Posted on 05/13/2008 12:49:18 PM PDT by Squawk 8888
Where did all the spoons go?
I want answers about that and why I have more Tupperware lids than bowls.
They all go into an alternate universe, everyone knows that. If you can’t find that left(or right)sock it is because someone in another dimension needed it! I am only half joking because we all know that socks do go missing in a washing machine that should show the socks but there it is, gone. As for spoons, well wouldn’t you need spoons in another dimension?
He ended up discovering the theory and practical application of teleporting things and people, a la Star Trek.
It could happen...
That is hillarious.
Wish I had thought of it first.
“’Where have all the bloody teaspoons gone?’”
They’ve all gone gay. They now wish to be called “Sporks,” or “Runcibles.”
http://www.spork.org/
No, they don't go missing. Socks mate in the washer and give birth in the dryer.
How else could you explain that oddball sock that shows up every once in a while when you just know you've never bought any like that?
If the spoons are valuable, check Hillary’s silverware drawer.
I just want to know if they broke the $3 million mark funding this study. Until then, zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
They could have just put in metal detectors.
Check my daughter's bedroom. I'm sure they're all there.
Sporkweasel stole them.
“Aitken and his spoon squad calculated that an estimated 18 million teaspoons go missing in the city of Melbourne each year,...”
No way that everybody in Melbourne could be as dishonest and sloppy as a bunch of pointy-headed nerds with no real work to do.
Left or right sock?
Are you serious?
This is a true story: a good friend of my wife was separated from her husband and staying at her brother’s house; after about a month and a half of doing his laundry, her own and the two boys the washer died.
Her brother who had no mechanical skills or interest in fiddling with such things bought a new washer and we ended up with the broken one.
Just for the heck of it, I figured out the pump wasn’t working so I took it apart and started looking at it.
I couldn’t turn the coupling by hand so I took out the plate screws and opened it up expecting to find a broken gear.
There inside the machine was a tangled up piece of tan Nylon - my wife’s friend had washed her pantyhose and that machine ate them.
Scout’s Honor!
After being "lost" they migrate to a dark corner of your closet where they later emerge in their adult state as ---
flimsy wire hangers.
Obviously you have no sense of humor.
I have a place for odd ball socks. Only after enough time has passed(I’m not sure how I determine that), I throw out the ones I’ve given up on. Only to have the mate show up in the next week’s laundry. And that doesn’t even take into account that I have a dog with a sock fetish and it is not unusual, if we have a particularly large amt of odds, to look under the bed and find 6 or 8 socks she has ‘collected’. But that must be done when she is outside because she is sensitive to someone going into her private stash in her presence.
One would expect that they kept the study secret from the rest of the staff, in order to prevent the appropriation of spoons just to make the researchers scratch their heads.
They need to realize that spoons, like socks, are highly anti-anthromorphic, and really hate being used by humans. They will use any means possible to high-tail it to parts unknown the first chance they get.
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