Oh yes, I forgot about the cuticle nippers they saw on the x-ray and wanted to hand inspect -- I just measured the cutting surface on them and it's exactly .25 inches long.

Don't get me wrong: I thought the screening was intense, but I didn't object to it. In fact the hard-nosed security was a welcomed surprise in light of the apparently-tolerant German government's recent decision to put one of the TWA 847 hijackers back on the streets (Google "Mohammed Ali Hamadi" if you don't know what I'm talking about).