The secret life of teaspoons
Dec. 23rd, 2005 11:36 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ksmithThis enlightening story from Reuters by way of Yahoo. Beats the physics of cow-tipping all to pieces. Teaspoons do indeed vanish with greater frequency than other cutlery--80% of the test stash disappeared over the 5-month course of the study--and scientists think they know why:
"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."
There was, of course, a more mundane hypothesis:
"On the other hand, they suggested, people might simply be taking them."
"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."
There was, of course, a more mundane hypothesis:
"On the other hand, they suggested, people might simply be taking them."
