Jerry Van Dyke, the best Van Dyke

As another Lame Cherry exclusive in matter anti matter.


I always had a great admiration for Jerry Van Dyke, as being the brother of Dick Van Dyke who ruled America from the 1960's onward had to be a trial for Jerry, as you have to wonder why you could not get a break in what his brother had and he did not.

Jerry Van Dyke's one big role was in John Wayne's McClintock, as a nifty dude, everyone hated as he as such a dork. That was until he was cast on Coach with Craig T. Nelson and the character Jerry played in Luther Van Dam, made everyone forget Dick Van Dyke, as in reruns, Dick is not the least bit funny anymore.

Jerry though shown with a comedic light, and Barry Kemp (the creator of Newhart) found one of the strangest teams in Nelson, Fabres and Van Dyke to produce a timeless comedy. Nothing fit better than the stupid Luther with the shallow Coach.

You are suppose to feel sad when people die, but I have only happy memories  of Jerry Van Dyke in how much I admire him. This is a man who lived in his brother's shadow for 25 years, before his opportunity came, and then he created a character which will always be endearing in comedy, as Alan Hale on Gilligan's  Island or Larry Hovis on Hogan's Heroes.
I am glad that Jerry is no longer suffering from medical complications, because the joy he brought and is still bringing is the gift he brought to the world. Most people would have given up in having a legend as a brother, but not Jerry Van Dyke. He proved that he  was the Laurel and Hardy of this generation.

God be with Jerry's wife, Shirley, and all who mourn, because he gave a rare gift to this world in perseverance through the tears brings laughter.


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Kershaw Model 1790

 

As another Lame Cherry exclusive in matter anti matter.


After the crappy day I have just had, it is nice to get a letter from Captain Kirk who was offering to send me an assisted opening knife. Others have offered to arm me, put me in pots and pans, to books, but my concern is too close of contact might make people popular with those in alphabet agencies, so I relish in the offers as the thought does count.

As for the crappy day or days, I got the cattle fed, meaning I got ready in opening fence, turning off the electric fencer, and was looking forward to a nice warm up, when I plugged the fencer in  and it would not work. Yes it worked just fine when I unplugged it, so I put a back up on, and it worked, and the next day it kept tripping the breaker. So as the other one warmed up and seemed to work, I put it back, but there  was not much of a spark,  so plugging through snow, I checked fence....still did not work worth a chit, and here I sit, wondering about fencers  and the great news of another dead cat, or two, and things seemed to have walked off in not being where they should be in the house in a 4 hour search today, so I sat down and here was Captain Kirk's letter.

Oh how I wish I had a way to send you things. Read your post on assisted opening knives - One that I used to carry - Kershaw model 1790 (they don't make them anymore), with their "speedsafe" assisted opening (looks like they use the liner lock as a spring to open it). It opens faster than most "real" switchblades, decent steel (Swedish stainless I think - 13crMOV) and very solid - definitely a generational knife. I think I paid around $35 for it. I like a "toothy" edge (medium grit stones only), and this one has an edge that will bleed you if you look at it funny. If I had a way to get it to you, I'd be proud to have you carry it. Handle is a bit small for me, and I like big folders (4"+ blades) for my carry (this one is 3"). If you ever have a way for me to mail it - it's yours, as well as some other things I'd love to give you. Just thinking about you guys.

Captain

This letter really lifted my heart and was just what I needed in being thought of. I like reading the judgments of others on products. I also like steel talk as most people have no idea about blade steel and the attributes of them.
For those not familiar with knives, just think of Rex Applegate, or the knife you have seen in old war movies. That is about as complete as a killing tool since the Romans set the legions out with their cutting edges.
Knife play is difficult as they get slippery with lubrication in use, and that means a good grip is a necessity, along with a guard as one does not want to hit a bone and end up slicing your fingers off as your hand slips off the handle onto the blade. There is a great deal of thought in a military or carry knife in the design. Those that work are few and those one regrets are many, like the one I posted on from Remington.

