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    From Joy Beeson@21:1/5 to All on Wed Sep 21 23:15:02 2022
    https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2674:_Everyday_Carry

    I have number of "everyday" suites. There is no knife in my Sunday
    purse because I usually hang out in the church kitchen, but that is
    going to change next Sunday -- on my way home last Sunday, I wanted to
    cut a pepper off the vine, but not one of the tools in my pockets was
    suitable. I didn't want to damage the vine, so I had to hope that it
    would keep until next Sunday.

    I don't think there's a spare key-chain knife in my stash, so I'll
    have to swap back and forth with one of the other suites until I can
    buy one. Keychain knives can't be bought, actually; one has to luck
    into them.

    A comb is common to all the suites. The Sunday suite has half a
    dressing comb; my waiting-room suite has an unbroken dressing comb; my walking/driving suite has a pocket comb; my riding suite has a
    re-enactor's horn comb in the wallet.

    --
    Joy Beeson
    joy beeson at centurylink dot net
    http://wlweather.net/PAGEJOY/

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  • From Quinn C@21:1/5 to All on Sat Sep 24 11:20:10 2022
    * Joy Beeson:

    https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2674:_Everyday_Carry

    I have number of "everyday" suites. There is no knife in my Sunday
    purse because I usually hang out in the church kitchen, but that is
    going to change next Sunday -- on my way home last Sunday, I wanted to
    cut a pepper off the vine, but not one of the tools in my pockets was suitable. I didn't want to damage the vine, so I had to hope that it
    would keep until next Sunday.

    I don't think there's a spare key-chain knife in my stash, so I'll
    have to swap back and forth with one of the other suites until I can
    buy one. Keychain knives can't be bought, actually; one has to luck
    into them.

    A comb is common to all the suites. The Sunday suite has half a
    dressing comb; my waiting-room suite has an unbroken dressing comb; my walking/driving suite has a pocket comb; my riding suite has a
    re-enactor's horn comb in the wallet.

    I don't own a comb. It's probably been at least 10 years since I used
    one. This probably depends on your hair type, but I usually feel that my fingers do a better job at straightening the hair without making it look
    stern.

    I also don't currently have any kind of pocket knife, but I don't see
    that as a good thing. I just haven't missed it enough recently.

    --
    Legends of prediction are common throughout the whole Household of Man.
    Gods speak, spirits speak, computers speak. Oracular ambiguity or
    statistical probability provides loopholes, and discrepancies are
    expunged by Faith. -- Ursula LeGuin, The Left Hand of Darkness, ch. 5

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