hahabogus wrote:

> "FarmI" <ask@itshall be given> wrote in
> :
>
>> "Blinky the Shark" > wrote in message
>>> This is a screen capture from a film I'm watching -- "The Third Man", a
>>> 1949 noir set in Austria right after WWII. A bird is being carved.
>>> What is the rod that my arrow is pointing to, that sticks
>>> perpendicularly out of the fork. I've not seen this before. But, of
>>> course, I do live under the sea (not far from an octopus's garden).
>>>
>>> http://blinkynet.net/stuff/fork.jpg
>>
>> It's a moveable "lever" (for want of a better word) that acts as a knife
>> stop. If the knife slips, you don't get cut because that lever folds
>> out and stops it before it hits your fingers.
>>
> For additional film footage...see Mr blandings builds his dream
> house....Cary Grant circa 1947,1948...He uses one to carve a ham in a

Right on -- it's from 1948.

> scene.If I remember rightly.

And it's a fun film, too.

If I see it again, I'll try to remember to watch for the fork.


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