The Saturday Night Live channel on YouTube has posted “Midday with Jennifer Hicks”. This is the “interviews with Bond villains” sketch that contains the frequently quoted (in my circles) line, “I question the wisdom of having a self-destruct button at all.”
(See also, especially number 9, number 9, number 9…)
This surfaced on Twitter, and I have not seen it before. I wouldn’t say I can’t stop laughing, but it does make me giggle.
— Chris “Wear A Mask” Driver (@Jerkwheatery) June 30, 2020
I wasn’t a regular “Magnum” watcher when it was on the air, but I sometimes think I should go back and watch from the beginning. (In addition to doing the same with “Blue Bloods”.)
Oddly, though, I have a weird allergic reaction to “Quigley Down Under”, and I don’t know why: that movie should push my buttons, and I’d kind of like to have an (accurate) reproduction of the movie gun.
I’ve done gun stuff. But I haven’t done any knife stuff. Until now.
“The KA-BAR Story”. I know, this is a little on the long side. Perhaps bookmark it for later.
I don’t actually own any KA-BARs, though I’ve thought about getting one: all my sheath knives are Buck or Gerber. (And one Benchmade, though that’s really more of a karambit.)
Bonus #1: “KA-BAR Knife Tips and Mods”, from Blackie Thomas.
Bonus #2: “Making Knives, the History of the Bowie Knife, and the Rambo Knives”, from A.G. Russell Knives.
Bonus #3: I wouldn’t ordinarily do four videos in one post, but this one is short and relevant to Lawrence‘s interests: David Morrell talks about the Rambo knife, from the audio commentary on the DVD.
As I understand it (and based in part on this article) the knives for the first two movies were made by Jimmy Lile, a legendary Arkansas knife maker. He passed away in 1991, but his successors are still making knives under his name. You can still buy a version of the Rambo knife from them if you have $2,000 and up to spend.
The knives for the third and fourth movies were made by Gil Hibben. It looks like you can still get a version of the knife from the third movie…if you have $2,000 to spend.
Or you can purchase replicas of varying quality, as anybody who goes to a gun show knows.
“You can’t give her that!’ she screamed. ‘It’s not safe!’
IT’S A SWORD, said the Hogfather. THEY’RE NOT MEANT TO BE SAFE.
‘She’s a child!’ shouted Crumley.
IT’S EDUCATIONAL.
‘What if she cuts herself?’
THAT WILL BE AN IMPORTANT LESSON.”