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== Web Comics ==

* [http://www.goldcoincomics.com/ Theo] from ''[[Gold Coin Comics]]'' always carries his trusty staff.

* [https://web.archive.org/web/20171212154432/http://www.goldcoincomics.com/ Theo] from ''[[Gold Coin Comics]]'' always carries his trusty staff.

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** The difference between a walking cane (or a snapped-off broomstick) and a hanbo is effectively nil. Hanbo are 35.4 inches in length (90 cm) in the modern tradition, about the distance from a man's ankle to hip.

* Several fencing authors of the Early Modern era, including George Silver, considered the quarterstaff the most effective of all hand weapons.

* The Irish have the [http://www.irishcultureandcustoms.com/AEmblem/Shillelagh.html shillelagh]. No, not the silly stubby cudgel that gets passed off as such to tourists, an actual stick. Ostensibly used for a walking stick, at least where British nationals could hear it given the British ban on Irish having weapons in the earlier history of [[The Troubles]], but there were several fighting styles developed using it as a weapon, with the "handle" end serving as an impromptu [[Drop the Hammer|hammer]] if need be.

* The Irish have the [https://web.archive.org/web/20120329125423/http://www.irishcultureandcustoms.com/AEmblem/Shillelagh.html shillelagh]. No, not the silly stubby cudgel that gets passed off as such to tourists, an actual stick. Ostensibly used for a walking stick, at least where British nationals could hear it given the British ban on Irish having weapons in the earlier history of [[The Troubles]], but there were several fighting styles developed using it as a weapon, with the "handle" end serving as an impromptu [[Drop the Hammer|hammer]] if need be.

* A standard-issue weapon for the Zulu Imperial Army was a staff with a wooden or metal head far smaller than that of a typical club, known to Westerners as a "knobkierie" (old Afrikaans for "walking stick with a knob on it"). It could be used as anything from a fighting staff to a light club and was famously effective as a secondary weapon to the assegai (stabbing spear). It is still used in Zulu cultural ceremonies, and to this day is a common melee weapon for home defense throughout almost all communities in South Africa. It is featured in the South African coat-of-arms.