On 10/17/2014 3:27 AM, paul womack wrote:
> RH Hutchins wrote:
>  > Which leads to an assumption that virtually everyone here carries a 
> pocket knife of some sort.
>
> https://www.gov.uk/find-out-if-i-can-buy-or-
carry-a-knife">https://www.gov.uk/find-out-if-i-can-buy-or-carry-a-knife
>
>  BugBear
>
>
Ouch!  I've been in England on several occasions in decades past and 
always had a pocket knife of some sort with me.  In those days, though, 
boarding an airplane didn't require revealing yourself and a thousand 
years of your ancestry. I guess I was lucky not to have been imprisoned.

I flew regularly for more than 30 years but have not done so in about 
the last 15.  In those old days, a penknife in the loose items bin and a 
wave through the scanner never raised an eyebrow. I would feel naked 
without a small knife in my pocket . . .  not because it's useful for 
self-defense (or is that 'defence,' BugBear?) but because one never 
knows when it will be useful.

How can a Boy Scout "Be Prepared" without a proper knife?  Lord 
Baden-Powell must be turning cartwheels
in his crypt.
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