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I have a favorite fork. It's a one-of-a-kind sort of fork of the type you
end up with going to garage sales and such. I also have a favorite spoon,
also unique.
I like the pattern of the handle on the fork. I also like the very long
prongs on the rather narrow head.
I like the spoon because it is wide like a tablespoon, but smaller like
a teaspoon. Which makes it great for both stirring and eating things like
soup.
I have matched silverware, but when I reach into that drawer the first
thing I look for is the special fork. I think my BFF Julie is kind of the
opposite way about things like that. If she had a bunch of mixed type
forks in her drawer, she's the type of person that would enjoy closing her
eyes and reaching down in and surprising herself with what type of fork
came out.
Julie told me not too long ago that there were two things that she thought
kind of odd about me when she first started going with me. The first was
that I would lock my front door when I went down the one flight of steps
to the mailbox to get my mail. The other thing that she thought odd was a
piece of "really cool" (my words) software that I insisted on showing her
called The Practical Antenna Handbook. The software on the CD-ROM
allowed you to choose from a wide variety of antenna types and tweek them
according to what frequency you desired to use. Then the software would
automatically compute the lengths of the antenna sections for that frequency.
Now in my defence, having lived on my own in an apartment since I was
in my late teens, I had to be sure to lock my door when I left the
apartment. Bad things can happen in the Big City if you don't lock your
door when you leave. For example, you can return to find all of your
stuff gone. So for me locking the door became automatic. It wasn't
something I thought about after a good number of years, I just did it.
That's the reason I would lock my door when I went the ten feet to get
the mail — I just didn't even think about it, I did it unconsciously.
As for the antenna software, I was in the second semester of my return to
college at that point and during that time, before I came to my senses,
I was pre-engineering. So I had picked up the antenna software because I
really did think it was cool. But perhaps it wasn't all that interesting
to everyone, I will admit that.
Okay, maybe I am a bit weird. Or a large part Virgo. But I liked my antenna
software. And I like my fork and spoon too, and I'm sticking with them.
Next month, maybe I'll write a dozen paragraphs or so about my favorite
necktie. Because that's a topic that really does need to be gone into at
length, what with all the terrible neckties out there these days.
from The Practical Antenna Handbook.
I have a favorite wooden spoon that I use for cooking. Everything. Soups, sauces, meats, gravies.I mean, everything.I guess that means I'm weird, too.Nahhhhhh.:whistle::lol:
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I will eat with anything, fingers most often. I guess that just makes me an uncivilised slob! 😀
Richard, just dig dig dig into those Buffalo hot wings. 😀
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i have a favorite fork and knife too; they're photographs taken at a intra_costal waterway cafe in Florida one Saturday afternoon while waiting for ouR food TO arrive; the conversation was horribly boring; one of those: it's all about me and mine conversations. i didn't have a camera with me so i asked to borrow the digital one that the visting people had with them, then downloaded the images when we got back to the house.i used several photo editors to change the images many many times and created a series in one incarnation that i framed, signed and sold to a big city eatery. Now they hang in a quality resturant in a series of 6 in a row with black frames with no mat borders.i was paid well for the images plus often eat for free when i'm there and the owner see's me. As great as that fact is that is not the value that makes them my favorite fork and knife. It's the ART, it's the process of creation, the controversy and the accolades, it's a little bit about the irony that the fork and knife created a hunger to do more resturant art. In my wildest imagination i can see feeding myself for life with food art.If i could learn how to insert a picture in my blogs ( someone told me but i haven't mastered the process yet ) i would include a thumbnail so you could see what i'm talking about.Just incase someone decides to tell me how to insert the images in my blog post once again please also send me a PM with the same instructions.
Thanks, Krypto. It's an interesting story and thanks for sharing it. I'll send you a PM in a hour or so with instructions for posting photographs.
I don't know if you have tried this but you might contact the American Museum of Cutleryhttp://www.google.com/gwt/x?q=museum+of+cutlery&resnum=3&ei=4hQyTICyGZeuMoq-oroB&ved=0CAwQFjAC&hl=en&source=m&rd=1&u=http://www.iloveny.com/What-To-Do/See-And-Do/American-Museum-of-Cutlery/10118.aspxIf that link doesn't work (I'm doing this on the Blackberry) just Google the name. I nioticed to that there is a Swiss Museum of cutlery also, so that may be true of other countries as well. So, you might email one of them with images of the set. If they didn't know perhaps they could tell you better how to proceed. Good luck!
JannE writes:I have a serving set, silver knife and fork, I would like to post to see if anyone can identify. I have researched (and still am) hours with only a few things I know: the only hallmark on each of them is an oval with '800' indicating they were made in Italy. They have characters of, I think, court jesters on the ends. The fork has an etched fish in the shallow bowl, so I am only assuming it is a fish server. The spoon's shallow bowl is pierced with the same character as the end. The shafts of both are 'twisted'. Tell me how to post them!!! Thanks