It is an odd thing about edges, in the sharper the edge like a razor blade feels like a burn to me when cutting, while I have found myself bleeding with a Schrade out of the box in not being aware I had even sliced myself.

Actually I am playing with now a fish bat. At least it is hanging in the doorway and I am banging my head on it daily. I once saw a black in hospital that a state trooper cracked his skull open with a baton, and that guys head was swelled up twice normal. Odd the damage the police do and still have a fondness for firearms.
I am thinking now of designing one out of a large bolt and various things to make it user friendly.

It is nice being thought of and nice that I now can go look up this knife and study it, and as you can see I looked this knife up while typing this up and that Kershaw will get you there and back.

I like ending the day this way. It  put a smile on my face and as I watch Raymond Burr scowl at Godzilla, I think that someone should have made a movie called BURRZILLA. You could just see Raymond Burr eating Japan, until the heroine whipped out her fast action knife and cut his testicles off as nothing tames nuclear mutant monsters faster than cutting three testicles off Godzilla.  Most people do not know that is the secret of monsters in they have 3 testicles. Big Foot, Swamp Thing, Elvira......they all have 3 testicles.

That Kansas girl is even prettier in person than in character. Just joking about Elvira and 3 testes as that is called comic reverse.



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2020 Bannonsight

As another Lame Cherry exclusive in matter anti matter.

This is for those who are tired of being led around by the nose in missing we are all in another Donald Trump WWE event again, scripted just like 2016, like all of this bullshit is a diversion to keep you tuning in next week to see what the Trump Event will be in him raging in the ring.

For those who have no idea about what this is about, in Steve Bannon and Donald Trump feuding, how about a reality check in have you ever known anyone who worked for Donald Trump, not being invited in, called and being Donald Trump's best buddy when Trump humiliates them in firing them?

OK Bannon and Trump knocked off Judge Roy Moore, the 2020 contender to primary Donald Trump. Now we have Bannon rumored to be running the 2020 candidate to primary Donald Trump in this feud. Bannon is your venting about all things Jew and all things Kushner.

Then you have Christian hater, Matt Drudge, weighing in and doing the Blood Libel on Steve Bannon, in all the Jew press is going to get their pound of Bannon flesh, as sides are drawn and sides are taken, to get you all fever to, to get your ass out and vote for 2018 AD in the year of our Lord.

So Steve Bannon represents all things hated by the #NeverTrumpers, Hell even that cuck Jonah Goldberg was teeing off on Bannon.......which means Goldberg is bending at the waist for Donald Trump as Big Jew comes hard for Donald.

In fact, by responding to Bannon with such ferocity, Trump has helped resurrect Bannon’s prospects. Fleas are swatted away, not nuked with presidential statements. Bannon is a big personality, a big player, and Trump is mistaken if he thinks he is going to crush him or even wound him without consequence.

And yes, even Dame Edna Mercer has gone fickle on Steve Bannon. Odd how you have all the Conservative Christians for Roy Moore, all cut to the wind for baby butcher Doug Jones, and there is Steve Bannon being cut to the wind........but for a mysterious Guo Wen Gui, a Chicom now the ally of American Nationalism as Steve Bannon once again fillets off not only Roy Moore, but Paul Nehlen in the Alt Right in marginalizing them.







You are missing the board again, in this game. You know the Bushites  are going to run Romney at Donald Trump in 2020. You now know that Steve Bannon is going to lead out some trusting Christian again to get crucified in 2020

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  RINO Squish Mitt Romney is the Last Person We Need in the Senate: The Poster-Boy for the Status Quo

You really need this move for move played for you? Donad Trump knows what he has been up to. He has the burger clappers who do not pay attention. There are the #NeverTrumpers and there is the real American group who is not sucking on the Trump green kool ade as they had enough of that deception under Bush 1 and 2.
So Donald Trump lets the opposition vent on his terms, and beats them. He runs this operation, as he does not intend to be HW Bush with Pat Buchanan or Jimmy Carter with Teddy Kennedy in getting his as handed to him in a loss.

