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The title on HN at this time is "Glasgow: Scots Army Knife for Electronics".

Is this suppose to be Swiss Army Knife? Or is there some kind of thing where they wanted to call it Glasgow and so then had to invent a new corruption on the Swiss army knife analogy to make it Scottish?

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I'd imagine it's a riff on Swiss Army Knife? It seems deliberate given 'Glasgow'.

I'm picturing the tiny knife they keep in their socks when they're wearing their kilts.

That’s the Sgian-dubh. If you wondered what it was called

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sgian-dubh

Traditionally used for handling the heaters in Scottish army ration packs:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Ry4QBQejFU

Wenger and Victorinox have a sweet racket on army knives. The one the army buys for each recruit doesn't have a corkscrew, so they know they'll always sell a second one (bought with private funds) which does.

The corkscrew is important because, being the army, Kirsch is of course streng verboten: https://www.srf.ch/play/tv/archivperlen/video/fondue-in-der-...

Edit: Caucasians had been doing "ballet for little boys" years before John Woo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-df9ujMa54

In the days before silverware was part of a table place setting, "alternation" of males and females at a meal wasn't just polite, but ensured no one was too far away from a knife.

It is an odd choice - there hasn't been anything like a 'Scots Army' for a very long time.

As taneq says, it's presumably a joke on the Glasgow theme.

Scottish regiment knife doesn't have the same ring to it.

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