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Historical Artifacts

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Yes, they are basically weaponized lawn darts

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

https://www.scoutshop.org/cub-scout-pocket-knife-2-blade-615780.html

Cob Scout knives are still a thing. Back when lawn darts came out getting a young boy his first knife was a common rite of passage. Mumblety-peg was a common game of throwing the knife into the dirt.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

2 inches is all you need. I remember those would close so easily on my fingers.

that's the day I became a fixed blade man.

[–] CarbonatedPastaSauce 3 points 1 month ago

Because you didn't have enough fingers left to open and close the other ones?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Stolen from Red Foxx.

The police think [all ghetto residents] carry knives. [Expletive deleted] my uncle carried an ice pick for years.

[–] shalafi 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

LOL, my dad carried a crescent wrench. He buried my Bowie knife in a tree so hard I could swing on it. You wouldn't want to be at the end of that man's flying wrench.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

I had to read that three times. Your father used a crescent wrench for business and social occasions. He had the arm strength to stab a tree and embed the knife. He was a formidable opponent.

[–] TastehWaffleZ 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Couldn't close it because they lack thumbs?