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Quotation recognition [Apr. 23rd, 2010|12:27 pm]
Douglas Spencer
In a webcomic today, one of the characters is eating using an implement with three tines.

The webcomic concerned has an RSS feed which is syndicated to LJ, and so there's a post for it today.

I commented saying "Three tines is not a fork. Three tines is a trident. Forks are for eating, tridents are for ruling the Seven Seas."

People have replied as if I'm making a serious point about suitable implements for eating.

Poll #1555132 Quotation recognition
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All. Participants: 55

"Three tines is not a fork. Three tines is a trident. Forks are for eating, tridents are for ruling the Seven Seas."

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I recognise this quotation, and I know where it's from
10(18.2%)
I recognise this quotation, but I can't remember where it's from
5(9.1%)
I do not recognise this quotation
40(72.7%)


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Comments:
[User Picture]From: bopeepsheep
2010-04-23 11:30 am (UTC)
He's obviously never seen a dessert fork, though.
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[User Picture]From: quercus
2010-04-23 12:23 pm (UTC)
You can't rule a desert with a fork, you'd need a spoon or all the sand would run through.
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[User Picture]From: beermat
2010-04-23 01:36 pm (UTC)
Ah, it must be a sign of the tines...
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[User Picture]From: veronica_milvus
2010-04-23 01:45 pm (UTC)
groan
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[User Picture]From: veronica_milvus
2010-04-23 01:46 pm (UTC)
If the commenters are American maybe they don't have a sense of eating-irony.
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[User Picture]From: sarah_mum
2010-04-26 08:55 am (UTC)
Newcastle-upon-prong?
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