Talk:3166: Big and Little Spoons

A spoon the size of a couch King Pando (talk) 03:16, 11 November 2025 (UTC)

Panel four evoked a genuine out-loud laugh when most of the time I usually only get chuckles. Still my favorite comic that's not about hornyness. 2603:800C:1200:596A:642C:F071:BB63:22A9 03:53, 11 November 2025 (UTC)

Should there be a sentence about how sets of measuring spoons are designed to nest? 138.229.156.169 04:51, 11 November 2025 (UTC)

Your wish is my command. Though I didn't know it was your wish, as it was also already mine on first viewing, and included thoughts about one-person easy-pack cutlery sets, etc, too, which... well, can also involve compatibly-nesting knorks, and the like, for a theoretical minimum of packing-space 2.98.65.8 11:51, 11 November 2025 (UTC)

What's with the Royal We in the last panel?--Coconut Galaxy (talk) 08:31, 11 November 2025 (UTC)

I believe it refers to the 'some brave truth-tellers', a set of which Cueball believes he is a member. --KarMann (talk) 11:23, 11 November 2025 (UTC)

Randall isn't the first webcomic creator to use this idea: [1] 88.85.135.155 08:53, 11 November 2025 (UTC)

A similar take on it was addressed in another medium in Mallrats. That was more about the arm problem than the relative sizes, though. --KarMann (talk) 11:27, 11 November 2025 (UTC)

"Big spoon" and "little spoon" are not necessarily supposed to be literal descriptions of the spoons referenced by the metaphor – almost like the transferred-epithet form of the hypallage trope in classical rhetoric, in which a descriptor that really applies to the speaker is instead applied to that which is described. "I lit a nervous cigarette." Cigarettes are not nervous – people are. While nesting spoons are of equal size, the enveloping action of the big-spoon role is larger – that which wraps something is larger than that which it wraps. A person taking a big-thing or little-thing role describes their metaphorical spoon as big or little, to imply their own bigness or littleness. Yorkshire Pudding (talk) 13:25, 11 November 2025 (UTC)

Aside from certain more trivial topological interpretations (and some more 'tricksy' ones), can I remind you of this? ;) 82.132.236.75 14:14, 11 November 2025 (UTC)

Spoons don't wrap or envelop, though. They spoon. 82.13.184.33 14:50, 11 November 2025 (UTC)