re: use of spoons for other purposes, gutter police lookout!
A guy dining in a restaurant spoke to a waiter; "Why does each waiter and waitress have a knife, fork, and spoon, in their breast pocket?"
The waiter answered, "A time and motion study found that diners were often dropping cutlery, and the waitpeople were spending time fetching new ones. Now we can immediately hand a clean item to the diner and pick up a new one on our next trip past the rack."
"And why do all the waiters have a black thread protruding from their flies?"
"Well, the same time and motion study found that we were spending a lot of time washing our hands after using the toilets. This way we can pull out the member without using our hands, thus saving more time"
"I can see that works for getting it out, but what about putting it away?"
"Well, I don't know about the other waiters, but I use the spoon"
Apologies, but it does fit the topic, Rod
