PrintYou've Got Something Between Your Teeth... Um, Still There
NPR has an interesting piece on civil engineering professor and author Henry Petroski and his new book The Toothpick, which chronicles the history of the device. Fun facts: Neanderthals used them; in ancient Rome, Nero showed up at a banquet sucking on a silver one; at least one Japanese manufacturer is so guarded with its trade secrets that it does not allow visitors to its factory. [via Boing Boing]
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Some of those toothpicks could be used as weapons. I wonder if a toothpick has ever been used in that way. If so, I need to add "assault by toothpick" to my list of food-originated-assaults-with-intent-to-do bodily-harm. I have three on my list so far.
There was the hot grits which Al Greene's girlfriend threw on him years ago which was reported in the newspaper, and just today I read of two more. An assault by a pickle, and a burglary where the perpetrators used a bag filled with ketchup bottles to hit their victims over the heads with while making their getaway.
Karen Resta at 9:31AM on 10/31/07