Conversation-stimulating crockery will liven up mealtime conversations this
Christmas, says Kaleidacolor of Nashville, Tennessee (WO 01/70354). It proposes
crockery and place mats decorated with 鈥渙pen-ended鈥 questions鈥攏o grunted
鈥測es鈥 or 鈥渘o鈥 answers allowed. Questions are revealed as you eat the food on
your plate, or perhaps by looking underneath your place mat. Diners,
Kaleidacolor suggests, will be confronted with conversational gambits like:
鈥淲hich relative makes you want to run for cover?鈥 or 鈥淲hat did you do to receive
the most memorable punishment of your life?鈥 We can鈥檛 wait.
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