While I do agree Coca Cola is an unnecessary necessity, I disagree about knives. They’ve proven very useful around dinnertime and make for great screwdrivers in a pinch.
@njfan A decent knife is a useful tool. My personal favorite is an Opinel #7 with a carbon-steel blade. It is elegantly simple, not ostentatious or imposing in any regard, and it is functional. At least 98% of the “knives” I see for sale are engimmicked to appeal to somebody’s inner 12-year-old. My second-favorite is the old US-made Old Timer three-blade, but those haven’t been available for over thirty years, and the steel used in their replacements is just not the same. If I could still get the original ones, they’d be my favorite, but the Opinel is plenty good enough. Third place is a folding utility knife WITHOUT a lockback. It can be instantly made sharp with a blade swap so that I need not be too worried about the indignities I may be visiting upon it. Nothing of the nature of such as these will be likely to show up here. They aren’t Cool or Sexy or any of the other things that marketers want buyers to associate with their merch.
565 W Apache Trail, Apache Junction, AZ. Their website has apparently been “under construction” since 2016, but I get the impression that they’re a lot like Archie McPhee.
I’ll take the giant blow up alien.
@PooltoyWolf I already got a few… they came by to do an Exam. they discovered that I was weirder than they were, so they just hung around!
@mycya4me Hahaha
While I do agree Coca Cola is an unnecessary necessity, I disagree about knives. They’ve proven very useful around dinnertime and make for great screwdrivers in a pinch.
@njfan A decent knife is a useful tool. My personal favorite is an Opinel #7 with a carbon-steel blade. It is elegantly simple, not ostentatious or imposing in any regard, and it is functional. At least 98% of the “knives” I see for sale are engimmicked to appeal to somebody’s inner 12-year-old. My second-favorite is the old US-made Old Timer three-blade, but those haven’t been available for over thirty years, and the steel used in their replacements is just not the same. If I could still get the original ones, they’d be my favorite, but the Opinel is plenty good enough. Third place is a folding utility knife WITHOUT a lockback. It can be instantly made sharp with a blade swap so that I need not be too worried about the indignities I may be visiting upon it. Nothing of the nature of such as these will be likely to show up here. They aren’t Cool or Sexy or any of the other things that marketers want buyers to associate with their merch.
@njfan @werehatrack I love my old Buck 110 Folding Hunter (I think from 1985), tho I only use it while camping.
@njfan @werehatrack - Dexter?
@kdemo @njfan Dexter is good in the kitchen, but they don’t do pocket knives. If they did, I suspect they’d be front-line good.
@werehatrack - Is Dexter a knife company? Was it named after the tv show?
I meant to ask if you were Dexter Morgan.
Fail.
@njfan Knives are necessary, but I’d say $1 knives are not.
@kdemo Dexter is a real US manufacturer of high quality cutlery.
565 W Apache Trail, Apache Junction, AZ. Their website has apparently been “under construction” since 2016, but I get the impression that they’re a lot like Archie McPhee.
“Meh” pretty much says it all.
Meh-mentos… and not just meh mentos