The Lame Cherry probably should have let you get a collar callous in being on the Trump leash led around, but you probably will enjoy this more looking at the crib notes of the popular girl's exclusive in matter anti matter again.
See this blog works for God. God moved me to rewrite the time line for 2016 AD in the year of the Lord to elect Donald Trump. I knew his WWE game and I know the forensic psychology of how to trigger Mr. WWE. I have no intention though of being an arena groupie as while I know Joaquin Phoenix is the greatest actor of all time, I also know he is not Johnny Cash.

I wonder if this scheme will still work after everyone finds out about it. I wonder is those rich people will be donating huge sums of money to the Lame Cherry for these exclusives over the years, as Donald Trump is making them super rich in surging stock markets and all those tax breaks they are getting

Well enough of this, who do you think I am, Mean Gene Okerland.

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The Assisted Opening Knife

Time to start hunting bigger Hogs

As another Lame Cherry exclusive in matter anti matter.

I was able to test a few Assisted Opening Knives, as like all children I have always been fascinated with switchblade knives.

The industry found away around illegal switchblades which is another ridiculous regime intrusion like "assault weapons" in firearms, as a switchblade is no more deadly than a steak knife.

The two versions of Assisted Opening Knives I tested were Remington and Schrade. I have a soft spot for Schrade as that is what my Trapper knives are in they have good steel, stay sharp and are easy to sharpen, along with being cheap.

I want to give away the punchline in this by stating, I think that if Remingon and Schrade combined their knives that they would have a good one. Seperate though they both are lacking. 




The Schrade was all metal, brushed metal handle. It was supposed to be assisted opening, but it was not. It is supposed to lock, but it did not lock. So much for Chinese manufacturing to take over the world. The point being the Chinamen can not make a knife or a dress worth a damn, so do not be too worried about sophisticated warfare as their chit will fall apart like their cheap ass DVD players as there is not any quality control in China.

The Schrade has a nice back handle assist to start the knife opening that I liked. It helps get the knife open for the thumb assist. But it is not spring assisted opening. This is an inferior product.

The blade was sharp and that was the best part. It is a danger though as it does not lock. As I stated, China has no quality control.







The Remington knives in which I had two to test, were at least assisted opening in once you started them they flew open. The problem is orange camo pictured worked quite well after a few times, but a regular camo knife in this, model is so stiff it will take a great deal of wear before it ever opens by the thumb.

I liked the Remington handle. It is plastic, but it has the feel of leather in being soft.

The drawback is the blade is not that sharp from the start and I fear it is not the kind of steel to last a generation.

The Remington has a belt clip on it where the knife if it sprung open on being caught, would slip it straight up. Not a good feature if it happens when you fall and you end up gutting yourself or worse.
In that the Schrade's blade opens down in the clip fastening, which is better of safety sake.

The design is good, but the size is not good, in it is too large for a woman's hand and too small for a man's hand.

These knives were closeouts, and I now realize why they were not selling as they simply did not have the proper design and were inferior quality control.

They will make adequate emergency pack knives, but in the Remingtons are too large to carry.

I always wanted an assisted opening knife, but these are not it. In fact, out of Ace Hardware last year I got a little lockback without any country of origin stamp for 2.99, which I carry to cut strings on frozen bales. That worthless little knife is a hundred times better than these major name brand models.

That is probably my last foray into assisted opening knives as they do not impress, any more than Buck knives do, which have too had of steel and are too big in your hand.



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The Lorain

As another Lame Cherry exclusive in matter anti matter.

I came across this old cook book from the 1920's, copyright in my printing, 1930 in a piece of history which few people ever contemplate and that is once upon a time there were not such things as thermostats on stoves. You had a valve and it was no or off, and if it was a cook stove with wood, you had a damper to try and control burning and hope that the wind was not gusting that day so you ended up with black bread and charred meat.

