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slipjig3The following is excerpted from The Lemmings Encyclopedia, the ongoing project to document life in Champaign-Urbana among the malcontents between roughly 1988 and 1995:
Fork call: The deliberate act of interrupting an amorous moment, usually by calling the romantic couple on the phone, yelling “Fork!” and hanging up. This practice’s earliest beginnings stemmed from a story told by Lauren Leach concerning Warren Tresivant, who once watched a sleeping friend sit up, yell “fork” for no apparent reason, and return to sleep. The first official fork call took place in autumn 1990, when Adam Fromm called his own ISR dorm room (Grand Central) from the building’s lobby for the sole purpose of yelling “Fork!” (in reference to the above story) to Lauren and Bryan Jonker, who were waiting for him. Unbeknownst to Adam, he called in time to interrupt a kiss between the two that had already been interrupted—not once, but twice—by separate calls from Tony Stuckey. Moments later, Adam had his own door slammed in his face, but the fork call practice caught on.
Later, the fork call evolved into the more subtle practice of taping a fork to someone’s front door. (Bryan had a continuous supply of stolen flatware from his job at the ISR cafeteria for this purpose.) The delivery of forks grew more and more complex over time, peaking with the appearance of a fork inside Lauren’s locked apartment mailbox. Bryan accomplished this with Lauren’s own mailbox key which Adam had secretly “borrowed,” but Lauren was baffled; before Bryan and Adam fessed up, she had decided that Amy Decker had figured out how to pick locks.
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Fork call: The deliberate act of interrupting an amorous moment, usually by calling the romantic couple on the phone, yelling “Fork!” and hanging up. This practice’s earliest beginnings stemmed from a story told by Lauren Leach concerning Warren Tresivant, who once watched a sleeping friend sit up, yell “fork” for no apparent reason, and return to sleep. The first official fork call took place in autumn 1990, when Adam Fromm called his own ISR dorm room (Grand Central) from the building’s lobby for the sole purpose of yelling “Fork!” (in reference to the above story) to Lauren and Bryan Jonker, who were waiting for him. Unbeknownst to Adam, he called in time to interrupt a kiss between the two that had already been interrupted—not once, but twice—by separate calls from Tony Stuckey. Moments later, Adam had his own door slammed in his face, but the fork call practice caught on.
Later, the fork call evolved into the more subtle practice of taping a fork to someone’s front door. (Bryan had a continuous supply of stolen flatware from his job at the ISR cafeteria for this purpose.) The delivery of forks grew more and more complex over time, peaking with the appearance of a fork inside Lauren’s locked apartment mailbox. Bryan accomplished this with Lauren’s own mailbox key which Adam had secretly “borrowed,” but Lauren was baffled; before Bryan and Adam fessed up, she had decided that Amy Decker had figured out how to pick locks.
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Date: 2007-07-29 08:38 am (UTC)