New Teaspoon Advice Please
Discussion
OpulentBob said:
glenrobbo said:
Being a right-hander myself, I feel I should pass it on to a left-handed enthusiast, but I'm struggling to put a value on it, as my current catalogues do not list it.
Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated.
IIRC it was established a few months ago that left handed spoons are classed as a "mobility aid" and are exempt from usual spooning taxes and duties. Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated.
For me, personally, tools of "the left" do not excite, and as such their value is for scrap, or for parts (however this practice is slowly gathering momentum in the wider circles). The trailing edge of a lefty mid-range Bana-El makes a fantastic as-new leading edge replacement for a 'Standard' Tenison, for example.
Blib said:
As a 'sinistre' myself, I take great offence over your comment. OpulentBob. glerobbo, YHM & yes, before you ask, I do have that amount of funding available.
+1 The "mobility aid" jibe particularly grates. Let's not forget that some of the legends of spooning were left handers. And then of course there was Geoffery von Smyth, who was ambidextrous. I'd give my right arm to be ambidextrous.
Blib, many thanks for your offer, after Opulent Bob's derisory valuation & extremely negative comments.
Wow! I had no idea this spoon would be worth that kind of money.
However, I feel it would be rash to accept a first offer and I'm contemplating offering it up for open auction* at the NEC Spoon Fair in September, and see what it will really fetch.
I expect this entry will create quite a stir.
Blib, many thanks for your offer, after Opulent Bob's derisory valuation & extremely negative comments.
Wow! I had no idea this spoon would be worth that kind of money.
However, I feel it would be rash to accept a first offer and I'm contemplating offering it up for open auction* at the NEC Spoon Fair in September, and see what it will really fetch.
I expect this entry will create quite a stir.
- With a sensible reserve of course.
Hugo a Gogo said:
Hartlepool in Teesside now?
did you know that the original Sunnex building was badly damaged in the famous German navy raid on Hartlepool in 1914
the SMS Blücher and other German ships being, or course, equipped with guns from - you guessed it - Krupp
conspiracy theories ahoy!
Apologies Mr. Agogo, it was a typo.did you know that the original Sunnex building was badly damaged in the famous German navy raid on Hartlepool in 1914
the SMS Blücher and other German ships being, or course, equipped with guns from - you guessed it - Krupp
conspiracy theories ahoy!
I meant " Teaside " of course.
NDA said:
Disturbing? I thought he was quite normal, or am I mixing with the wrong people?Oakey said:
Guys, I've been approached to join the Spoonmasons, is it worth it? I hear you have to kill a tramp with a William Cripps Hanoverian teaspoon as part of the initiation, is this true or an urban legend?
This can never be discussed in an open Forum..almost a hundred pages have gone by and nobody have even admitted its existence. You are clearly not a member of this (or not) organization, and (if it exists) today's code word was not in your post.
Pints said:
There's a tragic story behind that little film.As many on here will know, Barnaby Carder, "Barn the Spoon", was once one of Britain's foremost teenage spoonists. Few who saw him at Wakefield 2001, when he out flanged Toshiro Nagagumi in three mugs, will ever forget his virtuoso performance that wet and windy day.
However, it all went very wrong when, while in a barometric chamber, in an effort to break the high altitude spm record, he was struck by a freak electromagnetic pulse generated by a malfunction, which immediately rendered him super-magnetic. He cannot touch a teaspoon now without full emergency service back up. He was once magnetically attached to a Krupp Vorsheidt 992a for over 73 hours. He got away with his life by the skin of his teeth. But, lost two fingers.
Now, all that he can do to rekindle memories of times past is to whittle away at wooden spoons.
A terrible loss.
Blib said:
There's a tragic story behind that little film.
As many on here will know, Barnaby Carder, "Barn the Spoon", was once one of Britain's foremost teenage spoonists. Few who saw him at Wakefield 2001, when he out flanged Toshiro Nagagumi in three mugs, will ever forget his virtuoso performance that wet and windy day.
However, it all went very wrong when, while in a barometric chamber, in an effort to break the high altitude spm record, he was struck by a freak electromagnetic pulse generated by a malfunction, which immediately rendered him super-magnetic. He cannot touch a teaspoon now without full emergency service back up. He was once magnetically attached to a Krupp Vorsheidt 992a for over 73 hours. He got away with his life by the skin of his teeth. But, lost two fingers.
Now, all that he can do to rekindle memories of times past is to whittle away at wooden spoons.
A terrible loss.
Even worse, he has to use ceramic knives.
As many on here will know, Barnaby Carder, "Barn the Spoon", was once one of Britain's foremost teenage spoonists. Few who saw him at Wakefield 2001, when he out flanged Toshiro Nagagumi in three mugs, will ever forget his virtuoso performance that wet and windy day.
However, it all went very wrong when, while in a barometric chamber, in an effort to break the high altitude spm record, he was struck by a freak electromagnetic pulse generated by a malfunction, which immediately rendered him super-magnetic. He cannot touch a teaspoon now without full emergency service back up. He was once magnetically attached to a Krupp Vorsheidt 992a for over 73 hours. He got away with his life by the skin of his teeth. But, lost two fingers.
Now, all that he can do to rekindle memories of times past is to whittle away at wooden spoons.
A terrible loss.
Even worse, he has to use ceramic knives.
Blib said:
Pints said:
There's a tragic story behind that little film.As many on here will know, Barnaby Carder, "Barn the Spoon", was once one of Britain's foremost teenage spoonists. Few who saw him at Wakefield 2001, when he out flanged Toshiro Nagagumi in three mugs, will ever forget his virtuoso performance that wet and windy day.
However, it all went very wrong when, while in a barometric chamber, in an effort to break the high altitude spm record, he was struck by a freak electromagnetic pulse generated by a malfunction, which immediately rendered him super-magnetic. He cannot touch a teaspoon now without full emergency service back up. He was once magnetically attached to a Krupp Vorsheidt 992a for over 73 hours. He got away with his life by the skin of his teeth. But, lost two fingers.
Now, all that he can do to rekindle memories of times past is to whittle away at wooden spoons.
A terrible loss.
I never thought that the coroner's inquiry could or would state 'death my magnetic attraction to spoons'.
The passing of a worthy spoonista always leaves a lump in the throat - partially as the losing of bretherin is sad in itself, partly because the replacement trainee understrired the tea and the lump is a partially disolved sugar cube.
The passing of a worthy spoonista always leaves a lump in the throat - partially as the losing of bretherin is sad in itself, partly because the replacement trainee understrired the tea and the lump is a partially disolved sugar cube.
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