"riverman" wrote in message ...

Fortunately,
I could then use the knife tip to press the pointy end through my joint and
remove it at the knuckle.

That certainly deserves sentence-of-the-month! I suppose in the context
it really was fortunate, but my idea of the word tends to imagine quite
different images than the above...

Jon.
PS: If someone's posting a story to top riverman's, warn me so I
can get some smelling salts on hand...