Found a spoon of modest value
Okay, I can't decide which to post, so pick your favorite:
- I'd love to know the back story on this.
- You should turn it into the police. Someone is probably looking for it.
- My friend's son is a bad boy (teen). He has often taken spoons to eat yogurt or whatever and then dropped them when he finished, outside. She has had to buy several sets of flatware.
4. "A Spoon of Modest Value" would make a great Barbara Taylor Bradford novel title.
ridski said:
4. "A Spoon of Modest Value" would make a great Barbara Taylor Bradford novel title.
Good one!
If it is a white plastic spork with KFC stamped on the handle it may be mine.
Do you see me laughing about not being able to eat my KFC coleslaw?
I am still figuring out how the OP knew the spoon has "modest value" (did they have it appraised?) and that it is part of a set. 
I didn't even see the humor in this because it seems anytime I put a real spoon in my kid's lunch it must have gotten tossed. I'm down at least a handful. I can't even find my set on replacements.com!
I have a few mismatched spoons and forks that I use for anytime someone needs to take a spoon to school or work. If you go to Unique they have little bags with flatware, usually mismatched, really cheap. My matched set flatware do not leave the house.
I took a course on Persian Spoon Warfare at university and can help in identifying this object. Please post a photo or at least advise whether or not this object might in fact be a spork.
dave said:
I took a course on Persian Spoon Warfare at university and can help in identifying this object. Please post a photo or at least advise whether or not this object might in fact be a spork.
That's not a spork...
@kmk - I identified the manufacturer and the pattern and looked it up on Ebay. I imagine this type of spoon comes in a set.
I would be suspicious of any dishes you find outside. Every one knows that "the dish ran away with the spoon" . They are a mischievous lot
unlikely that any true dish would run away with a spoon of modest value.
jimmurphy said:
unlikely that any true dish would run away with a spoon of modest value.
Oh sure, the "No true dish" fallacy.
I perceive two separate threads intertwined on this thread: there's my thread trying to find the owner of this 100 year old spoon that I found and then there's the "peanut gallery" cracking jokes. I got some chuckles while reading this stuff and I think that we have some people here on MOL that should be doing improv instead. But I gotta remind you that Lost and Found is typically serious business, certainly for the person losing things, even spoons of modest value.
Have you notified the MPD that you found the spoon and given them a description? This is the first place that someone losing something of value is apt to check and the closest thing we have to a town-wide lost and found. As has been pointed out frequently in such threads, not everyone who may have lost a spoon reads MOL.
Have you dusted the spoon for fingerprints?
Wait. In all seriousness, you haven't touched the spoon, have you?
If so, ignore Joan's advice...
ridski said:
4. "A Spoon of Modest Value" would make a great Barbara Taylor Bradford novel title.
At first I thought it was a Joni Mitchell song.
@joan_crystal - you really feel like the police would give me the time of day for a lost "spoon of modest value"? I kind of thought they would not take me seriously. I guess I can give them a call. Thanks for this suggestion.
@jimmurphy - the first thing I did when I brought the spoon home was I washed it. After all, who wants a "dirty, lost, spoon of modest value" cluttering up their house?
sevzas said:
I perceive two separate threads intertwined on this thread: there's my thread trying to find the owner of this 100 year old spoon that I found and then there's the "peanut gallery" cracking jokes. I got some chuckles while reading this stuff and I think that we have some people here on MOL that should be doing improv instead. But I gotta remind you that Lost and Found is typically serious business, certainly for the person losing things, even spoons of modest value.
I'm sorry I started with the wisecracks. I couldn't resist! OTOH, didn't I say that someone would mention that you should have contacted the police?
No peanut gallery allowed, I'm told that due to allergy concerns MOL is now a peanut and soy free zone.
The_Soulful_Mr_T said:
ridski said:
4. "A Spoon of Modest Value" would make a great Barbara Taylor Bradford novel title.
At first I thought it was a Joni Mitchell song.
Funny you should say that, as "(I Thought It Was A) Joni Mitchell Song" is listed as a rare b-side by The Sundays.
The object in the rendering of American Gothic above is NOT a spork . It is a runcible spoon.
sarahzm said:
The object in the rendering of American Gothic above is NOT a spork . It is a runcible spoon.
Stuff and nonsense! A Runcible Spoon is simply a long-handled wide-ladeled spoon which can also be used for catching frogs by ducks called Dolomphius as illustrated by Lear below. I see no tines in this Runcible Spoon, madam.
I can't wait to see the police sketch
Age: About 100 years
Height: 6"
Complexion: Silver
Income: Modest
Name: Not disclosed until next of kin notified
Location: Found laying alone on the ground, separated from it's family
I found a spoon laying on the ground in Maplewood. My research tells me it's of modest value (not a cheap, ordinary spoon). If you think it belongs to you, tell me which street(s) you might have dropped it or post a picture of another spoon from the same set.