Talk:Icepick

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I tried to fix the article from its previous BJAODN-worthy state. Really, I did. But I just couldn't find enough interesting information about ice picks to flesh it out. CaptainSpam 01:31, 28 Feb 2005 (UTC)

1 Fiction
2 Function
3 Trotsky
4 RE: Trotsky's murder
5 Icepick lobotomies
6 Jason's first kill

[edit] Fiction

Do we really need to list every movie, video game, and book that mentions an ice pick as a weapon or tool? Unless there is something special about the appearance of the ice pick in the game/movie/book. Endless with little or no value to the article. --75.20.202.214 07:04, 14 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Function

Why would people want to pick at ice? --Menchi 07:35, 18 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Well, they came in handy in the days before frost-free refrigerators. People would use them to dislodge the ice in the freezer. 67.162.166.143 06:40, 1 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Trotsky

I removed the references to Trotsky's assassination, as the Leon Trotsky, ice axe and Ramon Mercader pages all agree he was killed with an ice axe, not pick. XbenX 19:29, 8 July 2005 (UTC)

[edit] RE: Trotsky's murder

Sorry, failed to read this before I wrote that in again. D'oh. Anyway, the ice-axe does seem a little more realistic, given Trotsky's background.

I added a sentence in stating explicitly that it was an ice axe instead, since this is obviously a common misconception. --David Edgar 10:52, 9 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Icepick lobotomies

It's my understanding that Walter Freeman did not actually hammer in common icepicks with a rubber mallet. His "trans-orbital lobotomies" were done with a similar surgical instrument. It was crude, imprecise and done without anesthesia, but it was not a real "icepick." Could someone possibly confirm and amend the article, hopefully with a reference? cprompt 23:39, 5 May 2006 (UTC)