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Posted: 3/14/2006 3:22:47 PM EDT

Do you carry the things that separate you from an APE...(Rhetorical Question)

The ability to create fire (Lighter/matches)(even if you don't smoke)
Some sort of tool or knife(everyday)

Posted: 3/14/2006 3:24:23 PM EDT

[#1]

No fire tools (except a 10mm pistol, I guess.)

I do carry a knife everyday, and the knowledge to utilize improvised tools.

edited 'cause "knofe" don't mean nottin.

Posted: 3/14/2006 3:42:07 PM EDT

[#2]

I'm either an ape that looks like a man, or a man that looks like an ape. It depends on who you ask. I know what my ex wife would say.

I don't normally carry around the means to make fire when not camping, hunting or just out in the woods or desert. I do carry a knife/multitool, gun, light, Treo phone, etc, etc. So despite what my ex wife thinks, I'm firmly in the "man" catagory.

Posted: 3/14/2006 3:45:04 PM EDT

[#3]

I am a tool

Posted: 3/14/2006 3:46:50 PM EDT

[#4]

Quoted:
I am a tool

Hammerhead.

Posted: 3/14/2006 3:51:13 PM EDT

[#5]

I carry a brain that allows me to obtain those things as necessary

Posted: 3/14/2006 4:22:29 PM EDT

[#6]

I'm a trunk monkey.

Posted: 3/14/2006 4:23:50 PM EDT

[#7]

Oook oook !

Posted: 3/14/2006 4:25:22 PM EDT

[#8]

Quoted:
I carry a brain that allows me to obtain those things as necessary

+1

It's our brain that separates us from the apes - not the tools we have at hand.

Posted: 3/14/2006 4:26:05 PM EDT

[#9]

I usually just carry a knife.

I guess in a serious pinch, and if I was desparate, fire could be had by pulling out my G19 in front of one of the liberals at Starbucks then waiting for their head to explode.

Posted: 3/14/2006 4:27:38 PM EDT

[#10]

I always carry a zippo and my trusty Cold Steel Recon 1 half-serrated tanto. I also carry a pack of cigarettes just in case I need to light up some laser trip wires(for those Metal Gear fans).

Posted: 3/14/2006 9:57:49 PM EDT

[#11]

I use a twig to fish ants out of an anthill. What does that make me?

Posted: 3/14/2006 10:00:27 PM EDT

[#12]

I am a man, not a ~~liberal~~ Ape

Posted: 3/14/2006 10:03:24 PM EDT

[#13]

I am a MAN, not an ape. Until I step onto a dance floor, that is.

Posted: 3/14/2006 10:10:32 PM EDT

[#14]

Nobody's posted it yet so I guess I will.

"Take your stinking paws off me, you damned dirty ape!"

Posted: 3/14/2006 10:19:12 PM EDT

[#15]

Just so we're clear, a knife can be used to create a fire.

So yes, I do.

Posted: 3/14/2006 10:20:33 PM EDT

[#16]

I am an ape.

Posted: 3/14/2006 10:32:30 PM EDT

[#17]

I AM IRONMAN

Posted: 3/14/2006 10:34:39 PM EDT

[#18]

I am an Ape pretending to be a man.

It's the truth.

Posted: 3/15/2006 12:27:06 AM EDT

[#19]

No knife, no fire, I can use the microwave though.

Posted: 3/15/2006 12:53:13 AM EDT

[#20]

Knife, My X-ACTO X3274 SurGrip Utility Knife goes everywhere I do.

Posted: 3/15/2006 1:08:16 AM EDT

[#21]

I'm having an identity crisis. I carry a lit banana.

Posted: 3/15/2006 2:35:33 AM EDT

[#22]

I am not a short tailed monkey!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
But I carry a tool.

Posted: 3/15/2006 3:03:20 AM EDT

[#23]

I'm a man that smells like an ape.

Posted: 3/15/2006 3:08:09 AM EDT

[#24]

I just lit my keyboard on fire and put it out with a hammer while singing "I am the ape-man, Koo-Koo-Ka-Choo"......

Posted: 3/15/2006 3:53:28 AM EDT

[#25]

Actually, what separates us from the apes is the Ability to Make the tools, not just to carry them.

I can make fire by flint on steel (tried two sticks once--too much of a pain in the ass), and find/form steel to work.

I could carry a nice benchmade folder, but I can also take a scrap of steel and shape it against a rough surface to get a useable blade. I also know the basics of how to make a flint (or glass) blade--I know that it is a pain in the ass to do, but if my life depended on it, you can bet I would put the time in.

AFARR

Posted: 3/15/2006 8:38:55 PM EDT

[#26]

Quoted:
Quoted:
I carry a brain that allows me to obtain those things as necessary

+1

It's our brain that separates us from the apes - not the tools we have at hand.

Quoted:
Actually, what separates us from the apes is the Ability to Make the tools, not just to carry them.

I can make fire by flint on steel (tried two sticks once--too much of a pain in the ass), and find/form steel to work.

I could carry a nice benchmade folder, but I can also take a scrap of steel and shape it against a rough surface to get a useable blade. I also know the basics of how to make a flint (or glass) blade--I know that it is a pain in the ass to do, but if my life depended on it, you can bet I would put the time in.

AFARR

I was talking about using the tools

read the first post it does say rhetorical question

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