Bibphil
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| Interests | Finding objects in libraries. I love looking in old books (NON BCC)and finding eg ancient tram tickets. I have a nice collection of old book marks given out by between war shipping lines or with a religious text. I used to read a lot of victorian pulp novels at UQ that nobody had opened for 50 years and find cigarette cards etc. Strictly speaking the removal of these destroys context from Archaelogical point of view but hell I think the books and their inclusions will disappear soon enough to my regret. |
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Do you believe that forks are evolved from spoons?
They certainly post-date spoons. Forks actually evolved from knives.People used knives and spoons which they generally carried with them and used to spear pieces of food with their knife, in that rude manner that mum used to admonish us for. Which is true of a lot of manners, ie the old correct behaviour became the new fauxpas