{"id":31825,"date":"2024-01-28T12:48:15","date_gmt":"2024-01-28T18:48:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=31825"},"modified":"2024-01-28T12:48:15","modified_gmt":"2024-01-28T18:48:15","slug":"spoken-like-a-man-with-no-metal-on-his-wall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/28\/spoken-like-a-man-with-no-metal-on-his-wall\/","title":{"rendered":"Spoken Like A Man With No Metal On His Wall"},"content":{"rendered":"

HOME DEPOT IS SELLING A \u2018BRAVEHEART\u2019 SWORD AND HERE ARE SOME FOOLPROOF WAYS TO SELL THE IDEA OF BUYING ONE TO YOUR SIGNIFICANT OTHER<\/a>:<\/p>\n

It\u2019s been a while since I\u2019ve popped into a Home Depot, but now that I know they\u2019re peddling a reasonably priced sword, I might need to check it out.<\/p>\n

People have been buzzing about the surprising listing that was found on the company\u2019s website.<\/p>\n

What if we fought using the Home Depot sword pic.twitter.com\/Slcg5F40Tb<\/p>\n

\u2014 Sena Bonbon \ufe0f ~comms open~ (@Bonbon_Sena) January 23, 2024<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Damn, look at that. What makes it even better is that it\u2019s priced at around $50. I defy you to find a William Wallace Medieval Sword \u2014 or any other bladed weapon for that matter \u2014 with a sheath for that price.<\/p>\n

With inflation still pretty high, you can\u2019t.<\/p>\n

Still, you might need to convince your wife\/girlfriend\/significant other that you need this at a hardware store Claymore.<\/p>\n

I know you\u2019re busy so allow me to come up with some arguments for you.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

As you might know, gentle reader, I have mentioned<\/a> that I have a halberd and several swords on my wall, several practice weapons atop the books on my bookshelves, and a Swiss bayonet that I really must put on the wall before a cat knocks it off of the bookshelves perhaps onto my head instead of next to where I am standing, trying to pick out a book, next time (but no rapier or katana<\/a> even though I have just the spot for one.<\/p>\n

You know, (perhaps I’ve already told this story, but here it is again) Relics had a claymore in one of the booths a while back, and I thought about it. Then I looked at the price tag, and it was $500. So I mulled it over, and when I had a Christmas bonus or something, I took a closer look at it…. And it was truly a clay<\/em>more, a plaster or resin replica of a claymore and not even metal at all. So way, way overpriced. Which is just as well, as I don’t have room for it on my office wall. But in the den, the vertical surface above the fireplace mantel is bare….<\/p>\n

So I don’t have to justify buying a new blade to my beautiful wife as it falls into ther category of things I accumulate. I wouldn’t have to justify spending $50 on a sword–and keep in mind the thing at Home Depot is a replica, with as much relationship to a real sword as the decorative flintlock replicas I have on my wall are to real pistols.<\/p>\n

I would have to justify spending $500 on a sword, though. And perhaps get a second job to cover it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

HOME DEPOT IS SELLING A \u2018BRAVEHEART\u2019 SWORD AND HERE ARE SOME FOOLPROOF WAYS TO SELL THE IDEA OF BUYING ONE TO YOUR SIGNIFICANT OTHER: It\u2019s been a while since I\u2019ve popped into a Home Depot, but now that I know they\u2019re peddling a reasonably priced sword, I might need to check it out. People have […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-advertisements","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31825"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31825\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31828,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31825\/revisions\/31828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}