OK- People are people around here- I can't guarentee how my jokes will fly every time, and don't know what you or Nasty might do every post or every day. Isn't that why we are a community of friends?

I hope this relieves you. I'm your friend munk. I had no idea this was going on from your perspective.

take care,


munk
 
See...as I said...sometimes Hasty.

Ahh...Things are back to normal and I'm the chump.

Peace in the Cantina. Worthwhile...

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Nasty said:
Ahh...Things are back to normal and I'm the chump.
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Durn Dune loving chump.
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I've probably offended some folks in the past. No one's threatened to beat me up yet. Maybe I type like a big guy. :) :rolleyes:
 
BruiseLeee said:
Durn Dune loving chump.
:grumpy:

I've probably offended some folks in the past. No one's threatened to beat me up yet. Maybe I type like a big guy. :) :rolleyes:
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It's that red thing in your icon's hand.

It looks like a heart you've pulled from the chest of your enemy.


Scarrrry Bruise
 
45-70 said:
It's that red thing in your icon's hand.

It looks like a heart you've pulled from the chest of your enemy.
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That, and the fact that your icon looks like it's sad that the fight is over... :(

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I saw Bruise stomp a guy with both feet in "Enter the Dragon." No way I'm messing with him.
 
Thanks for responding and clarifying Munk. I don't think there would have been the misunderstanding had the humor exchange been made in person. I obviously read something into your post that was not intended, and although I waited a few days I still got it wrong. Plain text is a poor way to communicate, and even though I don't much care for idea of the smileys and other emoticons, I do try to use them to help out in that regard.

My wife say's I'm too defensive, (but what the hell does she know and who is she to say ANYWAY!!? :mad: ) Actually, I have to admit (for once!) that she is probably right. My analogy is that if you kick a dog 50 times, the next time you walk by innocently he's going to cover up, (or take a chunk out of your leg!) I grew up being put down on a daily basis by someone who was impossible to please, and so now find that I tend to overreact even when no insult is intended.

Please accept my apology for the public flare-up. As I mentioned via email, I should probably break down and get a new screen name, as this one is just not the easiest to type or remember. Maybe I'll poll the group here for a new name. (?) (Please no 3 stooges suggestions.) I remember Dan went from PENDENTIVE to just plain old Daniel Koster, but I don't know if I'm ready for anything that extreme! (-:

Regards,

Norm

P.S. Thanks to the Cantina Sgt. At Arms for escorting the trouble maker outside and away from the bar! :)
 
Norm, I'm just sorry I spelled your name wrong so many times. I didn't even know. I'm sorry. Never forget just because someone's smart doesn't make them not stupid. It probably seems impossible I can write with facility yet be so challenged. (Actually, I think that is pretty standard dyslexic diagnosis stuff) It's worse when I'm tired.

Some of my recent "life" posts I've gotten a kick out of. But I can see a new territory looming. I wonder what you guy's would think if you knew how clumsy my brain and life really were? Easy horsey, easy.

I grew up stuttering. I had five words ready to go at all times in case the first one started to fail on me: 'a duh, a duh, a..."

I read so young, and so fast, the words were collections of visual recognitions;symbols. I didn't know how to pronounce them. I dunno; maybe like Chinese. Svashtar is a key of a few related looking things. I knew the word, but that didn't mean I could spell it. And even after learning how to spell it, I'd forget. That's the most frustrating: these things don't stay learned. Friend or freind?
What do you think debtormined meant until I was about 17? Determined. I'd never heard it pronounced.

