When I was in high school [1] students were given a rule book on the first day of school each year. It was always amusing to read the weapons rule: "No weapon

When I was in high school [1] students were given a rule book on the first day of school each year. It was always amusing to read the weapons rule: "No weapons are allowed, which include, but are not limited to ... " followed by a paragraph long list of "weapons." Many of the rules were like that, "blah blah which includes, but limited to ... " I can only conclude that such lists were the result of some student somewhere arguing that "this isn't a weapon." [1] In the, at the time, second or third largest school district in the US.