Spoon

A spoon is a common eating utensil, or item of cutlery[?], like a small spade[?], that occurs in a number of sizes and forms and is also suitable for liquid food and for stirring, and can have a number of other uses, including: courtship, combat and musical entertainment, strangely enough.

Spoon types

• Teaspoon
• Dessert spoon[?]
• Tablespoon
• Wooden spoon[?] (sometimes given symbolically as a compensation for losing a competition)
• Serving spoon[?]
• Ladle[?]
• Slotted spoon[?]
• Runcible spoon[?] (invented by Edward Lear in The Owl and the Pussycat, but later given a real meaning)
• Egg spoon[?] (used for hens' eggs; smaller than a teaspoon)
• Musical spoons[?] (because they are played in pairs)
• Love spoon[?] (a carved wooden spoon given as a token of betrothal)
• Silver spoon[?] (a small spoon given to a newborn child to ensure good fortune)
• Norse Hunting Spoon[?]
• Masai Chucking Spoon[?]
• Australian Boomerang Spoon[?]
• Apache Tomahawk Spoon[?]
• and many others...

Spoon Quotes

• "Spoon!!!" - Battle cry of The Tick, The Tick
• From the movie Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves:
  • "I'll cut out his heart with a spoon..." -Sherriff of Nottingham[?]
  • "Why a spoon cousin? Why not an axe?" -Guy of Gisbourne[?]
  • "Because it will hurt more, you idiot!" -Sherriff
• "We found this spoon sir." -Sergeant, The Life of Brian
• "And the cat's in the cradle with the silver spoon, little boy blue and the man in the moon" - "Cats in the Cradle[?]", performed by Harry Chapin and Ugly Kid Joe[?]
• "There is no spoon." -Bald Kid, The Matrix
• "There is no spoon?" -Neo, The Matrix
• "A sweet lounge lizard, with a silver spoon" -Motorhead, Stone Dead Forever[?]
• "Do you know that's the third spoon I've heard drop this month?" -Algy Longworth, Bulldog Drummond
• "That tall drink of water with the silver spoon up his ass." -Red, The Shawshank Redemption
• "They'll east their words with a fork and spoon, and watch 'em! They'll hit the road and all be surfin' soon." -The Beach Boys, "Catch A Wave"
• "They came in through the bathroom window, protected by a silver spoon" The Beatles
• Spoon = Sporadic Purveyor of Obscure kNowledge
• "And the dish ran away with the spoon." - from a nursery rhyme

See also food, knife, fork, tablespoon, spork.