I think a couple of them are from video games...

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Unable to save the day: File is read-only.

Well, given that we're talking about the Air Force...

(feel free to suggest your own variation)

Heh, it's like someone decided to actually forge the art from a multitude of RPG sourcebooks. Though I suppose a few of them could qualify as 'merely impractical' rather than 'more dangerous the the wielder than their opponent'.

	-={(Astynax)}=- "Kobrakatana!"

It might've been a thing, but considering how far out the "waist" is, you'd need arms like an orangutan. Not to mention it's a significant weak-spot. At least you get a back-up knife for when the blade snaps.
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Stoke Mandeville, Esq & The Victorian Ballsmiths
"Nobody Want Verdigris-Covered Balls!"

My hat's off to Google Translate for such an excellent job of getting this guy's disgust across in English:

> "In the same spirit, we have a bunch of stainless steel kitchen knives
> from Spanish Marto, suitable for barbarian wannabes. It is difficult to
> decide which is the ugliest, so the whole bundle must be included. I
> suspect that the designer overdosed on shitty heavy metal and worse
> barbarian films in the 80's…

I can only imagine how snarky it is in the original Swedish...

-- Bob
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My race is pacifist and does not believe in war. We kill only out of personal spite.

"As your comment about the so-called Christmas katana sword, it is clear that you can associate gadgets with anything. For example, I have heard comments that Del Tin looks like overgrown cutlery. "

Clearly from people who think that Christmas catanas are the most beautiful thing they have seen ;-)

"As I said, taste is divided."

Hellyeah. In good and bad taste ;-)

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Stoke Mandeville, Esq & The Victorian Ballsmiths
"Nobody Want Verdigris-Covered Balls!"

"They did most of the good work with this. I'd like you to see what it does to a side of meat, because in hand-to-hand combat, that's all a man is."
- James Burke, Connections: A Personal View of Change episode 03: "Distant Voices" (1979)

--G.
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Ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam.

Slightly unsettling fact: up until about 1965, the coppers around here still carried sabers rather than truncheons/nightsticks, and they really only stopped that because they were a pain to get in and out of patrol cars with.
There's a deterrent for you.

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Stoke Mandeville, Esq & The Victorian Ballsmiths
"Nobody Want Verdigris-Covered Balls!"