Too funny not to post.

Edited by markmclauchlin on 06/23/2009 01:04:52 MDT.

... or Spock?

Edited by skullmonkey on 06/23/2009 12:53:24 MDT.

Funny.
am I the only one that remembers when you could only get sporks at KFC?

Hike long and prosper?

nice finds :)

Settle an argument for me; or argue with me, your choice.

This is not a spork, right?

Its a Spork by Light My Fire. Afaik its what anyone in Europe will tell you.

Thats what you get over here, I would clasify as a spork.

"hike long and prosper" cracks me up

Edited by markmclauchlin on 06/24/2009 04:29:29 MDT.

Yeah I have one of these. I've just been arguing - for the sake of being pedantic of course - that a spork is a spoon with little tines on the end, whereas this is a spoon and a fork/knife on the same handle.

The large ones are much more useful than the more common small ones btw.

I agree with Andrew. The orange thing is more like a multi-tool, or a Swiss-Army knife that doesn't collapse. Perhaps a 'single-piece silverware' or 'multi-utensil' would be more accurate. A spork, being a hybrid spoon and fork, must exhibit characteristics of both without fully being either.

A donkey and a horse, being different species, give birth to a (sterile) mule, but if a donkey and a horse birthed two conjoined equine, with one half being a donkey and the other being a horse, it would NOT be a mule! =) Not that this is biologically possible, I'm just sayin'...

However, the fork/knife side of the orange multi-tool does classify itself as a knork!

Well, there are no formal definitions. But as Hendrik said, Light My Fire sell it as a Spork.

Cheers

Spork is a "blend" . Linguistically that means a word made from parts of two other words, not (IMHO) a specific product or design. Therefore the Fire Light Spork is ....a spork
Franco

It looks to me like a knork with a spoon at the other end :)

Possibly Light My Fire would have more difficulty selling a "knork".

spork
noun
a spoon-shaped eating utensil with short tines at the tip
ORIGIN blend of spoon and fork

So say Websters

How 'bout a knifoon?

From the freeDictionary
Spork - trademark for a plastic eating utensil that has both tines and a bowl like a spoon
Dictionary.com
Trademark. an eating utensil combining features of a spoon and a fork.
and from
http://inventors.about.com/od/sstartinventors/ss/spork.htm
What is a Spork?
The name "Spork" is a blend of the words (sp)oon and f(ork) and has also been called the runcible spoon (mentioned by Edward Lear in his 1871 poem "The Owl and the Pussycat"). A spork is a eating utensil that can be used as both a spoon or a fork.

Edited by Franco on 06/24/2009 20:35:02 MDT.