We all know what a Spork is, though our respective individual feelings on them may differ. So I’m simply going to post this inadequately-cited quote from the Wikipedia article on the Spork–it is allegedly (from) the opinion of a judge who presided over an unsuccessful attempt to invalidate the UK trademark for the term:

I accept that the word Spork involves a clever idea of making a single word by eliding the beginning of the word spoon and the end of the word fork. The fact that it is clever and the fact that the meaning of Spork could be said to be obvious once it is explained does not mean that it is obvious what it is. Indeed, I would have thought that if one asked a person in 1975 what a Spork was, he or she would not know. If one then explained what it was and how the word came about, one might then be told that it was obvious or that it was clever.

Thanks to Pops Turkeytimer for bring up this utensil in the OT last week.

Enjoy your spork-compatible breakfast or lunch 🥤