From: Adrian `Guru Zeb` Harper (guruzeb@blueyonder.co.uk)
Date: Thu Sep 13 2001 - 19:56:41 MDT
At 22:25 13/09/01, you wrote:
> From the NY Times:
>http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/13/national/13CND-AIRPORT.html
>
>on new air travel restrictions:
>"No knives of any material allowed to be carried on board. Federal rules
>previously allowed up to a four-inch blades. Metal knives for food service
>would be banned also."
>
>That's great, that means when you pay $2000-3000 dollars for a
>business class international ticket, you are going to be sitting
>there in this nice fancy chair, with a nice cloth napkin draped
>over your tray table, with your nice glass of wine, cutting up
>a nice meal (by airline standards) with a chincy plastic knife.
>
>I understand why, but by the same logic, shouldn't the forks be
>plastic as well?
>
>I can see the headlines now -- "Airlines grounded around the world
>as airline meal preparation managers scramble for plastic knives",
>"Price gouging reported by plastic knife distributors", and "Airlines
>forced to increase ticket prices due to requirements for feeding
>premashed food to passengers".
>
>There is a great patent opportunity here for someone to design
>a new piece of silverware that can be used to cut up food but
>cannot be easily used to attack and injure people.
Already been done, did you guys ever have "Splades" marketed in your locations
actually quite a nice hybrid knife-fork-spoon utensil. Fork-spoon shaped
object had
a wedged edge on one side so it cut quite well without slashing when placed
in the
mouth. Not sure if they are still production.
Could be worth grabbing a few shares. :)
I did find.
http://www.householdchina.com/glossary3.htm
Looks like you need to chat to the Aussies on the list. :)
Zeb
"FURIOUS GREEN DREAMS, LAY SLEEPING IN STATE,
BUT SOON THE GREAT JELLY SHALL RISE FROM THE
DEPTHS,
AND ALL THOSE WHO MOCKED SHALL KNOW THEIR FATE
IS SEALED"
Guru Zeb,
Hacienda,
Manchester, 1989
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