From: "E.J. Totty", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>According to the Concise Oxford Dictionary a penknife is "A small folding
>knife, especially for carrying in the pocket."
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>And it would not be unreasonable for the man in the street to turn to
>dictionary for information to help him understand the meaning of things -
>would it?
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>Pete
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>I don't make this crap up, I just report it. The Isle of Man
>actually has a statute differentiating lock knives and penknives.
>
>Steve.
Steve, & Pete,
So, one wonders how long it will be before a knife must
have a certain amount of some part of metal. I say that in the
consideration that materials tech will surely produce a substance
just as hard, and as tough as steel, yet have no metallic signature.
Then what?
I wonder just what it was the induced this particular set
of statutes, such that a knife may not have a locking blade. Is not a
blade a blade? Who the blazes cares whether it locks in place?
What is the point in that? Hell, why not dictate that all
blades must be pink?
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This coming from a guy who lives in a country that banned plastic
guns and requires toy guns to have red plugs in the barrel.
Steve.
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