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  Spork - Uncyclopedia
Sporks (not to be confused with a foon) are a combination of a spoon and a fork that is useful as both.
Among the Sacred Spork cult, a heretical splinter sect within the prominent Utensilitarianist Church, the spork is worshipped and revered as being the most holy embodiment of the unification of the masculine (poking and pointy) and feminine (scooping and curved) principles within the omniverse.
Orthodox views of the Church, as upheld by its celerite priesthood (that is, not consuming celery), accuse Sporkites of a confused misreading of the holy menus, a degenerate and/or regressive view of consumptuality, and engaging in immoral and lewd rites involving the "reunion" of fork and spoon at suppertime.
uncyclopedia.org /wiki/Spork   (1346 words)

  
 Shirley Spork: A Lifetime of Golf
Spork was 11 at the time and took a job as a caddie there.
A lifetime of golf later, 73-year-old Spork is still getting it up and down from tricky places and cheerfully helping her students do the same.
Spork must always wear a hat while playing and prefers the same grips on all of her clubs, except her putter.
www.findalesson.com /profiles/Sporkprofile.htm   (712 words)

  
 Spork - Background, History, Raw Materials, Design, The Manufacturing, Quality Control
It is ideal for spork manufacture because it is resistant to degradation by water, salt, and acids, all of which are destructive to metals.
A spork is an eating utensil with combined elements of both a spoon and a fork.
In this case, the sporks are moved to a large holding bin that is attached to a placing machine.
www.madehow.com /Volume-7/Spork.html   (2005 words)

  
 Spork - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A spork, or a foon, or a fpoon, is a hybrid form of cutlery.
Sporks are also available for consumer purchase, and are often found at picnics and similar occasions.
Sporks, especially the lighter types, are popular amongst backpackers, as they are smaller and lighter than a fork and a spoon.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Spork   (1360 words)

  
 The Origins of Spork
Once she saw the chick, Spork's mother felt she had no choice: Spork was about twice the normal size and his feathers were colored in Crayola-primary yellow which would do nothing to camouflage him in the snow...
Spork was repeatedly sent for behavior modification treatment to correct his "inappropriate and maladaptive behavior," which consisted in chirping, pecking, and insisting he was a bird and could fly.
Spork was vividly aware of the contrast between the way the mental health system treated him (as if he were something between a career criminal and a severely retarded three-year-old) and the great respect which he was accorded by his many clients.
www.sporkworld.org /spork/origins.html   (847 words)

  
 What is a Spork?
Simply put, a spork is a certain kind of combination of a fork and a spoon commonly having 3-4 prongs.
It's a Wendy's spoon disguised as a spork.
This is a distant cousin of the spork, the grapefruit spoon.
www.geocities.com /Athens/Olympus/1810/whatisaspork   (187 words)

  
 Spork Adventures
Sporks are small, pointy-eared, blond-haired, purple-skinned, three-fingered things who live in half-rotten toadstools and have a more than passing resemblance to similar cartoon creatures with names that also start with "S".
Sporks live in unmitigated squalor and are governed by the despotic whims of their "leader" Big Daddy (who should pay royalties to Sidney Greenstreet's estate, if you get my drift).
Spork communities are small and far-flung, and one cannot tromp far through the Woods What Are Magic without crushing a dozen pastoral Spork villages.
members.cox.net /mirage106/sporks.htm   (321 words)

  
 Sporkism - Uncyclopedia
The ceremony entails dipping the spork in the Dr. Pepper and letting the fluid drain through the prongs while reciting the ancient ritual verse: "Ko-man-bow-ee-shee-nee orchie-livo-tangerinie oo-ee-mo-zoo-ie dunk." (emphasis on "dunk").
Sporks should never touch the ground, or likewise be placed in a situation of danger or filth.
If the Spork of Truth (the main Spork god) is angry with you and your family you must perform a sacrifice to appease Her.
uncyclopedia.org /wiki/Sporkism   (925 words)

  
 The Spork FAQ
Serving sporks with no suitable alternative is not acceptable when soups or sauces are a dominant portion of the meal in question.
When using a spork to eat mashed potatoes out of a styrofoam container, it is common courtesy to leave a little "spork waste" at the bottom rather than scrape the styrofoam with the spork to get every last morsel.
The use of sporks for launcing peas, mashed potatoes, or other inedibles is acceptable, as long as you pay the management of the KFC for any damages caused.
www.sonic.net /~ian/Spork/spork.faq.html   (816 words)

  
 Sporks Are Godlike
The ceremony entails dipping the spork in the Dr.
If all the sporks in the world were gathered into this really big pot, and a fire was started below it, the essense of all the sporks would melt into a hot broth of spork.
Then, by elevating the spork into the sky (this spork would have to be really big, so it could be seen from outer space), standing it on its handle, it would be a floating billboard demonstrating our technological achievements.
oak.cats.ohiou.edu /~jm703496/spork   (1109 words)

