Perhaps a list member has already posted this, but a slide rule was
briefly used in the most recent episode of the TV show "Numbers"
(Fridays on CBS). In the scene Larry, a scientist who is assisting the
FBI, is trying to reenact the events of a murder and he uses a slide
rule to simulate a knife. The FBI agent who is working with him tells
him that he is not holding the knife/slide rule correctly. He grabs it
out of Larry's hand and proceeds to simulate cutting his throat with
it. The slide rule was a one-sided, closed-frame, 10" wooden rule with
white laminate. It looked like the back of the rule had a conversion-
factor type label on it. This isn't exactly a new use for a slide
rule. I can remember "knifing" and "stabbing" classmates and myself
many times when I was young!

Paul Huff