Talk:Club (weapon)

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Contents 1 Knobkierie 2 Police use of batons 3 Mêlée 4 Taiaha, Tewhatewha, Patu 5 "Deadly" use 6 Fictional blackjacks 7 Video Games

[edit] Knobkierie

There are quite a few different versions of the word "Knobkierie" going around. There's "knobkerry", "knobkerie", "knobkerrie", "knopkierie", "knobkierie"... Only two of these make any sense to me: "knopkierie", which is the Afrikaans spelling and "knobkierie", which is, well, close enough. A "kerrie" is something completely different :-) --Janto 01:30, 4 December 2005 (UTC)

Both the terms hottentot and bushmen are distinctly un-PC, unacceptable and considered offensive to many south africans, I suggest replacing it with the more widely accepted khoisan.

[edit] Police use of batons

"If an impact weapon has to be used to deliver lethal force, parts of the body targeted can include the wrists, crotch, skull, and neck." Deadly blunt wrist and crotch injuries? With a JCB maybe.

[edit] Mêlée

Is it really necessary to spell this word the french way instead of the english "melee"? that is the language this page is supposed to be in. --24.124.75.12 00:04, 13 July 2006 (UTC)tsontag

Leave it as Mêlée, that is the original spellng of the word after all.~Anon

• If we were to spell all words the 'original way', that would be the end of English, and nearly every other language. The original French was meslee, which comes from Latin, etc. Fastifex 17:03, 24 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Taiaha, Tewhatewha, Patu

I'm a newbie so I'd like to leave this to someone else -- I suggest including Maori weapons and linking to Taiaha, Tewhatewha, Patu among others. There appears to be a rich variety of Maori weapons. --djdutch 14 September 2006.

[edit] "Deadly" use

I am a little bit astonished at

"If an impact weapon has to be used to deliver lethal force, parts of the body targeted can include the wrists, crotch, skull and neck."

What is possibly deadly in getting one's wrists smashed ? Unpleasant most certainly, incapaciting very probably, but deadly ? Rama 09:25, 5 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Fictional blackjacks

I've removed this fannish-looking stuff from the section on blackjacks. It's quite a jumble, in any case.

The blackjack was featured in the novel Tangerine, by Edward Bloor. In the novel, Arthur Bauer attacks Luis Cruz with the weapon, also by Nick Nolte's character in "Mulholland Falls". They are an armament of Butler, Artemis's bodyguard in the poplar novel Artemis Fowl.It also appears in the Thief series of video games as a non-lethal weapon and in the MMORPG Runescape as a nonlethal weapon for rendering a victim unconsious.

—Eric S. Smith 20:22, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Video Games

The video game reference under blackjack really doesn't belong. There is already a wiki for thief.

Nj78 22:05, 29 November 2006 (UTC)