Why is it?
 

That when digging potatoes, the fork always goes right through the best
ones?

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alan

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Alan Holmes wrote:
That when digging potatoes, the fork always goes right through the best
ones?

Skill. Raw, native, talent.

"Alan Holmes" wrote

That when digging potatoes, the fork always goes right through the best
ones?

The bigger the spud the bigger the chance of forking it.

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Regards
Bob
In Runnymede, 17 miles West of London

Alan Holmes wrote:
:: That when digging potatoes, the fork always goes right through the
:: best ones?
::
I don't know, maybe it's the same thing when you intend to take the 'just
the best 20' seedlings for repotting and end up with 47?



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"Alan Holmes" wrote in message
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That when digging potatoes, the fork always goes right through the
best
ones?

Because you do not gently fork far enough away from the potatoes.

Regards,
Emrys Davies.

On Sun, 10 Apr 2005, Alan Holmes wrote:

That when digging potatoes, the fork always goes right through the best
ones?

Murphy's Law!

(Come on, you were setting us up for that one!)

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David Rance http://www.mesnil.demon.co.uk
Fido Address: 2:252/110 writing from Caversham, Reading, UK

On Sun, 10 Apr 2005 21:31:30 GMT, "Alan Holmes"
wrote:

That when digging potatoes, the fork always goes right through the best
ones?

Hey, Alan, that happens to me too!

Pam in Bristol

Pam Moore wrote:
On Sun, 10 Apr 2005 21:31:30 GMT, "Alan Holmes"
wrote:

That when digging potatoes, the fork always goes right through the
best
ones?

Hey, Alan, that happens to me too!

There's a traditional Scottish tattie-howking tool which reduces the
chance of damage: if I remember aright, it has only two prongs, and
they're blunt. The head is at a right-angle to the short handle, and
you use it kneeling down (ouch!)

But there's also a special potato fork with flat blunt tines which you
use standing up. I think my parents had one, and they must still be
around...yep, here's the first Ggl specimen:
http://www.tool-up.co.uk/shop/diy/S/J1650SN.html

Not exactly the same as the one I remember, but an excellent make.

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Mike.

On this great day..11 Apr 2005 02:53:37 -0700, "Mike Lyle"
wrote:

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But there's also a special potato fork with flat blunt tines which you
use standing up. I think my parents had one, and they must still be
around...yep, here's the first Ggl specimen:
http://www.tool-up.co.uk/shop/diy/S/J1650SN.html

/snipped

In Cheshire it was known as a "sippit" fork. The endsof the tines
were/are bulbous

Mike

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