  
 Why is it so hard to get a good spork?
Sometimes one of the spork's edges is milled and sharpened to serve as a knife of sorts.
"Spork" is actually a proprietary term, since the thing was patented on August 11, 1970, by the Van Brode Milling Company, Inc. However, the Oxford English Dictionary (yes, 'spork' is in the OED) cites a supply catalog from 1909.
The web coughed up a band named "Spork," and supposedly there is a giant spork about 25 feet tall in front of the Chem/Biochem Building on the Kansas State University campus.
www.straightdope.com /mailbag/mspork.html   (554 words)

  
 Sporks - The Utensils of the 20th Century
According to a highly questionable rumor, the spork was invented in the 1940's by the United States army after conquering Japan.
Whatever their origin may be, sporks began appearing in fast food restaurants in the 1960's (ag592@yfn.edu).
Sporks are thus suitable for a vast variety of foods, from ground beef and casserole dishes to salads and boiled vegetables; only soup and tough steak present a problem because of their unusually demanding properties.
oak.cats.ohiou.edu /~jm703496/spork/sporkppr.html   (838 words)

  
 Welcome to the Wide World of Sporks   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
A spork is basically shaped like a spoon, but it has short, fat prongs, also called tines, at the end.
The spork moved on from there to reach every corner of the world, and is still in use today.
A "foon" is the opposite of a spork.
www.expage.com /sporkpage   (579 words)

  
 Team S.P.O.R.K. - Organization
SPORK is designed to counter all the airsoft teams that represent modern U.S. Special Forces, Rangers, Delta, Paratroopers, and other elite divisions of the U.S. Military.
SPORK, through careful planning and organization is in the process of assembling an OpFor team unlike any other.
The SPORK Radio operator will carry at least 3 radios, and must not have a problem with slinging his rifle to communicate on the team level, the allied level, and even the command or emergency channels if necessary.
home.comcast.net /~sporkairsoft/organization.htm   (1504 words)

  
 Spork World
A spork is basically a spoon with either three or four prongs on the end.
I would have to say a main issue on why the spork has not made it into households is that housewives cannot figure out where the spork would go in placesetting.
One would never use a spork to eat salad, this would be a huge no-no. Another possible reason for unpopularity is overuse.
oldminiv.www5.50megs.com /spork.htm   (418 words)

  
 Sporks R' Us || About us
A spork is a cross betwixt a fork and a spoon, or rather, a spoon and a fork.
The spork was invented in the 1940s, when the US army occupied Japan after the second world war.
The spork is a marvellous invention that offers the consumer the opportunity to eat mashed potato, steak and pudding with the same implement.
www.sporks-r-us.com /story/2002/6/10/9620/33095   (633 words)

  
 Halfbakery: Improved Spork
The spork already provides two handy features in one: that of a spoon and of a fork.
Most sporks are plastic numbers, and no white, plastic knife blade is going to cut someone's hand as they use it to eat.
But if they came upon a piece of food that needed a stronger cutting point, they could just turn the utensil around, grip a point lower on the handle, and use the dull blade to cut.
www.halfbakery.com /idea/Improved_20Spork   (618 words)

  
 www.myspace.com/perfectutensil   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
For Spork, their epic is truly just beginning.
And when they finally do hit that stage for the first time, they are likely to be one of the sweatiest groups around.
But most of all, Spork is out to prove once and for all, that a band can truly be about the music...even if they hardly ever play it.
www.myspace.com /perfectutensil   (263 words)

  
 Urban Dictionary: spork
sporking: a game involving a group of people with sporks who chase after fat kids, saying they will eat them.
Thus, the spork, a combination of the prongede wrath of the fork and the carrying capacity of the spoon.
Sporks are thought to be the most holiest of silverware.
www.urbandictionary.com /define.php?term=spork   (549 words)

  
 CD Baby: SPORK: Ocho Destructo
Spork: The grey area between Black Sabbath and the White Stripes, rockin' you like a hurricane with six fat strings, a sweet ghetto beat and no mercy for any suckas in our way...
Spork = Queens of the Stone Age + The Black Keys + Black Sabbath.
Billy Spork's deep voice and occasional Jack White vibrato complements the gasoline soaked guitars and pickup truck blues, like "All Men Play on 10," that's an ode to big muscles and bad attitudes.
www.cdbaby.com /Spork   (287 words)

