“The fork spooned the knife, so the spoon knifed the fork” is a jocular, pun-filled saying about cutlery. The joke was posted on Twitter on November 23, 2013 and originated in The Tiny Book of Tiny Stories. Volume 3 (2013) by Joseph Gordon-Levitt.
“Spooning leads to forking” is a related joke.
Wikipedia: The Tiny Book of Tiny Stories
The Tiny Book of Tiny Stories is a trilogy collection of poetic tiny, short stories, no more than a few lines long each. It is compiled by owner and founder of the online collaborative production company hitRECord, Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Wirrow, a curator at hitRECord. It is published by HarperCollins’ imprint IT Books. The first book of the trilogy was published in 2011, the second and third volumes were released in late 2012 and in 2013. The slogan for the trilogy is: “The universe is not made of atoms; it’s made of tiny stories” It is suggested that the books are for 18+ year olds.
OCLC WorldCat record
The tiny book of tiny stories. Volume 3
Author: Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Publisher: New York : Itbooks, 2013.
Edition/Format: eBook : Document : Fiction : English
Database: WorldCat
Summary:
The universe is not made of atoms; it’s made of tiny stories. Featuring 82 contributors from the 35,905 contributions to the Tiny Stories collaboration on hitrecord.org.
Pg. 30:
The fork spooned the knife, so the spoon knifed the fork.
Twitter
Jordan Davies
@jordanddavies
The fork spooned the knife, so the spoon knifed the fork.
10:06 PM - 23 Nov 2013 from Hamilton, Ontario
Twitter
Joe Cacchione
@Joe_Cacchione
“The fork spooned the knife, so the spoon knifed the fork.” #TinyStories
10:36 PM - 9 Jan 2014
Twitter
Paolo V
@itspaolopv
The fork spooned the knife so the spoon knifed the fork.
10:01 PM - 11 Jan 2014
Twitter
Madison, WI
@madis0ndan0ff
Replying to @AnnabelCrowe
“@AnnabelCrowe: The fork spooned the knife, so the spoon knifed the fork” come home NY is doing weird things to you
4:09 PM - 8 Aug 2014 from Weston, FL
Twitter
Siti Farah Nirmala P
@FarahNirmala
The fork spooned the knife,
So the spoon knifed the fork.
-the Tiny Books-
10:16 AM - 4 Apr 2016
Reddit—Jokes
The fork spooned the knife.
submitted May 27, 2017 by Gigibop
So the spoon knifed the fork.
Above, a 1934 plaque from the Big Apple Night Club at West 135th Street and Seventh Avenue in Harlem. Discarded as trash in 2006. Now a Popeyes fast food restaurant on Google Maps.
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