Mine IS bigger than yours...

[t2andreo]

Seen today whilst browsing my morning reading, and offered in the holly jolly holiday spirit...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-5157835/There-one-foot-9-000-Swiss-Army-Knife-Amazon.html

Seriously, no pilgrim would want for anything...ever. Of course, they would need a little wagon or trolley to tote the darn thing...and an engineering degree to sort it all out.

This is one of those situations where knowing how to do something DOES NOT mean you should do it.

Then again, we all know there are people out there with more money than brains...who just want the newest shiny gadget...

Ho, Ho, Ho!

 

[cher99840]

That’s hilarious. The “reviews” at the link are well worth the read too.

 

[nycwalking]

Um! Hannibal Lecter could have used this.

 

[Rick of Rick and Peg]

I wonder how well that compass works next to seven pounds of steel.

I remember seeing Ron Popeil, founder of Ronco, mentioning that his company's product Pocket Fisherman wasn't meant to be used for fishing. It was meant to be given as a gift. Same thing here?

 

[Bradypus]

In Britain Sheffield was very famous as a centre of steel making and cutlery. For the 1851 Great Exhibition in London one of the companies decided to show off their skills. This was the result!
https://www.hpacde.org.uk/picturesheffield/jpgh_sheffield/s10107.jpg

 

[Waka]

Unless I'm missing the most important camino tool, I can't see the bottle opener. Looks like I'll have to suffer with the freebe from last time.

 

[Rick of Rick and Peg]

That's not a knife.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_ED-NbwjwA

 

[C3 to Camino]

Unless I'm missing the most important camino tool, I can't see the bottle opener. Looks like I'll have to suffer with the freebe from last time.

It is under the red part. I am well acquainted with it, as before we married people teased us about not forgetting the wine bottle opener. We were married at a camp, in winter, after a two-foot snowfall. We forgot the wine bottle opener. A few people pulled out their Swiss army knives, and we were good to go!

 

[MinaKamina]

This is great. Must-have does not begin to describe it. By the look of it, this monster even has the tool to assemble IKEA furniture, so you will never be at loss in an albergue with shaky beds. Then again, if you don't buy the thing, you'll have ample money for *** hotels, but if you receive this as a gift, you can pass it on by fixing beds, chairs, shoes and the like for your fellow pilgrims and etching their names in beer glasses so as to avoid confusion.

 

[C3 to Camino]

Awww... just realized. They probably wouldn't let me bring this in my carry-on, and I likely couldn't find it in Galicia. I guess I'll just have to make do

 

[Sailor]

To the gentleman losing his knife at Casa del Cubo in Burgos [October 2017], next time bring one of these, you will immediately notice this yuge thing missing from your pocket. Good luck, Feliz Navidad, y que la luz de Dios alumbre su camino.

 

[Stivandrer]

Unless I'm missing the most important camino tool, I can't see the bottle opener. Looks like I'll have to suffer with the freebe from last time.

Find a Dane, he, or she will open beer bottles with everything in sight: pegs spades, tools..... just last week I opened beers w/ a rolled up newspaper. It´s a dawdle !!

 

[SabsP]

Find a Dane, he, or she will open beer bottles with everything in sight: pegs spades, tools..... just last week I opened beers w/ a rolled up newspaper. It´s a dawdle !!

 

[t2andreo]

Well, I am glad everyone took this submission in the spirit it was intended...

 

[Canuck]

What? No immersion heater??

 

[Old Hillwalker]

Chuck Norris doesn't need one.

 

[MichelleElynHogan]

Now, I need to take my hiking pants to the tailor and get a new pocket sewn on, maybe 1 fot 3 inches deep. I do not want it falling out. LOLOLOL. Next, are any of the blades over 6 cm? If not, I can take it on the plane, YAY!!!

 

[Jeff Crawley]

Find a Dane, he, or she will open beer bottles with everything in sight: pegs spades, tools..... just last week I opened beers w/ a rolled up newspaper. It´s a dawdle !!

Doddle . . . English word meaning "it's very easy"
Dawdle . . . English word meaning "move slowly and idly in a particular direction" (in other words me, on a Camino!)

 

[Jeff Crawley]

Seen today whilst browsing my morning reading, and offered in the holly jolly holiday spirit...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-5157835/There-one-foot-9-000-Swiss-Army-Knife-Amazon.html

Seriously, no pilgrim would want for anything...ever. Of course, they would need a little wagon or trolley to tote the darn thing...and an engineering degree to sort it all out.

This is one of those situations where knowing how to do something DOES NOT mean you should do it.

Then again, we all know there are people out there with more money than brains...who just want the newest shiny gadget...

Ho, Ho, Ho!

If I hadn't seen it before I wouldn't have believed it - Daily Mail, home of UK Fake News.

 

[t2andreo]

The DM may produce, shall I say, 'entertaining' news on occasion...but it is still news if it is information I did not previously have. And the Wenger über Swiss Army Knife is a fact. As shown above, it has been done by other knife makers at other times.

I take my "news" where I find it. Some of my EU friends, especially those who have lived in the UK frequently ridiculed me when I share a story from the DM with them. I suspect they take the DM far too seriously...

News, to me, is simply information I did not have previously. Of course, more serious information that comes as "news to me" must still be vetted through alternative means and sources to remove the possibility of "fake news." Sorely, things have come to that unfortunate point. Rarely can news be accepted as fact, right off.

NB: Each day, I do peruse the online versions of the Times of London, New York Times, The Post (Toronto) Los Angeles Times, and a variety of lesser known online newspapers from the US, UK, Canada, and to the extent they are available in English, across the EU.

One cannot be too careful about being 'snookered' these days. So, any reader necessarily must exercise due diligence when considering which stories to believe and to share with others.

On this side of the pond, we have a daily game of "whack a mole" going with the media, both print and on television. Each media outlet seems to be rushing to outdo themselves with sensational "exclusives," most of which end up being partially or wholly bogus.

The outlets with greater integrity accept responsibility and print or issue retractions. However, more recently, too many outlets are 'doubling down' and insisting that their bogus stories are fact... Walter Cronkite is likely spinning in his grave...

So, as regards to obtaining "news" from any source, it has become a paradigm of "caveat emptor."

 

[Stivandrer]

true, I was quoting Billy C, it is surely doddle !