Vagueness and the Aftermath - A sporadic diary

[tikay]

Haha!

Bloody predictive toast.

We could be here all day.

Ooh!

Proper toast that.

I bet it was cooked on a long handled fork in front of a blazing fiver.

Do you know why the "prongs" on forks are correctly known as "tines"?

Seems a very odd word, when, surely, "prongs" works better.

[RED-DOG]

Haha!

Bloody predictive toast.

We could be here all day.

Ooh!

Proper toast that.

I bet it was cooked on a long handled fork in front of a blazing fiver.

Do you know why the "prongs" on forks are correctly known as "tines"?

Seems a very odd word, when, surely, "prongs" works better.

No I don't, and Google isn't much help.

I'm familiar with the word though. I used it a lot in my Hiab buying / using days.

[tikay]

Haha!

Bloody predictive toast.

We could be here all day.

Ooh!

Proper toast that.

I bet it was cooked on a long handled fork in front of a blazing fiver.

Do you know why the "prongs" on forks are correctly known as "tines"?

Seems a very odd word, when, surely, "prongs" works better.

No I don't, and Google isn't much help.

I'm familiar with the word though. I used it a lot in my Hiab buying / using days.

Yes, it seems to refer to almost any "prong".


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tine_(structural)

[RED-DOG]

I don't like it when people refer to any old fork as a pitch fork.

A good pitch fork is a marvel of design and the epitome of practicality.

It has one specific use. Do you know what that is?

Click to see full-size image.

[Rod Paradise]

I don't like it when people refer to any old fork as a pitch fork.

A good pitch fork is a marvel of design and the epitome of practicality.

It has one specific use. Do you know what that is?

Click to see full-size image.

To be left in a haypile for unsuspecting (and trespassing tbh) birdnesting kids to find when jumping into the pile from the rafters of the barn.... As my pal Baw-Kebab would testify.

[RED-DOG]

Lol. I so hope that's true, Esp the nickname.

[Rod Paradise]

Sadly for him yes - although he was lucky enough the nickname didn't stick.

Sara, having grown up in the mobile age (and in the over? protective age) can't believe we used to leave the house in the morning, with a sandwich, a cagoule, a sheath knife and with the instructions to be back by dark.

We didn't suffer too many bad injuries, apart from Baw-Kebab there was one lad went up a pine in a forestry plantation (where they plant the trees close together to force them to grow tall and straight with spindly little side branches), we could climb them as little kids so long as you only took one hand or foot off a branch at a time - that spread your weight, and you could get to wood pigeon nests that way. He got up the tree put his hand up and into the nest & the mother was still there, she burst out the nest, he used both hands to shield his face and the branches under his feet snapped - he managed to snap every branch off that tree on the way down. His landing wasn't too hard as the branches had cushioned his fall, but the stubs had raked his thighs so he walked home like John Wayne.

There was another guy who decided to pee on an electric fence, got a shock in a sensitive place and jumped, falling over backwards, while still pissing, straight up...... He just got up and walked home without saying anything (we were laughing too hard to listen anyway) and he never went nesting with us again...

[atdc21]

http://www.cliffrailwaylynton.co.uk/

No idea if that link will work as im useless with anything that hasn't got nuts n bolts.
Lynton and lynmouth are lovely places Tom.

[RED-DOG]

Sadly for him yes - although he was lucky enough the nickname didn't stick.

Sara, having grown up in the mobile age (and in the over? protective age) can't believe we used to leave the house in the morning, with a sandwich, a cagoule, a sheath knife and with the instructions to be back by dark.

We didn't suffer too many bad injuries, apart from Baw-Kebab there was one lad went up a pine in a forestry plantation (where they plant the trees close together to force them to grow tall and straight with spindly little side branches), we could climb them as little kids so long as you only took one hand or foot off a branch at a time - that spread your weight, and you could get to wood pigeon nests that way. He got up the tree put his hand up and into the nest & the mother was still there, she burst out the nest, he used both hands to shield his face and the branches under his feet snapped - he managed to snap every branch off that tree on the way down. His landing wasn't too hard as the branches had cushioned his fall, but the stubs had raked his thighs so he walked home like John Wayne.

There was another guy who decided to pee on an electric fence, got a shock in a sensitive place and jumped, falling over backwards, while still pissing, straight up...... He just got up and walked home without saying anything (we were laughing too hard to listen anyway) and he never went nesting with us again...

Great stories Rod.

Parents today recoil in horror at the thought of letting their kids play out of sight, let alone bugger off all day, but I bet of the truth were known, it's no more dangerous now than it was then.

[RED-DOG]

http://www.cliffrailwaylynton.co.uk/

No idea if that link will work as im useless with anything that hasn't got nuts n bolts.
Lynton and lynmouth are lovely places Tom.

They look stunning. We Brits are so blessed with scenery and steeped in history.

[mulhuzz]

Do you know why the "prongs" on forks are correctly known as "tines"?

Seems a very odd word, when, surely, "prongs" works better.

I do indeed (even though you weren't asking me):

tine (n.)
mid-14c., from Old English tind "spike, beak, prong, tooth of a fork," a general Germanic word (compare Old High German zint "sharp point, spike," Old Norse tindr "tine, point, top, summit," German Zinne "pinnacle"), of unknown origin (see zinc).

From the excellent etymonline.com

[tikay]

Do you know why the "prongs" on forks are correctly known as "tines"?

Seems a very odd word, when, surely, "prongs" works better.

I do indeed (even though you weren't asking me):

tine (n.)
mid-14c., from Old English tind "spike, beak, prong, tooth of a fork," a general Germanic word (compare Old High German zint "sharp point, spike," Old Norse tindr "tine, point, top, summit," German Zinne "pinnacle"), of unknown origin (see zinc).

From the excellent etymonline.com

WP Mully, I was hoping there would be, somewhere amongst Red's poetic & artistic readers, someone who actually knows something useful.

Your next cutlery question is as follows.

Give me one good reason why a "fish knife" exists, or one advantage, in the cuttage of fishy foods, a fish knife has over a regular knife.




 

[RED-DOG]

My Granny used to say "You're as daft as a horn spoon"

Where did she get that from?

[Karabiner]

Do you know why the "prongs" on forks are correctly known as "tines"?

Seems a very odd word, when, surely, "prongs" works better.

I do indeed (even though you weren't asking me):

tine (n.)
mid-14c., from Old English tind "spike, beak, prong, tooth of a fork," a general Germanic word (compare Old High German zint "sharp point, spike," Old Norse tindr "tine, point, top, summit," German Zinne "pinnacle"), of unknown origin (see zinc).

From the excellent etymonline.com

WP Mully, I was hoping there would be, somewhere amongst Red's poetic & artistic readers, someone who actually knows something useful.

Your next cutlery question is as follows.

Give me one good reason why a "fish knife" exists, or one advantage, in the cuttage of fishy foods, a fish knife has over a regular knife.




 

It's to confuse the unsophisticated when they go to a posh restaurant.

[mulhuzz]

My Granny used to say "You're as daft as a horn spoon"

Where did she get that from?

No clue on fish knives (not that classy obv) but I think this phrase is a bit like 'why is a raven like a writing desk?' A nonsense question to show how nonsensical the subject (of the question) is.