User blog comment:Raidra/My Paper Weapons, Part One/@comment-25226524-20160415184707/@comment-4849011-20160416022659

Thank you very much, and please do! :-D I started to Google it, but the descriptions I read sounded questionable, so I just decided to imagine a picture of a hairy guy on a bed with guns and video games. I imagined him being fat. I hope that's okay.

Incidentally, the nicker traditionally does have a deer horn handle. Yeah, some of these sound different from what you expect. When you find out a butterfly knife is a balisong, you think, "Oh, a butterfly sword must be a balisword," and then no, it's something completely different. At least the swordstaff is straight with people! If things weren't confusing enough, the imperial gallon used in Canada (and presumably other places) has five quarts instead of four (which I think should mean it forfeits the right to say it has "quarts"). I heard that back in the 1970s they did try to have the metric system. They talked about that on I Love the 70s, with Donal Logue especially confused about the idea of measuring people's weight in stones. It's interesting translating (for lack of a better word) the measurements from metric to imperial and vice-versa. The description I read for the kylie said it was 130cm. When I found that was 50.7 inches I thought, "Well, that... that's over four feet long!" I had no idea how long these throwing sticks were! Between that and the incident with the kangaroo tails, I've never messing with the Aborigines. In case you don't know what I'm talking about, here you go- https://sites.google.com/site/ntpmhsociety/home/citation-magazine/articles/frozen-kangaroo-tail-attack.