Happened to be in a Home Depot this afternoon, in the big town about 50 miles away. For obvious reasons I’m not exactly on the cutting edge of societal trends, but even I have noticed that the big box store habit of packaging absurd numbers of things may have jumped the shark. A perfect example was on the impulse-buy rack while D was getting his water softener salt rung up…
Mind you, I find the folding utility knife a delightful development. I bought a cheap one a few months ago just to see if it was useful, and it truly is. Unnecessary, but nice. I might have been tempted by a better one at a good price, but just one wasn’t available. Buy this package, and I’d have a good start on a peculiar sort of collection.
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They say that Louis XIV had the inscription Ultima Ratio Regum cast into all the cannon of the French Army. It means “The Ultimate Argument of Kings,” and that always struck me as one of the most honest and up-front things any ruler or would-be ruler ever said. “We can dress it up prettier than this, but when it comes down to the unvarnished truth this is what it’s about: You’ll do as I say or I’ll send my goons to kill you.”
I thought about that for a long time. If there’s an ultimate argument, it seems only logical that there must be an ultimate answer. For years I thought the ultimate answer must be the bullets in my rifle, but it never seemed quite right. I’ve got bullets – he’s got frigging Cannon Balls. I mean, if there were three hundred million rifles throwing bullets at him, then maybe. But we all know that’s not going to happen. So if there’s an ultimate answer to his ultimate argument, it sure as hell ain’t bullets.
It finally came to me – and that’s when I abandoned the city and most of my stuff, and gave all that was behind me a good stiff Randian Shrug.
The ultimate answer to kings is not a bullet, but a belly laugh.
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I have bought them in a three pack. One for the truck, one for the,pocket, one to lose.
Ditto – and I did lose one, one was stolen -hard to believe. Carry mine everywhere, every day, as others might carry a concealed weapon. And always with a newish very sharp blade. I like it much better than a pocket knife.
One of my sons uses his to field dress moose. I perfer a knife myself unless I’m cutting visqueen or tar paper or the like.
I’ve been meaning to ask our airport security if taking one of these sans blades on an airplane would be legal. Buy the cheap blades at destination, throw away blade when flying back. Gerber EAB design, little folder. Not a problem with checked in, maybe an issue if a carry-on.
@howard
I can only imagine the mess that must leave in the blade carrier… Not a bad idea though for my friends who are incapable of sharpening a knife. I may have to suggest that. As far as dressing, did one deer with a two blade broadhead on the broken stump of an arrow and that worked surprisingly well.
@anonymous
I like that idea, I may have to look into that next time I fly. I usually just stash a cheap enough/good enough* kinfe in the checked bag somewhere and hope its still there when I arrive, but that feels like a better FU solution to the TSA.
*Gerber Evo Jr fine edge
http://www.amazon.com/Gerber-22-41492-Fine-Edge-Knife/dp/B000VW64Y
I pick one up whenever I see one in the store. Cheap enough that I don’t cry when I break/lose one because I have at least one or two more at home still packaged, also I’m not adverse to doing something questionable (prying, using the tip as a screw driver, pulling staples, etc) that you wouldn’t want to do with a “Good” knife. Good enough that I don’t sit there thinking “Why did I buy this piece of crap?!” when I need to use it for something that requires a decent knife.