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1 posted on 05/13/2008 12:49:18 PM PDT by Squawk 8888
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To: Squawk 8888

Where did all the spoons go?
I want answers about that and why I have more Tupperware lids than bowls.


2 posted on 05/13/2008 12:51:09 PM PDT by svcw (There is no plan B.)
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To: Squawk 8888

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?


3 posted on 05/13/2008 12:54:02 PM PDT by calex59
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To: Squawk 8888
I read a science fiction story where a scientist got sick and tired of losing one sock in a dryer. He hooked up a bunch of monitoring equipment to his dryer, to try to find out how one of his socks could "walk off" every so often.

He ended up discovering the theory and practical application of teleporting things and people, a la Star Trek.

It could happen...

4 posted on 05/13/2008 12:54:32 PM PDT by willgolfforfood
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To: Squawk 8888

“’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/


6 posted on 05/13/2008 12:58:50 PM PDT by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra ("Don't touch that thing")
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7 posted on 05/13/2008 12:59:59 PM PDT by Constitution Day
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To: Squawk 8888

If the spoons are valuable, check Hillary’s silverware drawer.


9 posted on 05/13/2008 1:02:16 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (G-d is not a Republican. But Satan is definitely a Democrat.)
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To: Squawk 8888

I just want to know if they broke the $3 million mark funding this study. Until then, zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz


10 posted on 05/13/2008 1:04:20 PM PDT by Attention Surplus Disorder ()OK. We're still working on your ones.)
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To: Squawk 8888
Where do all the spoons go?

Check my daughter's bedroom. I'm sure they're all there.

12 posted on 05/13/2008 1:18:25 PM PDT by Jemian (Obama: in your heart you know he's Wright.)
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To: Squawk 8888

Sporkweasel stole them.


13 posted on 05/13/2008 1:22:30 PM PDT by mickey finn
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To: Squawk 8888

“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.


14 posted on 05/13/2008 1:27:36 PM PDT by Old Professer (The critic writes with rapier pen, dips it twice, and writes again.)
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To: Squawk 8888
They got dropped into the trash along with the napkins and sugar wrappers. Dropping a strong magnet on a string into each waste can before emptying it into the dumpster should rescue the ones that don't go home with employees.

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.

20 posted on 05/13/2008 1:53:04 PM PDT by redhead (I want my two DOLLARS!)
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To: Squawk 8888
Ask any child, the dish ran away with the spoon.

-PJ

23 posted on 05/13/2008 1:58:15 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too (Repeal the 17th amendment -- it's the "Fairness Doctrine" for Congress!)
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To: Squawk 8888

Why didn’t they RFID them? Then they could have known for sure.


25 posted on 05/13/2008 2:03:55 PM PDT by T. P. Pole
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To: Squawk 8888

I solved the mystery of the missing socks quite inadvertently one day when I accidentally kicked the dryer cord out of the wall. It kept running. Yep. Dryers don’t really run on electricity. They run on socks.


26 posted on 05/13/2008 2:04:47 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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"There is no spoon."

29 posted on 05/13/2008 2:11:04 PM PDT by evets (I have a crush on Hillary.)
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To: Squawk 8888
There are no spoons...


31 posted on 05/13/2008 2:12:29 PM PDT by Wyatt's Torch (I can explain it to you. I can't understand it for you.)
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To: Squawk 8888
In the greater universe of smaller things, some objects seem to have a mind, and get-away plan, all their own.

Usually in our house with the help of our toddler into whatever he has figured out how to open/climb on/crawl under.

34 posted on 05/13/2008 2:14:52 PM PDT by dan1123 (If you want to find a person's true religion, ask them what makes them a "good person".)
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To: DollyCali

The prestigious British Medical Journal mentioned the study two years ago, and the final data is now used in Africa and in schools in the U.S., as a teaching tool on how to conduct a research project.
-—<>-—<>-—<>-—<>-—<>-—

Amusing study, and amusing comments.


39 posted on 05/14/2008 6:51:41 AM PDT by AFPhys ((.Praying for President Bush, our troops, their families, and all my American neighbors..))
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To: Squawk 8888

Why do see just one shoe (usually a sneaker) laying on the road? Did someone put their feet out the car window and push a shoe off? Was someone attempting to cross the road and ran out of their shoes to avoid oncoming traffic? Did they just never like that particular shoe? I would be willing to accept a $250,000 Federal grant to study this issue.


42 posted on 05/14/2008 7:36:08 AM PDT by OffMyMeds (Crede et manducasti)
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