When I saw the title for this thread the first thing of was something akin to a Garden Gnome, but with a gold grill and some kind of sports jersey.
When I was younger I worked for a guy hanging vinyl siding. We were working on a really nice house in Knoxvile owned by an older couple and we needed to cut some branches, but we didnt have any cutters. My boss asked the home owners for some and a few minutes later the wife comes around the house with this little pair of snips. He got the snips and went to use them on a branch about as thick as his thumb, he squeezed and squeezed, but couldnt cut through it. The lady, at least in her 70s, snatched the snips back from him and cut right though it. He was embarrassed to say the least and we were all laughing our butts off!
She clipped a few more branches before she finally showed him that they were a ratchet type clipper.