Sure, and I'll add sexy to barbaric and fun re meat clevers --

im not sure what is going on there, but it doesnt look sexy to me, it looks scary,LOL... Id I had to guess though it looks like he is testing the cut resistance of some kind of silicon mat on top of a girls back? at least I hope its something like that...

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Close, it's of a chef showing off his skills chopping food on a napkin on a woman's bare back.

Maybe that was a bad example but knife skills can be sexy don't you think?

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Knife skills can be sexy; I think because they illustrate supreme competence. The photo above, uh, not feeling titillated by it, me

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> It appears that coconuts are migratory. who'd
> have thought...???
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"Pull the other one"

"You say you've ridden here on a horse? You've got two coconuts and your bangen em tegeda!"

"Sooooo?"



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 12/15/2010 12:11PM by loeve.

So I tried the machete (single chop) method experimenting on a brown coconut, noting there are times to gently cut on the equator and times to cut pole to pole, this being the later. I sharpened the blade, put on my safey glasses, went outdoors and set the old coconut on a chopping block and took a huge swing down on it impacting about 3cm off center. It wasn't accurate enough just grazing the hard shell and violently glancing off to the side. So I set it up again, the second swing coming down about 2cm off center taking out a good chunk of one hemisphere sending it in shattered pieces scattered a few meters away, the machete again sharply glancing off to the side. I think I'll stick to tapping around the equator with a hammer when using mature coconuts.

One of these days I hope to get some green coconuts to practice on.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 12/16/2010 12:09PM by loeve.

> "Pull the other one"
>
> "You say you've ridden here on a horse? You've
> got two coconuts and your bangen em tegeda!"


I was just thinking the Monty Python coconut clip deserved a proper quote --

ARTHUR: Whoa there!
[clop clop]
GUARD #1: Halt! Who goes there?
ARTHUR: It is I, Arthur, son of Uther Pendragon, from the castle
of Camelot. King of the Britons, defeator of the Saxons,
sovereign of all England!
GUARD #1: Pull the other one!
ARTHUR: I am. And this my trusty servant Patsy. We have
ridden the length and breadth of the land in search of knights
who will join me in my court of Camelot. I must speak with your
lord and master.
GUARD #1: What, ridden on a horse?
ARTHUR: Yes!
GUARD #1: You're using coconuts!
ARTHUR: What?
GUARD #1: You've got two empty halves of coconut and you're
bangin' 'em together.
ARTHUR: So? We have ridden since the snows of winter covered
this land, through the kingdom of Mercea, through--
GUARD #1: Where'd you get the coconut?
ARTHUR: We found them.
GUARD #1: Found them? In Mercea? The coconut's tropical!
ARTHUR: What do you mean?
GUARD #1: Well, this is a temperate zone.
ARTHUR: The swallow may fly south with the sun or the house
martin or the plover may seek warmer climes in winter yet these
are not strangers to our land.
GUARD #1: Are you suggesting coconuts are migratory?
ARTHUR: Not at all, they could be carried.
GUARD #1: What -- a swallow carrying a coconut?
ARTHUR: It could grip it by the husk!
GUARD #1: It's not a question of where he grips it! It's a
simple question of weight ratios! A five ounce bird could not
carry a 1 pound coconut.

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LOL, amazing knives they were!