O.K. peoples, the thread regarding native skills, or whatever people think it should be called was sparking more flames than a box of strike anywhere matches at a gasoline refinery. I locked it. So, heres a quizz for us all. A. You are standing bereft of all tools in nothing but your clothing in a bamboo forest. What do you make a knife out of and a fire, and how? B. You are now standing at midday, midsummer in the Canyonlands of South Utah. where do you find water? What non native material of organic origin do you use for a knife and, in the possible absence of vegetative fuel, something to burn? C. Your in a park in a major urban center. Suddenly you are surrounded by several religous cult members, the local ethnic street gang, and a civil war re enactment group mad because your disabled ( the streetgang stole the tires) Yugo is blocking their motorhome HQ. Again, you are without tools and have only the clothing on your back.