So, Mike and I wound up with free tickets to a UT vols football game, and actually managed to swing babysitting, so we had our first date night in way too long.  I had never been to a big game like that; UT vs MTSU is not exactly the game of the year, but it’s still a home game at a major SEC school, which was pretty cool.  We sat in section Z, which actually afforded us a great view of the jumbotron, the endzone of the home team, and the back of the heads of  the 2 drunk guys in front of us.

MTSU’s band was right near us, too – as a side note, MTSU is supposed to stand for Middle  Tennessee State University, but I’m pretty sure the real name is Middle Tuba State University.  Seriously, they had, like, at least a thousand tubas.   What’s with that?

When Mike went to get us petros from the concession stand (yummiest fast food in the world) he saw this:

What, precisely, constitutes a multi-purpose spoon?   How many uses are there?  Who came up with this anyway?

According to some stuff I just made up, The multi-purpose spoon was invented in 1678 by the 17th Earl of Sandwich, who grew tired of single-use items cluttering up the place.  He had drawers and drawers full of random utensils, some of which would only be used once every seven years, and so he created the marvelous Multi-Purpose Spoon… and that is one of The Lesser Known Achievements of the Earl of Sandwich

Without further ado, I present to you, the…

Top Ten Uses of the Multi-purpose Spoon

1. Nose-Balancing
2. Digging very shallow graves
3. Fashioning a make-shift knife, or “shiv”
4. Hand-held eye patch
5. Life-raft for ants
6. Spoon puppet theater
7. Back scratcher
8. Carving out the hearts of your enemies in place of an axe – because it’s dull, and it will hurt more.
9. Catching water from very tiny leaks
10. Flossing your toes

How many uses can you come up with?