h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

everytime I do the dishes and drain the kitchen sink there's always, and I do mean always one lonely teaspoon left hiding in the suds. Can anyone tell me why?

Regarding the operation of the Bambleweeny I.I.G. The spoon needed a really to stir the strong cup of tea (before it could start randomly generating alternate versions of reality) will often suffer a time and space shift. The destination portal appears to be your sink. It will be Vogons next.

The rest of us all blame 2legs!

My lodger always seems to leave a single stray fork in the bottom of the sink... rarely a teaspoon... and, never a spork...

I am coming to believe that I am the god of small items of cutlery!

You should always check for stray fooons they can be lethal and their favourite food is........ you guessed it Sporks which is probably why you never find any in your sink
Digger

With me it's usually some kind of knife. Or a very small measuring spoon -- 1/4 tsp, for instance. It's because it's too small to notice. 2Legs is not to blame here, but with a little ingenuity we can nlame him for something else.

[Aha! You see? I made a typo in that last post. It happened because I was thinking about 2Legs ]

Sorry FWR I think that title lies with Anoia the god of things that get stuck in drawers ( I hope Pratchett is allowed in these discussions)

Digger

Think nlame is a rather nice word!

And Digger...turn that bloody coffee machine off! You know you're not allowed anything foolish after caffeine!
Have a good holiday matey.

Yay Bob, Yay Bob. Verily we must refrain from thinking of the Great 2legs!

Lettuce Spry

mhrily so...

Oh lord of the one remaining teaspoon, left in the bottom of the sink,
bless us we remember it, and forgoet not to think,
of the poor lonley teaspoon,
its life of being left behind,
dum de dum de dum de dum mind.

very profound, love it!

can i wear a special hat?

We always wear special hats.... Of course, we've still got our special tin hats, made of alaminium foil laying about, from the time, a while ago when the world was goign to end... err I think they stopped the aliens reading our minds or soemthing... must have worked, the world didn't end, and I even put clean knickers on for the occasion too... Bit of a let down really

That's the trouble with Armageddon, big build up then...back to work, and look there's another teaspoon!

Oh. my!

You don't think... it couldn't be... its the teaspoons, stopping the world from ending!

Quick, everyone, hold your teaspoons aloft... lettuce meditate on the teaspoon
*puts tin foil hat on and holds up teaspoon*

**starts chanting**

Maybe that's why we have rather teaspoony shaped constellations...Erick von d eat your heart out, cutlery of the gods?

Ohmmmmm

And flying saucers....

According to the history of eatingutensils dot com, the first spoon dates to 1000 bc ( presumably before cutlery) adorned with religious symbols , not sure who's sink it was found in but I will continue my research to firm this up...