[M ELEY]

I'm with you, Mike, on the machete vote. I've seen several vicious wounds inflicted with a machete and a near-decapitation with one(drug-related...go figure). In that book about Spanish coloniakl weapons whose name escapes me right now, machetes are spoken of as both a tool and a weapon, descending from the respected 'espada anchas' of the 19th century and before.