# Fork you **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 11, 2007, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fork-you/415200 "2007-08-11T00:31:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2007, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fork-you/415200/1 "2007-08-11T00:31:45Z")
[UR DOING IT WRONG!](http://www.snopes.com/photos/medical/forknose.asp) Or: ‘How do you think you use it? By shoving it up your nose?’ is not what you want to say to a kid who takes things literally. Or: I hate this forkin’ place. (Warning: Image may upset some people.) ---
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2007, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fork-you/415200/2 "2007-08-11T00:36:44Z")
[QUOTE=Johnny L.A.] [UR DOING IT WRONG!](http://www.snopes.com/photos/medical/forknose.asp) Or: ‘How do you think you use it? By shoving it up your nose?’ is not what you want to say to a kid who takes things literally. Or: I hate this forkin’ place. (Warning: Image may upset some people.) [/QUOTE] Is this a Snopes about the picture of the kid with the fork jammed through his nose? What’s the skinny on that, my company’s firewall has Snopes blocked out (and yes, the mentality that would block Snopes but allow CNN is deeply disturbing. I shall be contacting a headhunter on Monday) ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2007, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fork-you/415200/3 "2007-08-11T00:39:00Z")
[QUOTE=Inigo Montoya] Is this a Snopes about the picture of the kid with the fork jammed through his nose? [/QUOTE] Yes. On 11 July they were at a Chinese restaurant. The kid was climbing into the booth with the fork in his hand and fell on it. ETA: > [@Mother](#): > > It’s real. Happened July 11th in Minneapolis at a chinese buffet restaurant. He was climbing into the booth and fell while holding his fork in his hand. When the waiter picked him up from under the table the fork was through his nose. There was only a little blood because the fork tines missed all of the cartilage in his nose (Thank God). The one picture is from the ER and the other picture is two days later at home. The ER doctor and ENT doctor we saw the following day said that they had never seen this before and that we were pretty lucky that the fork went up and out through his nose. We saved the fork and this picture for him to see when he gets older. We emailed the pics to our family, coworkers and friends and now they are all over the internet. Live and learn I guess. ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2007, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fork-you/415200/4 "2007-08-11T00:43:54Z")
Actually it happened at a drive through. Thay _Always_ fork you at the drive through! ---
**Author:** ![Swampwolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8edcca/32.png) [@Swampwolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Swampwolf)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2007, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fork-you/415200/5 "2007-08-11T01:10:21Z")
Wow. Well, at that age, I don’t expect him to know that you’re supposed to use a _spoon_ for coke. ---
**Author:** ![Rico](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rico/32/3582_2.png) [@Rico](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rico)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2007, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fork-you/415200/6 "2007-08-11T02:07:22Z")
And here I thought you were into _sporks_. ---
**Author:** ![Duke\_of\_Rat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Duke\_of\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke_of_Rat)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2007, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fork-you/415200/7 "2007-08-11T02:08:44Z")
That kid’s done. ---
**Author:** ![Suburban\_Plankton](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suburban_plankton/32/219_2.png) [@Suburban\_Plankton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suburban_Plankton)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2007, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fork-you/415200/8 "2007-08-11T02:14:56Z")
[QUOTE=Duke of Rat] That kid’s done. [/QUOTE] It took me about five full seconds to get that. Bravo! ---
**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2007, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fork-you/415200/9 "2007-08-11T02:33:01Z")
[QUOTE=Johnny L.A.] Yes. On 11 July they were at a Chinese restaurant. The kid was climbing into the booth with the fork in his hand and fell on it. [/QUOTE] Which is why it is important, even at young ages, to teach children to eat Chinese with chop sticks rather than with a fork. The blunt tips are not nearly as likely to inflict puncture wounds. ---
**Author:** ![LorieSmurf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a587f6/32.png) [@LorieSmurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LorieSmurf)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2007, 6:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fork-you/415200/10 "2007-08-11T06:47:48Z")
[QUOTE=tomndebb] Which is why it is important, even at young ages, to teach children to eat Chinese with chop sticks rather than with a fork. The blunt tips are not nearly as likely to inflict puncture wounds. [/QUOTE] Unless you trip and the chopstick goes up your nose and INTO YOUR BRAIN!! :eek: ---
**Author:** ![LiveOnAPlane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3d9bf3/32.png) [@LiveOnAPlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LiveOnAPlane)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2007, 7:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fork-you/415200/11 "2007-08-11T07:30:16Z")
[QUOTE=LorieSmurf] Unless you trip and the chopstick goes up your nose and INTO YOUR BRAIN!! :eek: [/QUOTE] Well, yeah, but if one goes into each nostril, hey, you got stereo! ---
**Author:** ![LiveOnAPlane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3d9bf3/32.png) [@LiveOnAPlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LiveOnAPlane)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2007, 7:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fork-you/415200/12 "2007-08-11T07:31:22Z")
No, wait… ---
**Author:** ![devilsknew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4da419/32.png) [@devilsknew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/devilsknew)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2007, 7:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fork-you/415200/13 "2007-08-11T07:35:32Z")
Kind of reminds me of another timely happening and successful surgery. [The German pencil up her nose lady](http://www.usatoday.com/news/offbeat/2007-08-07-pencil-head_N.htm)