I've made so many crazy moves in my life. Can you imagine me as an engineer? I was great at geometry but nothing else. That's me: Space. The dumb things I've done to stereos and firearms and other products- real embarresing. When I'm laying under a truck about to turn a bolt, I have to spin my hands in the air to figure out which way to turn. When I adjust a front sight of a firearm, I have to put my hands in the air and mimic the actions first.
When I was young, before the decade of self destruction, I had so much extra brain capacity I could juggle all my flaws. You never knew it. I'm just a Cluck today. I forget things. The ADD and sleep apnea...dyslexia, hammer blows to the head, lack of food all the drinking years... it's a wonder I can tie my shoes. When I write well, and I see myself, I realize my life is like a intuitive stream, I'm cast off and floating along. I don't think I'm Finnegan's Wake. I hope no one here is Finnegan's Wake. ( And when all 67 citizens of the Continental US get together who read Finnegan's Wake, understood Finnegan's Wake, and LIKED Finnegan's Wake I hope what goes on in that Holiday Express conference room stays in that room. Even the flies on the wall would drop for boredom. We could put the whole lot of them into a space craft and shoot them towards a distance civilization. That would prevent colonization or attack upon Earth.)

And about tying shoes; it annoys me terribly. People were surprised to find Thomas Edison couldn't do the more involved calculations of his ideas. "If I want to do math, I'll hire a mathematician," he snarled. I feel that way about almost everything. I'm tired of tying my shoes. I don't want to spell the words right; there's ten million of them and I'm outnumbered. I dont like dirty underwear, dirty dishes, old paint, a car needing an oil change, a company billing you without cause, the wind blowing too hard, being cold, being too hot, getting bitten by a mosquito, firing a gun only to have to clean it....that's how I feel about Life; if you use it, you have to clean it when you're done.

I want an invisible Angel to follow me around and take care of all that stuff.
I don't want to bark my shins on the table, or break my toe one more time tripping on the bottom step over a toy. I'm tired. The 'stuff' is winning. The death of a thousand blows. I'm a cranky commander of my ship; when I have to, I fix something before the boiler blows.

You guys get a kick out of munk family life. The inner munk brain would probably have you split between laughter and revulsion. Did I ever tell you how many females I'd like to fertilize? Oops; this is a family channel.

Anyway Norm, every once in awhile something happens that reminds me of how easily we hurt ourselves and each other for nothing. If I'd know this was building I'd have talked to you a long time ago. I like to think this Forum is still the refuge Rusty and Uncle Bill built for Hearts and Souls. As long as I'm a moderator, explosions like yours made in good faith amongst friends are welcome. We got to get it out and we must trust we can fix, let it go, or overcome. Otherwise we're not the community we talk about. It is paper or electrons only.

It's only symbols I can't spell right, instead of friends.

munk

PS, Hollowdweller, if you're listening, I give up: there's a lot of rocks where you live.
 
....does anyone remember Army of Darkness? Bruce Campbell is about to get the Mystical Book and has to say the three or so words right. "Yeah yeah; I know the words." He told the old man who instructed him. But he's forgotten them. The third word he says and coughs into his hand, hoping it's muffled and will be close enough....instead he raises the Army of the Undead.

I thought that was damn funny. For obvious reason.




munk
 
"Never forget just because someone's smart doesn't make them not stupid."

~ munk


Now that is a great line. Swashter, I mean Svashtar, I wouldn't change your name. I think your name is pretty cool. Of course, if this is one of those times in life where it is time to grow, then by all means. Otherwise I say keep it.


Bruise, you type like THE big guy.

~ tampoo
 
The line should read; "Never forget just because someone's smart doesn't mean they're not stupid."

my favorite; "That's how I feel about life; if you use it, you have to clean it when you're done."


munk
 
Bamboo said:
~ tampoo
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Tampoo ~ The alternate of a Tampon.:eek: :rolleyes:
Just goes about an inch or two behind in the cycle of life, or something.:D ;) :p











Just absolutely could not resist this one! <VBESEG> :D
LMFRRAO!!!! :footinmou
 
Be careful what you joke about in Bizarro World: it'll be on the shelves for sale six months aftewards.



munk
 
Yvsa said:
Tampoo ~ The alternate of a Tampon.:eek: :rolleyes:
Just goes about an inch or two behind in the cycle of life, or something.:D ;) :p

Just absolutely could not resist this one! <VBESEG> :D
LMFRRAO!!!! :footinmou
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ROTFLMAO :D :D :D
 
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