SPOOOOOOOOOON!

I bought a spoon at auction, yesterday. I don't ordinarily do flatware. I just saw it and decided I wanted it. It cost me a dollar -- as long as I took something else with it (a Victorian glass locket for a lock of a loved one's hair).

The thing was, the ship looked interesting, and the spoon looked as though it hadn't been through hell and high water, the way so many of these things at auction get. So I brought it home, and this is what I found out about the ship, the RMS Majestic: it only floated under that name from 1922 until 1934, and it was a bone of contention between the German workers who built it and the British cruise line which, after WWI, received it as spoils of war. Hmmmph.

Over the years, the great vessel received the nickname "Magic Stick," and was, for a while out of New York Harbor, reputed to be a "booze cruise" during the years of prohibition, running three-day cruises for the sole purpose of allowing Americans to drink themselves silly without breaking the law.

So here is my magic spoon from the "Magic Stick."


(with regards, to the writers of The Tick, who not only had the best battle cry, but the coolest theme song. And the grossest episode in the history of kids' stuff.)