Another competition, another spoon!
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For years I have enjoyed your prize spoons (spoon prizes) without ever asking the question - Why spoons?
Isn't receiving a wooden spoon a pretty colloquial term for coming last in a contest/competition etc?
Seems to have its origin in a 19th century Cambridge University practice of awarding a wooden spoon to the student who passed their degree with the lowest marks.
Academics do have a sense of humour too :)
That's the one Pierre
I live in the backwoods. Don't get out much so have never heard of that, a lump of coal maybe, but not a spoon.
Thanks for the explanation. I'll have to research why. :)
Quote from: pierre the shy on 06 September 2025, 03:53:19 AMIsn't receiving a wooden spoon a pretty colloquial term for coming last in a contest/competition etc?
How many you won Will ? :d
After today's efforts, I'm about to win this one too!
At least half a dozen!
Nice one, Will.😀
(The spoon..not your standing in the competition. ;) )
You, I won it!
Threaded round 3 too
By the end of game three, I was so far behind, that even if I had scored a maximum win with no losses, I could not have caught the guy I was playing round four!
Thankfully he's one of my best friends, we cut our losses, put our toys away, and we played a lot of quick card games (Dog Days, latest Star Wars Card game, a WWII game, Tiny Pocket Galaxies etc) instead and had a lot of fun.