I think you may be on to something, whilst we are 7 spoons down we have gained two mystery spoons- not quite dessert spoon but too big for teaspoons. Slightly melted plastic handles so they look a bit wonky. perhaps they are not yet fully formed dessert spoons?As the tea spoons dissapear do other cuttlery appear? if so I have a theory, that teaspoons are the juvenile form of the rest of the cuttlery....
Wm.
Is it Jim, but not as we know it?I have changed my name. Although ‘Mandela Effect’ is good name too.
Is it Jim, but not as we know it?
A couple of years ago I bought (or, to be accurate was bought) a set of teaspoons. Six, basic, ordinary teaspoons to replace the bastards that have crept away over the years. Within moments, I was down to five teaspoons - one thrown out, fell down the back of a cupboard, who knows?
I laboured on with my five teaspoons, until a recent visit from my brother (not a known teaspoon supplier). After he'd left, I found I was back to six teaspoons. And no, he didn't see fit to buy me a spoon, nor did he leave one of his own spoons (I don't even think he does travel with spoons, but who knows?). These spoons match. The missing spoon returns, hooray!
As of today, I have seven teaspoons. I just went to the teaspoon pot, where they live on my window ledge, and another one has arrived. Again, it matches the rest, is clean and unstained, and nobody except me has been in the house for weeks. Either the dogs are secret teaspoon smugglers, or the buggers are breeding.
Whatever you do though don't put any tea spoons in your sock drawer as it has the potential to cause an imbalance in the fabric of the space/time continuum leaving you with an infinite number of tea spoons and no socks.
It is a well known fact that if you put several pairs of socks in a confined space like a washing machine or a sock drawer for a period of time then one of the socks will vanish.
I will set up a controlled experiment with marked teaspoon in sock drawer tonight.
I found a photo of the sock dimension where the socks disappear.
https://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/newpix/...00000578-5653371-image-a-94_1524604248692.jpg
I found a photo of the sock dimension where the socks disappear.
https://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/newpix/...00000578-5653371-image-a-94_1524604248692.jpg
Be careful and make sure you notify CERN in Switzerland before your experiment just to make sure they don't have the Hadron Collider in operation at the same time to reduce the risk of spontaneous black holes.
Did you know that one of our honorary associates is a former CERN physicist?
No I didn't and given the band I am going to see on Monday do a great version of a song called "time" and this thread is about teaspoons, socks and alternative dimensions then it is only polite I share it with you all ...
Whne my first washing machine died due to 'some noises' a similar exercise revealed: 4 pairs scissors, surgical, bent. Seven pins, safety, twisted. Assorted loose change, hospital vending machine for the use off, included several old style 50p coins bent out of shape. Bits of pens, sundry and wooden spatulas, deceased. Mrs. Coal SEN found something vital to do in the other room...no socks tho'I found a photo of the sock dimension where the socks disappear.
https://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/newpix/...00000578-5653371-image-a-94_1524604248692.jpg
The new teaspoons at work are so shoddy you can bend them if you stir your tea too vigourously. The sort of things you'd expect if you got a set at poundstore. Uri Geller could have a field day with 'em.
"I have measured out my life with coffee spoons . . . " The Love Song of Alfred J. Prufrock, by T. S. Eliot
I had thought that Eliot's American background made him choose coffee, rather than tea, as the measure of life's social futilities. I have never heard anyone else mention coffee-spoons as a thing. Yet they are! Defined here as smaller than teaspoons and suitable for small after-dinner coffee-cups.
Perhaps I have harboured them all along and called them my set of small teaspoons.
My mustard-spoons are tiny and never used. I suppose Eliot could have said mustard-spoons, but that pungent tracklement lacks the quotidian habituality of coffee. :btime:
The new teaspoons at work are so shoddy you can bend them if you stir your tea too vigourously. The sort of things you'd expect if you got a set at poundstore. Uri Geller could have a field day with 'em.
Maybe he did.
Possibly, though at home we had a set of Apostle Spoons for that purpose. They were narrower and thinner, tending to the beak-like, in order to scoop through the white of a boiled egg. My small teaspoons are not just broader but thicker with no talent for cutting.They could also be egg spoons
I wish I had your luck. I have had similar experiences with losing pens - my record is 20 minutes from purchase to parallel universe. So far, none have ever come back much less procreated in my desk drawer.