Tony, you're a very naughty man. And probably great fun at parties.

I like plain dirks myself -- plain unto severe; all business, no excrescences. Even if its sheath is a pretty fair place to carry about a by-knife and a fork to eat with... did the kilties just drink their soup from the bowl's edge, come to that, or were soup spoons the responsibility of the host? To say nothing of their brose, Atholl or plain.