In elementary school, The Good Scissors™ were the pointy-ended ones. We weren't allowed to have 'em; we had to use the lame roundy-ended scissors (this was presumably for our safety or something). The roundy ones were terrible for cutting, being simply two blunt pieces of metal attached by a brad. Thus, since they were forbidden and because they were actually useful, the pointy scissors were coveted by us first-graders as The Good Scissors™. Aaah....

* Trelane soaks in a goodly amount of nostalgia.