Blinky the Shark > wrote:

>This is a screen capture from a film I'm watching -- "The Third Man", a
>1949 noir set in Austria right after WWII. A bird is being carved. What
>is the rod that my arrow is pointing to, that sticks perpendicularly out
>of the fork. I've not seen this before. But, of course, I do live under
>the sea (not far from an octopus's garden).

>http://blinkynet.net/stuff/fork.jpg

Looks to me like a hilt to prevent the fork from going in too far,
when you shove it into a greasy bird. But I've also never seen
this before.

Great movie BTW. Especially the zither.

Steve