[TheForge] Knife gifts

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Tradition says that if you give a knife, it "cuts the friendship".  Some 
members of my family enforced that rule when giving me a blade.  We got along 
until they died.  Others didn't...and today we're on the outs.  Coincidence?

Probably.

Jerry V

<< However, tradition says that you shouldn't give knives as gifts (bad luck
 thingy), so one always includes a coin, with which the recipient 'buys' the
 knife(was a penny, but I'm not sure now, what with inflation and all...).
 Anyone else heard of this?
  >>