Spatula Ponderings

"What is this?""What about this?""Now, this one?""What do we call this thing?""How about this one?!" Is it just me or are half of all kitchen utensils called Spatulas? What is that all about!? How many different items are so unimportant they all get the same name. What someone just spent? "Okay, were almost done here today, lets see.... we'll call this a bowl, that thing over there a knife. But