Thought for Today

[Shirley]

My pocket knife has a blade & pair of scissors. what would you call my pocket knife?

[T1 Terry]

My pocket knife has a blade & pair of scissors. what would you call my pocket knife?

A folding utility knife? An anorexic Swiss Army Knife?

T1 Terry

[T1 Terry]

If you have in your hand a gizmo with holes for fingers in one end and two intersecting blades on the other, it's called a "Pair of Scissors"

Does that mean my pocket knife, with only one blade is called "A Scissor"

Like a pair of pants, you get two legs but only one garment, a pair of scissors actually has two handles and two blades, our chook shears at home come apart in the middle for cleaning, so would each half be a scissor or half a pair of scissors?

T1 Terry

[Shirley]

No Terry, it isn’t a Swiss Army knife, belonged to my Dad, only 50mm long.

Really neat little pocket knife, all the 5 g’son from the 25 year old to the eight year old have put their hand up for it.

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[Shirley]

Just the blade & scissors.

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[supersparky]

Shirley, If I'm memory is even halfway correct, when I was a kid, maybe 60 years ago, we used to call them a scout knife.
But that may be because you could only buy them at the scout shop. Don't reckon that 'scout shops' exist anymore either. Don't recall utility 'anything' being a word until Batman turned up in the 60's. Kapoow.

[Shirley]

David don’t think it is big enough to be a scouts knife, only 50mm long, I was a girl guide & my guide pen knife was at least twice as big.
The scouting movement started in Australia in 1908, Dad was born in 1912, he never belonged to the scouts, I always remember him having the little pen knife, never asked him how he come by it.

[T1 Terry]

No Terry, it isn’t a Swiss Army knife, belonged to my Dad, only 50mm long.

Really neat little pocket knife, all the 5 g’son from the 25 year old to the eight year old have put their hand up for it.
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I did say it was an anorexic one I remember my grandad had one very similar with bone as the body sides, yet another family heirloom that has been lost without a trace unfortunately .... maybe one of the nephews scored it. It had an awl as well and it had a hook cut in it near the tip that could be used as a sewing needle to pull a thread back through after making the hole with the awl ..... I remember him mentioning something about being something they either made or were issue with in the war .... but he didn't say which one, he was in both the first and second and deployed all over the place, but he would never talk about it .......

T1 Terry

[T1 Terry]

Now here's an idea for those up on the modern speak

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[T1 Terry]

The hard truth any kombi owner knows too well

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