View Full Version : The Private Life of Teaspoons
125gJoe
12-26-2005, 11:57 AM
:D
Link: http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/NewsArticle.aspx?type=scienceNews&storyID=2005-12-23T001539Z_01_KRA300897_RTRIDST_0_SCIENCE-LIFE-SPOONS-DC.XML
daveedka
12-26-2005, 12:19 PM
Excellent information!!!!
I have done a couple of home studies related to this. Teaspoons seem to hate teenagers specifically. During the time when my children were teenagers the rate of dissapearance was multiplied exponentially. now that they are gone, the teaspoons seem far more content to remain although we do seem to have an occasional maverick that dissapears.
On a side note, if you drop a teaspoon in the garbage disposal, and run it long enough to Rough up the edges it seems to remove any desire that the teaspoon had of leaving. rough edged teaspoons will stay home for decades while all of the undamaged teaspoons continue to migrate (at whatever pace).
Dave
nursie
12-26-2005, 1:19 PM
There is also this phenomena that when you have determined that you need to buy new ones...the old ones start showing up again. And then some of the new ones mirgate off..so you can't set a table with a matched set of silverware. I indeed donated an old set to work and removed all from the home..so I thought..to see them slowly come back out of the woodwork.
Roan Art
12-26-2005, 2:15 PM
Teaspoons, BAH!
Forks! I wanna know what the connection is between forks and spirits.
Six years ago, when we moved to VA from MI, I put all of our dishes and cutlery in the SUV. When we got to VA and unpacked, I put ALL of them away.
The next day, when we woke up, 6 of the 8 forks were missing. I am not kidding. Vanished. A couple of days later I bought a new set of silverware, a few days later we had four forks left.
Not my husband, he wouldn't just take forks and not put them in the sink after, and my youngest was only 5 at the time, so no teenagers. This has continued and I cannot keep more than four forks in the house. Nowadays it's entirely possible that the kids lose the forks, but for the first two years we were in the house, no way!
What we did learn was that there was an old couple that owned this house and had it built for them to live in. He died six months prior to us moving in and his wife, who was moving into a nursing home, put it on the market.
We think he's still in the house. I often hear strange noises in the bathroom upstairs, where he died, and things get moved around. It doesn't really bother us to much, he's more than welcome to be here, but we really just want him to LEAVE THE FORKS ALONE!
True story!
Roan
nursie
12-26-2005, 2:44 PM
another strange thing....hubby inherited some silverware from his grandparents...teaspoons. Nothing else in the set..just teaspoons.
I don't have a problem with spoons, but I sure do have a SOCK MONSTER! I cannot figure out why every time I do laundry I put in an even amount of socks and every time I try to match them to put away there is an odd number!!! Evil sock monster strikes again!!! :p:
On a side note, if you drop a teaspoon in the garbage disposal, and run it long enough to Rough up the edges it seems to remove any desire that the teaspoon had of leaving. rough edged teaspoons will stay home for decades while all of the undamaged teaspoons continue to migrate (at whatever pace).
Dave
I'm thinking Dave, that the injuries resulting from the turn or two around the disposal, may indeed hinder the migration of said utensils. However, should you intervene by buffing the edges just a bit....you may find that the migration rate of said spoons will, in fact, improve dramatically.
However....it is severely frowned upon in cutlery circles to interfere in anyway in the lifestyles and habitations of migratory spoons. So you may find yourself in trouble with the spoon nazis should you attempt any intervention whatsoever....no matter how sincere and benevelant the intentions.
You have been warned !
kill_a_watt
12-26-2005, 6:29 PM
haha..!! omg this is so funny haha this is some weird stuff! :Angel:
Galaxie
12-26-2005, 8:08 PM
What we did learn was that there was an old couple that owned this house and had it built for them to live in. He died six months prior to us moving in and his wife, who was moving into a nursing home, put it on the market.
We think he's still in the house. I often hear strange noises in the bathroom upstairs, where he died, and things get moved around. It doesn't really bother us to much, he's more than welcome to be here, but we really just want him to LEAVE THE FORKS ALONE!
True story!