This was the Lorain Cooking, cookbook, and in the opening of this hardcover book it focused on the Loraine Oven Heat Regulator, which was quite an invention to actually control gas cooking stoves to maintain a proper heat that cooked and did not burn.


The book was priced 1 Dollar.......I paid 50 cents.  I doubt anyone was shelling out 1 dollar, but that this was some give away if you bought one of these stoves from the American Stove Company, St. Louis Missouri.

This company only lasted about 20 years it seems as it lists from the 1920's to 1930's, but this was NASA technology back then and it changed the world really for American women in the kitchen.

Cooking before this was a mix of moving things around on a stove, and setting draft, heating an oven, and then figuring out how long to cook it and turn it, as nothing came out of the oven pretty as a Betty Crocker picture.

I would be remiss if I wrapped up my brief look at the American Stove Company in Lorain without mentioning the famous Lorain Oven Heat Regulator, which is considered to be the first thermostat for manufactured kitchen ovens. It was invented by Benjamin E. Meacham, of Lorain, Ohio, who was the superintendent of the plant.

He designed his automatic heat control, called the "Lorain," in 1913 and tested it at home in his own kitchen for eighteen months. After the success of this test trial, the factory put it into production and the first range equipped with the device shipped in December 1914.

The American Stove Company adopted the regulator for all six of its divisions in 1919.

The thing is, this cook book from Lorain, is a good cook book. I mean it is not French cooking, but for a new housewife this thing gives you everything from baking bread to plum pudding to oven canning. That really interested me as my Grandpa always canned wild duck in the wood cook stove he had. No one did that and I never heard of anyone engaged in such things, and here was the process in this Lorain cook book.
There was also Rocks in there. I have a cut out cook book from my Gram, who was forever cutting out the worst recipes on the planet, and she had several recipes for Rocks. Rocks were cookies and were really the cat's meow back in the day in exotic cooking to impress the other ladies. I have not seen a reference to rocks except here, and in Lorain they are fixated on orange things too in sauces and frosting. That was what Gram had too in orange pies and things. People of that era growing up were fixated on lemons and oranges.




This is really a treasure in this cook book for it's historical window and insights to a part of world history which was most important as it was in the kitchen, and of an era of scientific advancement in refrigeration, Henry Ford cars, high strength steels, chemicals, fertilizers, herbicides to regulators on cook stoves.


This all sounds like nothing now with microwaves, but if you were a woman cooking or a family eating half raw or complete charred food, that gas regulator was a God send, just like gas was out of the ground, as your cities did not have coal smoke out of every house cooking food that all tasted like oil. This was the step in human advancement where great advances were appearing in medicine and industry.


I will end this with Maryland Chicken, and pay attention to singing the chicken, as chickens do have hairs on their skin and need to be singed. See in this period, people got chickens unsinged. Things have changed.

Maryland Chicken
350 degrees; Time; 1 1/2 hours
or
275 degrees; Time, 3 hours

1 chicken 4 1/2 to 5 pounds, 1 year old
1 1/2 teaspoon salt
1/8th teaspoon pepper
1 1/2 cup bread crumbs
1 egg
1/2 cup milk
1/2 cup boiling water

Singe the chicken and cut it into pieces. Wash thoroughly. Add the salt and pepper to the fine bread or cracker crumbs.
Beat the egg and add the milk.
Dip the pieces of chicken into the egg and milk mixture, then into the crumbs.

Repeat this process and and brown the chicken in deep fat heated to a temperature of 375 degrees Fahrenheit or in a frying pan in 4 tablespoons of melted fat.

Place in a baking dish and add 1/2 cup boiling water.

Cover and bake at either of the above temperatures.

As I close this visit in history up, notice two additional things, in this was all FAT, as in lard which was the cooking base. Crisco was not in wide spread use nor other oils like cotton seed. In addition, the reason the water was boiling is cold water would take too long to heat up in the oven, and actually cool the oven off. This was not the era of convection ovens in instant heat. This was the real world in how people had to learn to live in it rather than crushing the world around them in demands of things done in seconds.

 

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