On Apr 23, 11:45*pm, Blinky the Shark > wrote:
> 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
>
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Easy, peasy - you aren't old enough to remember your grandma's good
silver, but that's just a rest (like a bike kickstand) so you can rest
the used fork (and knife, which probably has one, too) on the good
white linen tablecloth without getting the cloth dirty.

N.