Monday
Nov162009
Episode 961
November 16, 2009 The GizWiz Toaster
Inspired by Michael Jackson's This Is It, Dick and Leo do the Toaster Dance, just without the giant catapult. Video thanks to the folks at odtv.me.
The Woon
Ken Ronckovitz of Ronkville, who learned never to delete a Daily Giz Wiz show (see Episode 844), has more to contribute to the Giz Wiz Compendium of Portmanteau Gadgets. Ken has found out that although the term Spork, a combination spoon and fork, was already in current usage by 1901, it was not patented until 1970 by Van Brode Milling Company. The "Woon" is the name given to the curved wooden spatula in the old days for your ice-cream, a wooden spoon.
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