At 07:53 02/09/2005, Howard Brazee wrote: >Jeff Gibbons 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 was given a knife for being Best Man at a wedding. I was taught that a gift of a knife could cut a friendship; thus, in my family, such a gift was always paid for with a token sum (a dime or a postage stamp or something). Has anyone else ever run across that? -- Regards, Pete pgranzeau at cox.net