Saturday, February 27, 2010

the evolution of forks

I just saw that Jody's profile inquires, "Do you believe that forks are evolved from spoons?" She asks us not to joke about evolution. I probably similarly debase science by letting it inspire greasy analogies, but I can't help but answer the question by saying that if there's at least a cartoon positing that the Y chromosome evolved by way of deletions from the X, then maybe we can argue that forks, like little men, evolved from lady spoons.

Yeah, roll your eyes. I'm eating my oatmeal with flax seed (see comment stream on post about the F word).

2 comments:

Jody said...

So there should be a spork in the fossil record?

Robin said...

Hmmm . . maybe some spoons with little bites on the edges, then little stubs, then little arms . . . would they be sporks then foons or vice versa?