Encore of
@Rob's Post #18 'Ode to a Swiss Champ'
Yep, ever since I was a kid I've always had a pocket knife in my pocket (where else?). The one I've got at present is a near top of the range one, the 'Champ' I think it's called. It was a 60th birthday present. Sadly, nowadays in the UK, I'd probably get done for carrying an offensive weapon. I wrote this little 'Ode to a Swiss Champ' a couple of years ago on another site ...
I have a knife I carry 'round
It cost me nearly fifty pound
It's a genuine Swiss Army Knife
The best I've had in all my life
A pocket knife's a man's best friend
It won't desert you in the end
It's got two blades, one large one small
A Phillips screwdriver, and that's not all
A pair of scissors and of pliers
with a thing for cutting wires
I thing for which you all must wish
for getting hooks out of a fish
A magnifying glass and a saw
a thing, I don't know what it's for
A needle for mending rips in sails
and a device for extracting nails
A tiny screwdriver for fixing specs
Whatever will they think of next
A little biro in the side
and tweezers, in there, also hide
Then a little plastic tooth pick
when, in your teeth food does stick
The other side's got a flat head screwdriver
and a thing who's use I don't know eiver
On the back there is a small hook
It's use I looked up in the book
Used for lifting parcels with strings
and other sorts of heavy things
And last of all but not the least
Inside of this fearsome beast
are five different ways of getting
drink from containers and your whistle wetting
