"God made the world, but it's held together with duct tape".
Yet another Story in which defaming people and the Swiss Army Pocket Knife is becoming popular:BY J. Todd Foster Bristol Herald Courier |
If it were left up to Pablo Farkas, you wouldn’t know his name, except for his exploits on the tennis court. But Farkas had no say in the matter.
He became a news story after the 20-year-old sophomore transfer student and budding tennis star at Emory & Henry College was beaten up by several E&H football players last weekend at a huge off-campus party...
"There’s a lot of people who are passionate about E&H, as you can see," e-mailed one college administrator. "But I thought your story was very fair ... it’s hard to swallow bad news sometimes, but it’s only bad if we don’t choose to learn from it."
Instead of learning from it, however, some college supporters have gone into overdrive to make the victim the villain.
IN FACT, people who don’t know the first thing about Pablo Farkas have turned him into Pablo Escobar (think Medellín drug cartel). Countless college supporters are defaming Farkas as a knife-wielding thug who put several football players in fear of their lives.
Pure fiction.
It is true that Farkas carries a Swiss Army knife on his key chain. It has a dull blade less than 2 inches long.
He uses the contraption to open beers and trim his nails.
ON THE NIGHT of the party in question, however, Farkas says he was not carrying his Swiss Army knife. During a confrontation with four to five football players, he was reaching into his pocket to answer his cell phone "and they [football players] might of thought it was a knife," Farkas e-mailed me Friday.
The knife story really had its roots in a previous off-campus party in which Farkas is said to have used the Swiss Army knife to open a beer while he was talking to a football player’s girlfriend.
"First off, the whole knife incident is bulls---," Farkas wrote in typical e-mail shorthand, without regard to spelling or punctuation...
"... it does not take 4 to 5 huge football players to subdue little ol me I’m only five seven skinny less than 160 pounds," he wrote...
Farkas concedes he did not back down when confronted by the football players just after midnight on Sept. 23. "... my blood pressure is high and I am having trouble focusing I don’t know why ... oh yeah that’s right I got the holy crap beat out of me, I probably did what all those kids that have gotten picked on all their lives and been pushed around always wanted to do ... yeah I STOOD UP TO THEM ... didn’t kneel which I’m sure some of them are not used to."
Here are the mission statements of Knife Rights, Inc., the 501(c)(4) membership advocacy organization, and Knife Rights Foundation, Inc., the 501(c)(3) charitable educational foundation:
Knife Rights is dedicated to:
Knife Rights Foundation is dedicated to:
...appears to be in doubt.
The Swiss army, which is to order a fresh batch of 65,000 of the pocket knives with new specifications, has caused nationwide consternation by declaring that under World Trade Organisation rules, the tendering process must be opened to companies worldwide because of the high value of the contract.
China, which has been producing pirate copies of the knife for years, is thought to have the best chance of winning the contract, which is estimated at 1.7m Swiss francs (£695,000), followed by Taiwan and Bulgaria.
The issue has become one of the hottest political topics of the summer, with far-right politicians saying that national pride is at stake....
It is credited by everyone from balloonists and astronauts to surgeons and pilots with saving lives and is the official pocket knife for 16 armies around the world, including the US military.
It has also prompted many jokes, perceived as it is as the weapon of choice for the military of neutral Switzerland. The US comedian Robin Williams once quipped: "How can you trust an army that has a wine opener on its knife?"
I love my Swiss Army Knife, though thanks to regular travel and a measure of forgetfulness, I'm one of their better customers-- I've had to throw away at least two of them in the last two years, right before getting into airport security lines.
http://askpang.typepad.com/relevant_history/2007/08/the-future-of-t.html
Macgyver may not have worn his hats all the time, probably for vanity, but like Magnum, PI, Macgyver did have a favorite ball cap.
Macgyver's white hat is basically a 'trucker' type hat with plastic mesh backing, and snap closure. Your best best for an actual replica is to find a "C" Calgary Flames Logo patch and stick it on a plain white trucker hat. These are more modern
than Macgyver wore and are not quite replicas, but does he really, or anyone, look good in a hat like he's wearing? The hat looks pretty good in Trumbo's World:
Kiko Machine, Kiko Machine
Audio CD
Disk ID: 1391332
Disk length: 57m 7s (14 Tracks)
Original Release Date: 2005
Label: Unknown
Kiko Machine: McgyverLahat ng problema’y may magagawa sya
Walang imposible, lahat ay kaya
Hindi susuko sa mga loko
Wala pa ring tatalo kay McGyver
Ultimate problem solver[Refrain]
Suka toyo, kaya gawing bomba
Lumang tubo, kayang gawing bazooka
Lumang bumbilya nagagawang granada
Wala pa ring tatalo kay McGyver
Ultimate problem solver[Chorus]
Sarhan man sya ng pintuan
Pilit itong mabubuksan
Ibaon mo man sya sa lupa
Tingnan mo ulit, malamang wala na[repeat Refrain and Chorus]
[repeat Chorus]
Lahat ng problema’y may magagawa sya
Walang imposible, lahat ay kaya
Hindi susuko sa mga loko
Kahit magsama ka pa ng mga gago[repeat Refrain]
Wala pa ring tatalo kay McGyver
Ultimate problem solverAlso: There must have been a "Macgyver" Commercial, or rather a commercial using the Macgyver Theme for MANG TOMAS:
"Mang Tomas, All-Around Sarsa - They want us to believe that this popular brand of lechon sauce actually has the same versatility of ketchup and they took a MacGyver mom to endorse this, accompanied by the MacGyver theme in the TV spots. In the commercials, the MacGyver mom offers Mang Tomas as a quick solution to the members of her family, one of whom was looking for ketchup, another for something to eat with leftover rice, and yet another who was looking for some kind of sandwich spread.
According to folk legend, Mang Tomas was actually the one who discovered lechon (the national dish), when he found his prize pig burned to a crisp after a fire burned down his house. Furthermore, Mang Tomas was supposedly an ancestor to the lechon dealers in La Loma, being Mila, Ping Ping, etc. I first heard the legend from a maid when I was young, who poorly explained it to me (thanks to a language problem), leaving me to believe that Mang Tomas was actually the one who got burned to a crisp. It was a confusing situation I found myself in, noting that we kept using a sauce that had cannibalistic overtones. Moreover, why was Mang Tomas even smiling on the label? It just wasn't right for somebody who got roasted alive to be commemorated on a food label smiling and sporting a salakot, looking like a happy Katipunero."
http://www.callueng.com/bleargh/2005/09/bleargh-survey-hard-sell-serving.html
