Sheldon wrote:
> "Ophelia" wrote:
>> 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
>>
>>>> --
>>>> Blinky
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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?- Hide quoted text -
>
> HTF can it prevent carving your hand when it's located *below* the
> handle... buy a brain, O'Failure.

LOL, if you had read my post, you would have seen that I had not seen the
pic)

Makes you look very simple eh?)

But then, what is new?