"the little dog laughed..."

...and the dish ran away with the spoon!

"Running with Cutlery"

A more soulful tale of tableware unfolds in “The Adventures of the Dish and the Spoon.” Mini Grey...spins a stylish tale of escapades that follow the nursery rhyme “Hey Diddle Diddle,” after the Dish and the Spoon run away together. “I didn’t know where we were going, and I didn’t care,” recalls the Spoon, who tells the story. “I knew the Dish would take us there.” The intrepid travelers leave home, their spirits kindled by strains of “Hey Diddle Diddle” on the record player. They cross a moonlit ocean, bound for Depression-era New York City. Though they find quick celebrity performing as acrobats in a vaudeville show, the Spoon laments, “The Dish got a taste for the high life.” The Dish dolls herself up with feathers and furs; the Spoon takes the helm of their new Rolls-Royce in a dapper scarf and goggles.

Their luck doesn’t last. When money gets tight, they turn to “a gang of sharp and shady characters” — including a thuggish serrated knife — for a loan, which they can’t repay. Fearing for their lives, they attempt a Bonnie and Clyde-style bank robbery that fails miserably. The Dish shatters during their botched escape, and the Spoon gets thrown in the slammer; the partners in crime are tragically parted.

Twenty-five years later, the Spoon has served his time. He wanders into a junk shop, dispirited and lonely. There he finds the Dish, who weeps, “Don’t look at me, Spoon. ... I am old and cracked, and my glaze is crazed.” But the starry-eyed Spoon is delighted. Someone cues up “Hey Diddle Diddle” on the record player, and he asks, “Can you remember the old tricks, Dish? ... There’s a whole new world out there. People who have never seen dishes do tricks with spoons.” And so they’re off again, running for a shot at redemption.

I also like the part of the article about "The Runaway Dinner," particularly the sausage named Melvin and Billy, the boiled egg. :D

Heheheheheh. Okay. I'm easily amused. :D :D :D