All it takes to be a man In Alaska

[reuben_j_cogburn]

A man bun... skinny jeans.... and a really big bowie knife... (the knife really doesn't help offset the other).
At least from what I have been seeing...
I kinda miss the dreadlocks, and tie-dye that was so pervasive when I first moved up here....

 

[eveled]

Dreadlocks I never understood. Just seems so dirty and nasty. Tie-dyes are fun. Skinny jeans? Nope not for me. Big Bowie knives seem like green horn thing. A 5 inch blade is about perfect for most things.

I almost went to Alaska when I was a teenager. I figure I probably wouldn’t have made it far. Then I found out about the guy from Dorchester who ended up in Tanana. Maybe I’d of made out ok?

 

[Ride1949]

I hear it's causing a rise in crime.

 

[Bear Paw Jack]

Man buns, dreadlocks, apparently I haven't missed much since I've been gone. I heard they are going to but a bounty on those folks. Skinny jeans, if you catch me in those I would be on the way out with some horrible disease. Probably couldn't get my arm in them. I'd heard things were going down hill since Mark Begich was mayor. Dems are like a disease up there. They spread like a bad cold.

The Bowie knife, now that's something I can relate too.

 

[Ka6otm]

I was raised in Alaska and was there when it became a State. My Dad was in the committee to stop statehood, said it would ruin Alaska to become a State and he was right.

But it was great up until then.

 

[BearBiologist]

A man bun... skinny jeans.... and a really big bowie knife... (the knife really doesn't help offset the other).
At least from what I have been seeing...
I kinda miss the dreadlocks, and tie-dye that was so pervasive when I first moved up here....

"Bigger the knife, the smaller the boy"==something a Scoutmaster told me when I was a Cub Scout.

 

[JCK]

I had an “old school” volunteer hunter-Ed instructor when I was a young conservation officer. He claimed to have been the last commissioned Army officer to qualify with a M1911,,,,, from horse back!!! Circa 1940.

He always said:
You can always tell how green the green horn is;
By the length of his s w o r d...
(pronounced SA-WARD); meaning the size of the Bowie knife...

 

[daveag.]

Dreadlocks I never understood. Just seems so dirty and nasty. Tie-dyes are fun. Skinny jeans? Nope not for me. Big Bowie knives seem like green horn thing. A 5 inch blade is about perfect for most things.

I almost went to Alaska when I was a teenager. I figure I probably wouldn’t have made it far. Then I found out about the guy from Dorchester who ended up in Tanana. Maybe I’d of made out ok?

I worked with a man with dreads. He smelled. Never washed his hair. I offered to pay for flat top.