Vanishing teaspoons? (the thread featured in the NEW SCIENTIST!)

[Orang Utan]

Check next month's Fortean Times for another mention of Urban75

 

[trashpony]

I hate things that vanish before your eyes - like when you put a key on the table and as you turn your back for a second, it's magically dropped into an alternative, invisible universe awash with lost things.

Teaspoons, socks, keys and glasses all have this ability.

And am I the only person who hangs onto lone socks in the vain hope that their partner will one day reappear?

 

[editor]

Teaspoons, socks, keys and glasses all have this ability.

Glasses are the worst. How the chuffin' heck are you supposed to find them once the house fairies have moved them (unless you do that squinty things with your eyes and look like a nutter)?

 

[trashpony]

Glasses are the worst. How the chuffin' heck are you supposed to find them once the house fairies have moved them (unless you do that squinty things with your eyes and look like a nutter)?

They don't want us to find them

They're sitting there laughing as we pat our way squintily round the house, muttering ...

 

[girasol]

They don't want us to find them

They're sitting there laughing as we pat our way squintily round the house, muttering ...

That's why when I go to sleep I put mine right under the bed, and when I'm awake I always keep them on my face. Under my bed and on my face are the only places the fairies have no powers to get them.

They usually get around this by taking them when I have a shower!

 

[ruffneck23]

im sorry its me , ive nicked them all

but i cant drink a cup of tea or coffee without having the teaspoon in the mug , its a kind of security thing , then i get attatched to the spoon and take it home with me.


then i sell them to uri geller

 

[bluestreak]

*waves at the scientists*

re: the teaspoons. i can't help you there, but an unidentified sock has been sitting in the bathroom here for some weeks. maybe it belongs to one of you?

 

[trashpony]

*waves at the scientists*

re: the teaspoons. i can't help you there, but an unidentified sock has been sitting in the bathroom here for some weeks. maybe it belongs to one of you?

Is it red? I have its friend in my drawer.

Oh - and the CD fairy was Iemanja rather than you - that's another mystery solved - phew!

 

[trashpony]

That's why when I go to sleep I put mine right under the bed, and when I'm awake I always keep them on my face. Under my bed and on my face are the only places the fairies have no powers to get them.

They usually get around this by taking them when I have a shower!

I don't wear mine all the time, which means that the moment I turn my back they hide them. They excelled themselves yesterday and put them in the door of the car which I haven't used since Saturday! FFS

 

[girasol]

And am I the only person who hangs onto lone socks in the vain hope that their partner will one day reappear?

No you're not!!! I've an area on one of my bookshelves, full of lone socks, all waiting to be reunited with their long lost other halves...

I have once or twice managed to reunite some of them.

 

[pennimania]

Glasses are the worst. How the chuffin' heck are you supposed to find them once the house fairies have moved them (unless you do that squinty things with your eyes and look like a nutter)?

I have 3 pairs and still can never find any.

I think they walk away on their little plastic legs. I'm not sure i didn't see mine move just now

It's far far worse when you don't need to wear them all the time - gives them the time to flee

 

[EastEnder]

That's why when I go to sleep I put mine right under the bed, and when I'm awake I always keep them on my face. Under my bed and on my face are the only places the fairies have no powers to get them.

Under the bed????

Where the evil goblins hide????

Talk about living dangerously.....

 

[spring-peeper]

No you're not!!! I've an area on one of my bookshelves, full of lone socks, all waiting to be reunited with their long lost other halves...

I have once or twice managed to reunite some of them.

I keep them in a plastic bag in hopes of reuniting them. Odd sock - toss it in.

Every so often, I sort and toss the unpaired ones in the dustbin (that's usually most of them). Some socks are destined to be widowed or abandoned and they die alone. Circle of life and all that.

 

[girasol]

Under the bed????

Where the evil goblins hide????

Talk about living dangerously.....

Don't be silly! The smurfs live under the bed, they're friendly and they look after my glasses and keep us safe...

(The goblins live only under your bed!!!)

 

[EastEnder]

(The goblins live only under your bed!!!)

With all the crusty, used Kleenex?????

(((goblins)))

 

[girasol]

With all the crusty, used Kleenex?????

(((goblins)))

toooo much information!

 

[5t3IIa]

I was sharing a house with people, lost a load of socks and put it down to doing communal loads of washing etc. Was a swings and roundabouts type situ

Now I have moved in with ONE flatmate who only wears big hiking sock things (no risk of confusion with mine) & mine are *still* going missing! Not under the bed...not in the bathroom....all on their stainless steel honeymoons, being bought Pina Coladas by pen lids.

 

[equationgirl]

"Equationgirl et al", or a CERN-like cast of hundreds, concluding 'urban75, turn left at crack squirrel, brixton'

I reckon it would be along the lines of:

'Vanishing teaspoons? (the thread featured in the New Scientist)', by Bomber* et al, Proceedings of Urban75, Part H (Suburban75), February 2006, pages 1-4

*please address all enquiries to the corresponding author, Bomber, Urban75, turn left at the crack squirrel, brixton. Alternatively, write your enquiry in tiny letters on a teaspoon and see if he gets it (via faeriepost).

Of course, if I were to reference this in my thesis, I'd have to include all the authors according to the BSI recommendations for reference listings in theses.

 

[Bomber]

Bumps famous thread

*ahem*

 

[laptop]

* New Scientist bumps thread *

 

[Bomber]

Progress report !

After following the suspect into my kitchen I therein observed said vagrant [ a 13 year old of said abode] depositing a Caramel Muller rice container into the litter receptacle situated beneath the kitchen sink. Said pot flew through the air in a spinning motion, not disimilar to a Shane Warne wrong 'un m'lud, and upon entering aforementioned waste depositry appeared to quite clearly contain one of the new teaspoons recently acquired by our household headcook & bottlewasher [me! } . A short sharp shock was apllied via a dig to said hooligans ribs and a sentence of filling the dishwasher up was passed !! I rest my case yr'honna !!!

 

[rowan]

I lost an Ella Fitzgerald CD like that as well. Still had the cover, but even when I moved out, it was nowhere to be found.

It's probably run away with my Leonard Cohen CD that I''ve still got the cover to

 

[Wookey]

This thread is offically cool.

 

[northernhord]

We all know that there is always one lone sock left when you empty the washer but can someone explain where my teaspoons are disappearing to ? Does anyone else suffer from vanishing cutlery syndrome [VCS] ?

What a great thread, yeah missing cutlery is FUCKIN TEASPOONS, what a pain in the arse one minute youv'e got half a dozen of the fuckers the next your banging round the kitchen looking for one.

 

[Agent Sparrow]

Oi! This used to be my stoned university argument!

"Have you ever bought cutlery?" (usually replied to with a yes)
"Have you ever thrown away cutlery?" (usually replied to with a no)
"So, where does all the cutlery go?"

A perplexing subject indeed!
[/twilight zone music]

 

[miss minnie]

http://www.urban75.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=160969

case solved. next?

 

[Bomber]

By way of .................

resurrecting my most famous thread !! Have the teaspoons returned ? No I have had to buy another set just last week !!!!

 

[Santino]

What year is it?