  
 Spork Productions - San Diego Web & Graphic Design -
Traditionally trained in graphic design, Spork Production has had experience in logo creation, identity development (branding), stationery design, fliers, billboards, signs, packaging and more since 1998.
At Spork Productions we specialize in optimizing web sites and online identities for search engine placement to receive highly targeted qualified traffic that is proven to generate considerable sales and profits.
Spork Hosting is a web hosting solution that is a complete and all-inclusive solution for everyone - beginners, professionals and businesses.
www.spork.tv /services.html   (392 words)

  
 Elizabeth Tankersley - Me and My Sporks
It had started a few weeks ago, when my mom had said she wanted to talk to me. I sat down on a chair in the living room and she sat on the couch.
"Sporks are in my life, Joanna." I was beginning to get exasperated with people not understanding my liking of sporks.
She sounded calm, but you could tell by her eyes that behind this eerie coolness she was at the end of her rope, and if she got any farther on this figurative rope, she would fall into a boiling sea of lava.
www.nku.edu /~swa/Writers/2004/ElizabethTankersley/MeandMySporks.htm   (1072 words)

  
 Drew Burk - Notes on Construction - Spork Press
Anyway, what I’m saying is we’re undergoing all kinds of chemo here at spork, getting high-tech radioactive seeds implanted in various embarrassing parts of our anatomy, as a precautionary measure.
Speak for yourself and make it clear that the opinions are yours, that the reader is by no means to infer that the views expressed herein… etc. And do not use my correspondence in your text.
I don't believe in validity coming from anything other than intent and honesty in execution, yet I'm hyperconscious of the factors that may come into play once these books are out of my hands into the world, uncharacteristically concerned about the words people might use—kindly or no—when they refer to this.
sporkpress.com /1_2/pieces/Notes.htm   (2211 words)

  
 Spork Home Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Meet the ubiquitous Miss Meddling who is his nurse in the hospital and then somehow reappears as case manager.
Spork Comic Book with contests and information in addition to a completely new episode of the comic strip, not found on the web.
Spork risks arrest or commitment as he addresses the masses of hippies and homeless people in Washington Square Park on the conditions of the mentally ill today.
www.sporkworld.org /spork   (136 words)

  
 Spork - Slide Presentations
If more than one image is encoded in a slide, Spork takes the last one.
Spork slideshows can be configured in three different ways.
You can easily extend and customize Spork by writing subclasses and putting them in the configuration or by fiddling with the template files.
cpan.uwinnipeg.ca /htdocs/Spork/Spork.html   (629 words)

  
 The Metal Spork Capital of the World
If this is the case, all I can say is welcome to a page designed for those who ponder one of the biggest philosophical queries of the known world.
Of course you know that I am speking of the question: "Where are all the metal sporks?".
Indeed, in a recent press anouncement by Sporkmaster Evan, it was declared that Evan International would commence research and funding for the development of a metal spork that could be cherished and enjoyed by the children (and children at heart) of the world.
www.expage.com /themetalsporkcapitaloftheworld   (255 words)

  
 Spork - Spoon and Fork forging
Tonights demo is a "Spork" It is a tool that was used by the "mountain men" in the 1800's so that they only had to keep up with one eating utensil.
I do tilt the spoon and the fork upward just a little bit over the horn of the anvil so that when held in the hand the spoon and the fork are both level.
When we camp, we either fry fish or barbeque, this would be a good way to cut down on dishes.
www.anvilfire.com /iForge/tutor/spork/index.htm   (983 words)

  
 Patricia Spork
Patricia Spork is an almost-50 ruralite residing in Texas with her husband (John), a burro, 3 horses and 4 dogs.
She is blessed with two children: Carla (R.N. loving mother to three beautiful children) and Casey (lost to depression and suicide at age 19 on 12-26-00).
To Patricia, creating anything, in any way that's self-satisfying is soothing medicine for the inner soul.
www.patriciaspork.us   (366 words)

  
 Spork mentality
The spork was a fine specimen of a utensil, at least through the eyes of an 8-year-old.
But after spending a couple years digging at your nutritionally balanced meal with the spork, you began to realize some of its weaknesses.
The mini-tines weren't long enough to stab a piece of lettuce, and the spork often broke if you attempted to spear a piece of meat.
telephonyonline.com /mag/telecom_spork_mentality/index.html   (1137 words)

  
 www.myspace.com/spork   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Spork has wrapped recording sessions at Chunk of Love studios; debut album Ocho Destructo is available now exclusively at shows and the Heavy Metal Shop in Salt Lake City, or internationally through CD Baby:
Spork is the bestest band in the WHOLE FUCKING world- and they are hot as hell!
Nice SLUG interview, BUT: No mention of Rebecca's time served in Spork, nor Spork's fantastic influence on the tuned-down Subrosa sound...
www.myspace.com /spork   (596 words)

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