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Dude, its called a spork. It was invented by taco bell, and its brilliant.
by wfbarks 12y ago
Dude, its called a spork. It was invented by taco bell, and its brilliant.
- djeikyb 12y agoBehold patent US147119[0], issued 1874, nearly a century before Taco Bell existed. The specific word "spork" was common enough to include in dictionaries just a couple decades later. Hilariously, if you do an google ngram search for "spork,foon"[1], you'll find that in comparison, foon is incredibly popular, completely drowning out uses of spork. I looked at the book results. It's apparent that the ocr has misconstrued ye olde "s" as an "f"; a mistake I also make, on those rare occasions I read something printed before 1800 or so. [0]: https://www.google.com/patents/US147119 https://www.google.com/patents/US147119 [1]: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=spork%2C+foon&year_start=1500&year_end=2020&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t1%3B%2Cspork%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2Cfoon%3B%2Cc0 https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=spork%2C+foon&...
- richthegeek 12y agoYeah I know. My meaning was that you could spend thousands (millions?) of dollars designing and manufacturing sporks, or you could just switch utensil as required for free. Whilst a spork is great for the singular task of "I'm eating minestrone", the benefits of it don't make it worth it having been created. Much like this project. Why not use your already-good wacom and computer and webcam, which you already have, instead of buying a product which is probably a bit shoddy in at least one of those areas?
- pmr_ 12y agoI'm going on a tangent here. The spork is the preferred tool for eating by many outdoor enthusiasts.