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People and fictional characters

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Spooner (surname) Spooner is a surname. It may refer to: * The Spooners of Porthmadog, a family of railway engineers, among them Charles Edwin Spooner A * Archibald Spooner (1886–1965), English cricketer * Arthur Spooner (painter) (1873–1962), English paint ...
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Spooner Oldham Dewey "Spooner" Lindon Oldham Jr. (born June 14, 1943) is an American songwriter and session musician. An organist, he recorded in Muscle Shoals, Alabama, at FAME Studios as part of the Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section on such hit R&B songs as Percy ...
(born 1943), American songwriter and musician


Places

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Spooner, Wisconsin Spooner is a city in Washburn County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 2,573 at the 2020 census. The city is located mostly within the southwest corner of the Town of Spooner, with a small portion extending into the Town of Beaver ...
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Spooner (town), Wisconsin Spooner is a town in Washburn County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 677 at the 2000 census. The City of Spooner is located mostly within the southwest corner of the town. Geography According to the United States Census Bureau, t ...
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Spooner Bay Spooner Bay is a 6-mile-wide bay on the coast of Enderby Land, lying 12 miles east of Freeth Bay in Alasheyev Bight. Plotted from air photos taken by Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions The Australian National Antarctic Research ...
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Spooner Lake Spooner Lake is a man-made reservoir located just north of the intersection of U.S. Route 50, Highway 50 and Nevada State Route 28, Highway 28 near Spooner Summit, a pass in the Carson Range of the Sierra Nevada (U.S.), Sierra Nevada leading to Ca ...
, a reservoir on North Canyon Creek in Nevada *
Spooner Row Spooner Row is a small village and civil parish in the English county of Norfolk. It is situated some south-west of the town of Wymondham and south-west of the city of Norwich. The village was within the civil parish of Wymondham before sepa ...
, a village in Norfolk, England *
Spooner Summit Spooner Summit is a mountain pass through the Carson Range, linking the Lake Tahoe Area to Carson City via US 50. The highest point of the pass is located just east of Spooner Lake just before the first set of curves when traveling eastboun ...
, a mountain pass through the Sierra Nevada's Carson Range spur *
Spooner Township, Lake of the Woods County, Minnesota Spooner Township is a township in Lake of the Woods County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 281 at the 2000 census. History The township was named for Marshall Spooner, a state judge. Spooner was largely destroyed in the Baudette ...


Entertainment

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Spooner (band) Spooner was an American rock band formed in 1974 in Madison, Wisconsin, by keyboardist/vocalist Doug Erikson, songwriter/guitarist/vocalist Bob Olsen, and guitarist/vocalist Dave Benton originally as an acoustic/electric trio. Between 1975 and ...
, an American midwestern rock band * ''Spooner'', a 1989 US made-for-TV movie starring
Robert Urich Robert Michael Urich (December 19, 1946 – April 16, 2002) was an American film, television, and stage actor and television producer. Over the course of his 30-year career, he starred in a record 15 television series. Urich began his car ...
* ''Spooner'', a 2009 American movie directed by
Drake Doremus Drake Doremus (; born March 29, 1983) is an American film director, screenwriter and producer best known for directing the films ''Like Crazy'' (2011), which won the Grand Jury Prize Dramatic at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival, ''Douchebag (film) ...


Other uses

* Another name for a spoon tray *
Spooner (colloquial) The English language expression silver spoon is synonymous with wealth, especially inherited wealth; someone born into a wealthy family is said to have "been born with a silver spoon in their mouth". As an adjective, "silver spoon" describes som ...
, Australian slang term


See also

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Spooner Act The First Spooner Act of 1902 (also referred to as the Panama Canal Act, 32 Stat. 481) was written by a United States senator from Wisconsin, John Coit Spooner, enacted on June 28, 1902, and signed by President Roosevelt the following day. It a ...
of 1902, authored by John Coit Spooner and authorizing President Theodore Roosevelt to purchase rights to build the Panama Canal {{disambiguation, geo