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Light-Hearted article rings true...

Starthinker

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Just read this on Yahoo!:

In a study at their own facility, a group of scientists from the Macfarlane Burnet Institute for Medical Research and Public Health in Melbourne secretly numbered 70 teaspoons and tracked their movements over five months.

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Taking a tip from Douglas Adams' Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy books, they suggested that the teaspoons were quietly migrating to a planet uniquely populated by "spoonoid" life forms living in a spoonish state of Nirvana.

They also offered the phenomenon of "resistentialism" in which inanimate objects like teaspoons have a natural aversion to humans.

On the other hand, they suggested, people might simply be taking them.
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Now, how many things discussed on this forum follows exactly the same reasoning? Two extreme wooish explanations and one logical explanation.
 
Well, I don't seem to be losing spoons, so I guess they're happy where they are. But my D*$() sewing needles keep migrating somewhere; and I refuse to believe I'm just absentmindedly setting them down somewhere and forgetting them. They're probably joining up with my missing scissors and screwdrivers, and planning some sort of violent revolution as I speak.
 
I read this article (identical wording) in The Metro "newspaper" the other day, only it was under a title claiming the mystery of missing spoons had been "solved". I don't see any solution, only a description of the problem. People write anything, don't they?
 
luchog said:
Well, I don't seem to be losing spoons, so I guess they're happy where they are. But my D*$() sewing needles keep migrating somewhere; and I refuse to believe I'm just absentmindedly setting them down somewhere and forgetting them. They're probably joining up with my missing scissors and screwdrivers, and planning some sort of violent revolution as I speak.
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They're waiting for you to walk around barefoot.
 
luchog said:
But my D*$() sewing needles keep migrating somewhere; .
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Give your pin cushion a deep massage. Needles don't have heads on them that keep them from being submerged, so a threadless needle will sink out of sight. and, the threads on needles tend to get pulled out...

I remember my little brother stepped on a needle in the rug. It went in eye first, then it broke in half. The exposed pointy end was easy to remove, but pulling on the thread only made the broken tip act like a spear/hook/barb. Another one of us young'uns headed for the emergency room.
 
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