Roan
Keep the ghosts on your end of town plz, thx.
Here's a sad, but true story. When I lived in Reston, my spoons started disappearing. My sole roomate used them, but claimed to return them to the sink when finished. A few months later, I deduced that my roomate was shooting heroin and using my spoons for his mini-lab. So I kicked him out and found my spoons in a hole he had cut in the closet wall.
daveedka
12-26-2005, 8:12 PM
So the moral of the story is don't kick out your roommate because you think he's a junkie when he's really just a clepto???
Or was he purposefully kidnapping the spoons to interupt their normal migration patterns?
dave
Galaxie
12-26-2005, 8:29 PM
So the moral of the story is don't kick out your roommate because you think he's a junkie when he's really just a clepto???
Or was he purposefully kidnapping the spoons to interupt their normal migration patterns?
dave
My stories don't always have morals.... just a story. lol
I'm a single guy, my spoons have not ever migrated of their own volition. I keep them on a very strict schedule of ....food, dishwater, drying tray, drawer. They are good soldiers and as such have no aspirations of going AWOL.
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Till you get another roomate that is....you may find that though your spoons obviously are very attached to you.....they may resent the intrusion of another body mass in your abode and go AWOL.
Just be sure you stay single and unattached and your spoons may very well remain good faithful soldiers !
Roan Art
12-26-2005, 11:05 PM
Keep the ghosts on your end of town plz, thx. Aww, why? :)
He's not a bother, really, just has a fork fetish.
Here's a sad, but true story. When I lived in Reston, my spoons started disappearing. My sole roomate used them, but claimed to return them to the sink when finished. A few months later, I deduced that my roomate was shooting heroin and using my spoons for his mini-lab. So I kicked him out and found my spoons in a hole he had cut in the closet wall.Funny you posted this. After we bought the house and moved in, we found out that for the last few months the woman's granddaughter and her boyfriend had been living in it. They were junkies. How they managed to stay in the house in THIS neighbourhood is beyond me.
Anyhow, I've found burned spoons (not mine!) and syringes in the bushes, around the back of the house and buried under the trees. Everytime I dig something up to plant something or move something I find a syringe or a spoon. It's disgusting.
Roan
125gJoe
12-27-2005, 4:36 AM
For those that may want to know...
" Dr. W. A. Spooner was an eccentric Warden of New College Oxford for 21 years from 1903. He is known for his collection of 6,798 spoons, which occupied his small quarters, his study, his ante-chamber, cloakroom and attic space. Insured for 2000 pounds (a considerable sum in those days), his collection was the envy of students and academic staff alike. Once a year he used to wash them in the ornamental fountain in the quadrangle, and would throw wet sponges at any student who was bold enough to approach within speaking distance. When he died, his will specified his spoons were to be buried with him. Six grave plots had to be purchased in the local graveyard at St. Giles, and each had to be dug to triple depth to accommodate all the spoons. Many years after, when Oxford roads got their first traffic lights, it was said that the ones at the St. Giles junction would never function properly due to the amount of metal buried in the Spooner plot in the adjoining graveyard.
Spooner is also remembered for the charming habit he had of mixing up parts of words (typically the initial letter) so that "You have wasted two whole terms" might be spoken as "You have tasted two whole worms". This affliction became known as a 'spoonerism'.
I don't understand the correlation between spoon migration and teenagerism. I seem to remember spoons disappearing much more quickly when I was a younger youngin' using them to dig in the yard and such.
Drug test the teens?
sumthin fishy
12-27-2005, 10:37 AM
I don't have a problem with spoons, but I sure do have a SOCK MONSTER! I cannot figure out why every time I do laundry I put in an even amount of socks and every time I try to match them to put away there is an odd number!!! Evil sock monster strikes again!!! :p:
Yes, but have you ever noticed that its only the left socks that come up missing? :huh:
saltyc
12-27-2005, 11:06 AM
Someone I knew had a washer that died on them when they were kids, so Mom threw it in the backyard. Being the curious types, and mechanically inclined, they took it apart.
There were tons of socks that had gone over the top of the basket & were in the bottom of the wash tub...
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