Forking?

[carnation]

We walked outside last week to find our yard covered in plastic tableware sticking up out of the ground, handles down. So did a lot of our neighbors. Apparently this is the new "toilet-papering" (or wrapping or rolling, whatever you call it). My problem is that it was clear (thus hard to see at first) and the kids could have tripped on it and gotten badly hurt...also, it takes a lot longer to clean up than toilet paper.

Has anyone else heard of this?

[xo_kathy]

I was just thinking about this a couple days ago!

We called it sporking because we used sporks (part spoon/part fork hybrid). We'd take as many as we could from Taco Bell and hit up a friend's yard. We did it all the time. None of us ever hurt ourselves. It did stink when your firends hit your yard b/c your parents made you clean it up - but it was lots of fun!

[SigKapSweetie]

That's really odd. Am I the only one who finds that really odd? We never did stuff like that as kids. At least TP is biodegradeable.

[Sister Havana]

Oh yes. My dad's golf team (he coaches high school girls golf) has done that to our yard in the past, generally the night before the state tournament. It accompanies TPing around here.

[KatieKate1244]

I've never heard of this before. However, it does give me something to do tonight

[bluefish81]

I did it on occassion back in my high school days. It was a good option when there were no trees/bushes at the house of choice. We never used clear forks though.

[GeekyPenguin]

The best part about forking is doing it when the ground is going to freeze so the forks get stuck in the ground.

We had a fraternity fork their letters in our yard once, it was kind of funny. We did it back on a much larger scale.

Originally Posted by bluefish81

We never used clear forks though.

I was wondering what color forks they were. I figured that using clear ones would defeat its purpose.

Weird. I don't think I've ever seen forking done here.

[carnation]

All day I've kept thinking of cheerleading camp many years ago--some university there had Devils for a team name and their cheerleaders kept chanting, "'Fork you! Fork you!" all week.

[Kevin]

Our chapter house used to receive frequent 'forkings.'

A tip to the would-be forkers of the world:

Dip the fork's handles in vaseline before you stick 'em in the ground, or in the alternative, stick 'em in the ground, then apply the vaseline. This made it a lot more difficult for us to clean up.

I believe after this happened to us a few times, some of our guys crawled up under the offending sorority's house and deposited raw hamburger meat. Within about two weeks (and during a national visit), the house smelled like death. I hear they almost got in some pretty serious trouble over this

[Hegemon]

When I first saw the title of this thread, I wondered if there was a new variation of "spooning" that I haven't been introduced to yet!

[aggieAXO]

That's all we need is more trash for the dump

[jadis96]

sad to admit in college we did this a few times. normally it was using white plastic forks in different chapter yards. i will also own up to we always did it during pledge periods so that we could then watch the pledges get yelled at to clean it up. different times.

[FHwku]

Originally Posted by Hegemon

When I first saw the title of this thread, I wondered if there was a new variation of "spooning" that I haven't been introduced to yet!

spooning leads to forking.

[Still BLUTANG]

Originally Posted by KatieKate1244

I've never heard of this before. However, it does give me something to do tonight

ditto!

this sounds like fun. when i was in college people did really destructive, hurtful pranks. nev mind, i guess they weren't pranks if people got hurt. lol