“Some people make the distinction that a pickaxe has a head with a pointed end and a flat end, and a pick has both ends pointed, or only one end; but most people use the words to mean the same thing.” from Wikipedia article “pickaxe.”
Aug 10 2012
What is a Pickaxe?
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physioprof
August 10, 2012 at 8:45 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Dude, I love your style!
Trebuchet
August 10, 2012 at 10:18 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
It’s a city “400 miles north of everywhere” of you read Lilian Jackson Braun’s “Cat Who” books!
Trebuchet
August 10, 2012 at 10:19 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Oh, for an edit function. That’s “if you read”, of course.
Achrachno
August 11, 2012 at 5:08 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Yes, but is it a godly tool?
F
August 11, 2012 at 11:47 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
I would go with the definition which actually describes the tool. Call me nuts.
Whatever happened to the mattock? Outlive its fifteen minutes of fame? We media consumers have such short attention spans.
Charles Sullivan
August 13, 2012 at 3:50 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
And don’t forget the mattock, as F says:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mattock