"Peter H. Granzeau" <pgranzeau at cox.net> wrote: >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? I think that's an old superstition. I saw on TV that the king of Sweden got gifted a knife last year, whereupon his aide quickly searched his pockets for a coin to pay for it. Apparently the giver was happy about that, as the coin even had a portrait of the king... /Mrtn _________________________________________________________________ Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! Download today it's FREE! http://messenger.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200471ave/direct/01/