2005feb25. I’m slowly grinding through the Ask Metafilter archives. I ran into this howler on a thread about celebrities:
My brother has seen Roger Ebert three times. The first time, he walked up to Ebert and said, simply, “spoon,” flashing a spoon at him, and then walked off. Two years later, having planned things out, he approached him and said “fork,” this time presenting a fork. Two years after that, he approached him, reached into his pocket, opened his mouth, and then closed his mouth and walked off.