Nancy2 wrote:
> On Apr 23, 11:45 pm, 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
>>
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>
> Easy, peasy - you aren't old enough to remember your grandma's good
> silver, but that's just a rest (like a bike kickstand) so you can rest
> the used fork (and knife, which probably has one, too) on the good
> white linen tablecloth without getting the cloth dirty.

I can't download the pic If it is the carving knife and fork, do you
think it could be the hand guard Nancy? The bit that sticks out to stop you
carving your hand?