Do YOU Have the Gift of... Tongs?

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RodB651

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But I prefer the metal tip tongs on the grill.

"Hold on loosely, but don't let go..
If you cling too tightly, you gonna lose control..."
 

Lynx

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You’re not wrong. Some of us may remember the old Kung Fu TV show… there was an enemy clan of assassins known as the Tong.
And in vampire: bloodlines, a video game, tong was a rival gang the main character had to take down.

"Welcome to Tseng's herbal remedies. I am Tseng."

"I need a remedy for a tong problem."

"Have you tried diplomacy?"

"Didn't work. Got anything else?"

(Tseng pushes a hidden button and the herbal remedy racks spin around to reveal guns.)

"Tseng have remedy for all kind problems. Cash only. No credit cards."

Man I loved the dialogue in that game.
 

Mem

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Mui Tai Tong
Po

...makes me think of my handsome uncle Tete, who wrestled a python, chopped its head off...and made soup

and also taught me how to dance
 
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The main reason I got the last pair of tongs I purchased was to have them on hand so that I could pick up scorpions while keeping distance from the stinger in their tail.
Lol!

@GaryA, you definitely win the prize for most original use of tongs mentioned in this thread! 🏆

May I ask, what circumstances that put you in contact with scorpions? Did you live in an area in which they were common?
 
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I got gifted a pair ages ago, they have a special purpose, to keep company to all the other (rarely used) utensils in their very own section of the drawer.

Now that I wrote this message and took a look inside the drawer.. I found out that I do not have the gift of tongs, they are more of a huge flimsy plastic tweezers, not that practical. That explains their purpose.

If I would have the gift, I would use them for picking eggs from boiling water if I needed both soft boiled eggs and hard boiled ones too.
And if they would be sturdy enough, I would pick ramekins from the oven on a tray full of hot water, when making créme caramel or something like that. Now I just take the whole tray out and hope not to spill any water.
 
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The main reason I got the last pair of tongs I purchased was to have them on hand so that I could pick up scorpions while keeping distance from the stinger in their tail.
For me they would have to be a really long tongs for me to even try that.. Luckily, the only "scorpion"
I have ever seen is a chelifer.
 

GaryA

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Lol!

@GaryA, you definitely win the prize for most original use of tongs mentioned in this thread! 🏆

May I ask, what circumstances that put you in contact with scorpions? Did you live in an area in which they were common?
Yes - "common enough" - whereas, you have to be careful lest you step on one or put your hand on one.

However, God protected me from ever getting stung by one - and, I am grateful...
 

GaryA

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Tazzo

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@GaryA still too short for me :LOL: but I am a chicken when it comes to poisonous animals..

Oh! I do have tongs! I have similar looking ones, those scissor versions, at summer cottage for barbecue. Still manage to drop most of the food with those, so I am not worthy of them. :LOL: