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How true.

And of course there is the other direction.

Was it not Marco Polo who opened up the trade routes which, in the fullness of time, introduced the trivet to China?

Many is the caravan to have set off, heavy-laden with trivet-ware, only to return, many moons having waxed and waned in the weary interim, with pannier and casket and satchel brim-full of lapis lazuli, ivory, black wood, carnelian and sweetmeats from the bazaars of the East.

None of this would have happened without the essential currency of the ever-reliable trivet.

Talking of the East, I believe it was Sir Arthur Mullet-Hinshelwood who was the first man to cross Borneo with a trivet.

I could be wrong. It may have been Sir Jocelyn Whackstraw-Vane, though I am sure he was the one who navigated the Yangste in a coracle with only a mute Lascar as companion.

They say that Elon Musk has some sort of plan to do something with trivets.

That wouldn't be a surprise if he did.

Let us not forget the silver screen:

Trivets of Navarone
Two Trivets for Sister Sara
American Trivet
Die Hard: With A Trivet
Bring Me the Trivet of Alfredo Garcia
Rosemary's Trivet
All The President's Trivets
Cat on a Hot Tin Trivet
Trivets of New York
Gentlemen Prefer Trivets
Trivetspotting
Trivets of Desire

I was speaking today with a young man who had summitted Everest with his father, brother and sister.

According to him the legend of Mallory reaching the top of Everest before Hillary has some interesting evidence to support this claim.

Mallory promised to place a trivet in his vest pocket on the summit in honour of his wife. His body only recently found had no trivet on it.

Interestingly, the first company to manufacture trivets in the New World was the ACME Corporation. There is documentary evidence that a ACME built trivet was the weapon of choice used by Wile E. Coyote to whack the Roadrunner, even before the mighty anvil was invented by ACME. In fact, the Roadrunner cartoon featured the trivet as the anti-hero during the silent years of the cartoon (1949-1952). In 1952, sound effects were added. No one will ever forget hearing for the first time the law of gravity being used to demonstrate Wile E. Coyote's mastery of physics.

Too bad for trivet lovers that an anvil was chosen for this historic event.

Ah yes, the ACME trivet. First manufactured in Pinkerton, Pennsylvania, I believe.

Why there? It's as good a place as any.

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Quote: Erskin Quint

Ah yes, the ACME trivet. First manufactured in Pinkerton, Pennsylvania, I believe.

Why there? It's as good a place as any.

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Since "ACME" is a backronym, how did you get your bogus information?

Who said anything about information?

Anyway, trivets are so last season. You heard it here first.

I was thinking the same thing. What's next?

I was thinking the same thing. What's next?

Are special trivets made to protect trivets, a trivet protector of sorts?

Dominatrix trivets to drive under-performing trivets? What's next?

My wife protects her trivets with pots of hot food.

This is only a temporary measure however.

Perhaps a movie honoring trivets. How about, Saving Trivet Frying?

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Quote: victor nicholas

Are special trivets made to protect trivets, a trivet protector of sorts?

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How marvellous. Reminds me of the idea that the universe is carried on the back of a giant cosmic turtle.

"What's under the turtle?"

"You can't get me like that. I happen to know it's turtles all the way down."

So perhaps it's trivets all the way. Perhaps it's a matter of an infinite regress of trivets protecting trivets.

Trivets to the power of infinity.

In fact, there is nothing outside of trivets.

More to the point:

Outside of a book, a dog is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.