The Everlasting Mystery Of Teaspoons

catseye said:
It's a fork I've lost, Tunn. Spoons are spontaneously breeding here.
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I'd be careful. Sometimes forks have been know to cross breed with spoons (they're called sporks).

Have a look round for signs of nesting. The fork could be sitting on the baby sporks to keep them warm while hidden away out of sight to protect them.
 
kesavaross said:
I'd be careful. Sometimes forks have been know to cross breed with spoons (they're called sporks).

Have a look round for signs of nesting. The fork could be sitting on the baby sporks to keep them warm while hidden away out of sight to protect them.
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Is it like Ligers and Tigons? A female fork and a male spoon is a Spork and a female spoon and male fork is a Foon?
 
I've started photographing cutlery in the wild.
Here's my first sighting, at the Heron supermarket.

Inside I spotted some cut-price desserts.
As I was there to pass the time before collecting Techy there was time for a snack.

Hmm, I thought, if only I had a spoon... :thought:

Wait a minute! :bthumbup:

No I didn't but it was a close call. :chuckle:
 

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escargot said:
I've started photographing cutlery in the wild.
Here's my first sighting, at the Heron supermarket.

Inside I spotted some cut-price desserts.
As I was there to pass the time before collecting Techy there was time for a snack.

Hmm, I thought, if only I had a spoon... :thought:

Wait a minute! :bthumbup:

No I didn't but it was a close call. :chuckle:
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We (the Co Op) have little bamboo spoons and forks that are in the fridge with the packaged salads and desserts in the 'snacking on the go' (dreadful phrase, call it 'eating between meals') section.

The other night I was locking up outside and noticed that there are FISTFULS of these now discarded right outside the door. There is a bin, right there! I guess people are picking up too many and dropping them on their way out (I've found a few by the inside of the door too).

I know they don't count as real cutlery, but they are definitely in the wild, given the winds we've had lately. Someone is going to get a wind-borne fork in the eye soon if they're not careful.
 
catseye said:
We (the Co Op) have little bamboo spoons and forks that are in the fridge with the packaged salads and desserts in the 'snacking on the go' (dreadful phrase, call it 'eating between meals') section.

The other night I was locking up outside and noticed that there are FISTFULS of these now discarded right outside the door. There is a bin, right there! I guess people are picking up too many and dropping them on their way out (I've found a few by the inside of the door too).

I know they don't count as real cutlery, but they are definitely in the wild, given the winds we've had lately. Someone is going to get a wind-borne fork in the eye soon if they're not careful.
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They are born in litters known as a "tray" or a "drawer" wrapped in a protective cloth or rag. Once the fledged forks or spoons emerge the rag flutters away causing all sorts of problems.
 
brownmane said:
I know I have been here too long when I get (some, but not all) the in jokes.:rollingw:
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:rollingw: I just post a laughing emoticon from time to time. That way someone might think I'm down with all the cool happening members. Or hepcats in modern parlance!

Which reminds me, I need a volunteer to walk in front of the motorbike carrying a flag!
 
Frideswide said:
:rollingw: I just post a laughing emoticon from time to time. That way someone might think I'm down with all the cool happening members. Or hepcats in modern parlance!

Which reminds me, I need a volunteer to walk in front of the motorbike carrying a flag!
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I don't have a flag. Would a rag on a stick do?
 
escargot said:
I still dunno what the rags are about. :dunno:
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:rollingw

I told you in a PM and you said the thread had looked so boring that you hadn't bothered

:rollingw

I do actually recommend it. Nice mix of accuracy, misunderstanding, reasonable hypothesis, attempts at testing said hypothesisessssis, sensible sifting of what was before us....

Except that a splinter group of malcontents and ne'erdowells decided that it's all down to a rag on a stick! :dunno:
 
Frideswide said:
:rollingw

I told you in a PM and you said the thread had looked so boring that you hadn't bothered

:rollingw

I do actually recommend it. Nice mix of accuracy, misunderstanding, reasonable hypothesis, attempts at testing said hypothesisessssis, sensible sifting of what was before us....

Except that a splinter group of malcontents and ne'erdowells decided that it's all down to a rag on a stick! :dunno:
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Remind me. :chuckle:

Was it sport? I hate sport.:thought:
 
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