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obligatory Marx_brothers (“Horse Feathers”)…
Wagstaff: [Hangs up phone. Baravelli and Pinky arrive carrying blocks of ice. They deposit them in the wall safe] That’s a fine way to carry ice! Where are your tongs? [Baravelli and Pinky stick their tongues out] Looks like a tong war.
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=713743906 Marc Caldwell

That’s horrifying to imagine, specially when including non-human tongues…
- Antinous / Moderator
  
  A forked tongue would probably be more efficient and less slobbery.
http://www.youtube.com/user/Freethinkersanon Christopher

So what do are you supposed to use to lift the cover?
- http://www.facebook.com/postelwait Cameron Postelwait
  
  probably tongs.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Robert-Drop/100000929402049 Robert Drop

I’m embarrassed how long it took me to understand what they were getting at. I first wondered if it was some sort of joke, responding to some health department complaint by being sarcastic…
Warren_Terra

Maybe they thought it was an anglophilic spelling of “tongs” – much as the American English word “homolog” is spelled “homologue” in the Queen’s English.
- Antinous / Moderator
  
  Uh, some of us here in the US still use -ogue endings. As far as I know, it’s still considered standard English, even here.
  - Warren_Terra
    
    I resort to the unquestionable authority of some random contributor to Wikipedia! Beat that!
    
    (Less snarkily, I was taught that “homologue”, “pedagogue”, etcetera were the British-variant spellings. Although I may have been taught incorrectly).
    - Antinous / Moderator
      
      News to me, but I still use the subjunctive, prepositions and past participles like ‘stricken’.
voiceinthedistance

What is this gibberish, are they speaking in tongs?
dragonfrog

“Please wash your tongue before taking cookies”
http://www.beaucomeaux.com bocomo

joke signage? put there by customer?
- Warren_Terra
  
  Heaven knows, such does happen.
secretdoubleagent

In an unfunny vein, it’s my understanding that the use of tongs actually increases chances of spreading communicable disease, since multiple people will handle them, whereas (assuming some jerk doesn’t go pawing around the cookie jar) customers are more likely to only handle the cookie they’re taking if they use their hands.
- Warren_Terra
  
  Not a bad point, but if you’ll notice, the consumer of cookies must lift the lid from the tray. Any germs liable to be transferred to the handle of the tongs would likely first be transferred to the lid handle (assuming no infectious agents on one hand holding the tongs that aren’t also on the other hand holding the lid), and would be picked up by the customer whether they touched the tongs or no.
- Antinous / Moderator
  
  Thus, pickups.
  - voiceinthedistance
    
    At least the midgets will be free from the spread of germs.
- http://www.nathanhornby.com/ Nathan Hornby
  
  It’s mad isn’t it? The sign should just say ‘don’t paw at the food’.
CLamb

You lick it you bought it.