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Posted by Mucus (Member # 24) on :

Yeah! It actually exists! Wee-ha!
What will they think of next?

http://www.tripleaughtdesign.com/tispork.htm

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Posted by The359 (Member # 37) on :

Dude, we've had Sporks at school for half a decade now...

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Posted by Dat (Member # 302) on :

We've had them for perhaps two decades. Most likely longer than that. It ain't new!

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Posted by Hobbes (Member # 138) on :

Not mention at Taco Bell's. Mmmm... gorditas

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Posted by Krenim (Member # 22) on :

The greatest invention ever: The tine.

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Posted by Fructose (Member # 309) on :

I've seen sporks since I was in elementary school way back in the early 80s. Those things are old news. In the attempt to make the best of both worlds, the managed to get the worst. The prongs are too short and the holes make it a horrible spoon.

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Posted by SCSImperium (Member # 397) on :

I think we've all seen plastic sporks, but I for one have never seen spork silver, like the one in the picture.

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Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :

Yeah, I've never seen a metal spork, either. I always thought of them as a disposable item... :-)

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Posted by Fabrux (Member # 71) on :

The one in the picture is titanium... Check the website. It's also supposedly high-tech

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Posted by SCSImperium (Member # 397) on :

Actually, it looks like lead, much like something some southern colonial would eat with. I wouldn't buy the titanium gig.

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Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :

An antique pewter spork? :-)

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Posted by Hobbes (Member # 138) on :

Soon to be followed with the highly collectable Spork of the States. A 50 spork set with an emblem of each American state.

Posted by Sol System (Member # 30) on :

I think I once had a metal spork that came with an outdoors meal kit.

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Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :

Anyone else think that Spork is one of those words that, when it's said to much, looses all meaning and becomes really funny?

*imagines an episode of Space Ghost where Zorak keeps shouting out "Spork!" in the background*

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Posted by Dat (Member # 302) on :

Actually sounds like a parody of Spock to me.

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Posted by Krenim (Member # 22) on :

*Tansit speak* Predicate!

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Posted by Mucus (Member # 24) on :

I only found it funny, because I've been wondering what the hell a "spork" is after having the word rattle around my head for a few months after picking it up somewhere.
They don't exists anywhere here...except maybe KFC, but under a different name.

I somehow, got it hopelessly intertwined with the "Spam Song" on Monty Python.

Posted by Amadeus on :

(transmute)
Spoon + Fork -------> Spork

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Posted by Kosh (Member # 167) on :

Ignites Sporksaber and searches for enemies to the sharp side.

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Posted by Hobbes (Member # 138) on :

So if a spoon and a fork is a spork. Would what a knife and a fork be? Knork?

Posted by Dat (Member # 302) on :

Maybe it would be a fife. But now I'm thinking of Barney from the Andy Griffith Show.

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Posted by Fabrux (Member # 71) on :

Hehe... There's a substitute teacher in my district who's named Mr. Fife... He's a mean chess player, too...

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Posted by Teelie (Member # 280) on :

I remember seeing this one site that said the Spork was a sign of the devil.
It was all serious too, until you find the hidden index page and discover he was being satircal (whatever you spell it like).

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Posted by an'on (Member # 222) on :

Back when Chunky soups were just appearing on the market they had a promotion where one could send in for a spork...soup so chunky one could eat it with a fork or something similar was their slogan.

I found the spork to be the ultimate watermelon eating utensil. Get the juice and be able to flake out the seeds--the best of both worlds.

The newest one I've seen is the spife...combination of spoon and knife. Apparently used to scoop out the insides of kiwi fruit....which looks like it would beat peeling the things when just fixing a snack for oneself.

Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :

Is that like a spoon that's bigger than a teaspoon, but smaller than a tablespoon, with a serated edge? Cause I've had several for years now. I always used to eat my cereal with them (big spoons scare me).

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Posted by an'on (Member # 222) on :

No that would be a grapefruit spoon...the spife appeared to be longer and narrower like a knife.

Would put up picture, but the kiwi site has changed it's content.

Eating cereal with a grapefruit spoon would teach one not to be inattentive during breakfast or help one wake up real fast in the morning.

Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :

For normal people, yes. Fortunaly, I was born with especially tough lips and a leathery inner mouth, so grapefruit spoons hold no terror for me.

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