It's probably smarter than I am. [It's a joke, but it's one of those jokes where the chuckle belies a little fear that it's the truth. He sits back up.]

I used it up on the hill and when we got attacked by these things a little before that. [And almost every night he either traps a pigeon in a room or convinces someone trustworthy on the squad to help him activate it for a hit of magic, but he's definitely not advertising that fact.] Careful, it's sharp. I noticed the other day that it comes back to me when I whistle for it like a boomerang.

[There's a bit of a deer-in-headlights look on Dixon's face when Urahara says that, because there's no way he's going to pronounce that right on the first try, or ever. He scours his brain for nicknames he can use without pulling a rude "hey you".] Dixon. From Ebbing, Missouri.

[He doesn't specify the United States because as far as he's concerned, that's the default.]