is that really a spork?

[James Kushner]

Hi everyone!

At 12:05 AM 11/5/2003 -0500, you wrote:

>chork, n. A fork whose tines have rounded ends, intended to be safe for
>children.
>by Joe Robins. 0
>Judith: That's a spork, Linda.
>Kir: spork...
>Snibor: Hrm, I could really have worded that better.  Doesn't sound very
>dictionaryish.
>Linda: I think my kids' school cafeteria served sporks.

Did everyone else use a different spork than I did? My spork-memories are 
of a plastic utensil with a rounded bowl and shortened tines, but the ends 
of the tines were still pointy.
I didn't comment on the entries much, but I did think that this definition 
was the funniest - if the ends of the tines are rounded, how useful is it 
as a fork, for children or anyone? You couldn't use the thing to impale 
food. (Well, it could still work for tofu or overboiled vegetables, I 
suppose.) I guess it depends on how rounded the ends are.

Onwards,
James