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Article #4162Re: eating with fork tines up or down
From: Walter P. Zähl
Date: Mon, 27 May 2013 10:30
Date: Mon, 27 May 2013 10:30
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Leslie Danks <leslie.danks@aon.at> wrote: > R H Draney wrote: > >> alien8er filted: >>> >>> Anyone else read Mad magazine back in the 1960's? I remember a >>> satire article describing the invention of a battery-operated fork >>> with spinning tines for use with spaghetti. Now you can buy the damn >>> things... >> >> Oh, that hasn't been a mere parody for quite some time now.... >> >> Circa 1980, a man named Howard Morris released a movie called "Gizmo!" >> consisting of film clips of inventors from the 1920s through the early >> 1970s...when promoting the film, he was asked if he had noticed any ideas >> that kept surfacing again and again while he scoured the archives...yes, >> he answered, for some reason people keep trying to invent an automatic >> spaghetti fork.... >> >> The second most common idea was for an alarm clock that would force you >> out of bed, whether by stripping away the bedclothes, tilting the bed to >> make you fall out, or pouring water on your face....r >> > Or you could just get married. Well, *my* wife knows how to get up in the morning without waking me up. ;-) /Walter
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From: Walter P. Zähl <spamsink8b@zaehl.de>
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Subject: Re: eating with fork tines up or down
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