On Wed, 9 Feb 2005 10:24:12 -0800 (PST), Jerry Friedman <jerry_friedman at yahoo.com> wrote: >> Heh. I debated on carrying a knife at the last wedding I went to. As I >> was >> presiding over it, I decided to leave it with my street cloths. > I think Miss Manners would have approved, at least if you're talking > about wearing the knife openly (unlike the wedding David mentioned), > though it may depend on the religion or lack thereof and on the > social circles. It's always nice to have a knife when it's time to open presents. A knife, or even better, scissors can be useful when people are in an event with new fancy clothes that might have threads hanging. Pocket knives make terrible weapons. There's no way one can hijack an airplane with one. The paranoia that makes them proscribed from airplanes is misdirected. -- Using M2, Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/m2/