FarmI wrote:

> "Blinky the Shark" > wrote in message
>> FarmI wrote:
>>
>>> "Blinky the Shark" > wrote in message
>>>> 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
>>>
>>> It's a moveable "lever" (for want of a better word) that acts as a
>>> knife stop. If the knife slips, you don't get cut because that lever
>>> folds out and stops it before it hits your fingers.
>>
>> The one in the image doesn't look movable,
>
> Trust me, it's moveable.

Not all are. What is your evidence for that one? It appears to be all
one casting.


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