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# actually...
its a tonfa, or as the U.S. police call them, a nightstick. a truncheon is a single lenght of wood, a bit like a rounders bat

/pedant
(, Mon 15 Sep 2003, 18:13, archived)
# What,
like the one in my pants?
(, Mon 15 Sep 2003, 18:15, archived)
# You know your pig sticks
yep, you do, you do.

But in L.A. they're called (and I cringe to say this) "spade clubs"*

*See Rodney King and the riots. Biggest gang in L.A. are the police
(, Mon 15 Sep 2003, 18:16, archived)
# sheesh...
the LAPD know how to call a spade a spade, don't they?
(, Mon 15 Sep 2003, 18:32, archived)
# thought of "nightstick"...
... but seeing as we're mostly Brits here, I, um, compromised
(, Mon 15 Sep 2003, 18:21, archived)