See?
socialism does make the people stupider
[Inventor] John Cornock...42, from Swindon, said: “It can never be a totally safe knife, but the idea is you can’t inflict a fatal wound. Nobody could just grab one out of the kitchen drawer and kill someone.”
Mr Cornock has clearly never read a Jack Reacher book.
Soon enough the only knives allowed in Formerly Great Britain will be butter knives.
As more than one person pointed out, there is a sharp edge somewhere on those knives, and sharp edges could well do someone an injury. Heads have been sawn off with knife parts other than the point.
PS: I just discovered Jack Reacher, just two novels ago. Lee Child is ..... British. (He had the good fortune to be fired from the BBC.)
There’s a roughly similar character in a US series - the protagonist is called “the cleaner” (because he cleans up other people’s messes). Does that ring a bell?
Posted by ZZMike on 06/18/09 at 05:30 PMDoes The Cleaner by Brett Battles sound like the one? I just ran it by amazon and that’s what they came up with. Lemme know—I’m almost out of Reacher books.
I really enjoyed the Reacher series—for the most part. It does show that Child is a Brit. There are certain presuppositions that are just not American in his character. [And what’s the whole thing with Jack and his watch?!? First he looks at it obsessively—then he never needs/wears a watch. Bad continuity editing, that.]
Posted by Claire on 06/19/09 at 08:25 PMThe Battles series isn’t the one I remember. Drat. Now I’ll have to go through the bookstore shelves. I tried websearching for it - no luck.
I just finished One Shot. I remember reading, years ago, about the Russian Army, maybe it was Stalingrad, that they’d give every other man a rifle. When the guy with the rifle got killed, the guy behind him picked it up and started shooting.
War was rough in those days.
Posted by ZZMike on 06/23/09 at 07:54 AM
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