AgateHeaven
starting to spend too much on rocks
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Post by AgateHeaven on Dec 3, 2007 22:28:51 GMT -5
Ok, Im known for gettin the sillies...but fellow rock hound and friend was picking through my dontknowites box. She said that if you stick your tongue to a suspected fossilized bone it will stick. Is she messing with me or is this true? lol I love a good joke but I dont want to appear totally clueless <haha> besides I need fact to back me up if I get caught lickin a rock...giggle
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Sabre52
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Post by Sabre52 on Dec 3, 2007 22:44:54 GMT -5
Spitter and squirter here. Too many animals pee on the rocks for me to do licking. Never heard that story and don't know from a scientific standpoint why that would be unless the bones were maybe calcified which might make them dry out your tongue and stick to it. I'd think silicifed bone would be just like if you licked and agate or jasper. Except of course, for the taste of blood and guts *W*....Mel
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Post by docone31 on Dec 3, 2007 23:13:50 GMT -5
The part your friend left out, was, you have to freeze the bejeebers out of the stone before you stick your tongue to it. Makes me remember way back when, when I took a dare and got my tongue stuck to the swing set in grammer school. They actually had to pour hot water on my tongue to get it off. I did not just touch the steel pipe, I laid my tongue on it and held it there. I went to pull it off and no go Charlie! It hurts to pull a tongue off a swing set. It hurts in a very large way when it is -20 and some dumb kid lays his tongue on it just for a dare. If you really freeze the stone, you can probably hang it from your tongue untill it drops off. Might be cool. Just like freezing flies in ice cubes. Pop em into a drink and in a few minutes the ice will melt enough to free the fly. Sometimes they fly off. If the person with the drink is drunk enough, it makes their whole day.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 3, 2007 23:57:26 GMT -5
Im a rock licker myself. Spitting or squirting just doesnt do it for me. I dont lick rocks that have obvious gross stuff on them though.
And dont worry if you get rocks from me, I wash them before I send them lol
Shannon
PS-Doc you are too funny, I always look forward to reading your posts.
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Post by snowdog on Dec 4, 2007 0:58:01 GMT -5
I've heard of this too ---only place I've seen it done was in a desert area where the bone fragments were really dried out --they were more porus than the rocks and would absorb the moisture to make them "sticky" where the rocks wouldn't -- that was a quick way of telling if it was bone or not out in the field ----------
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Post by rocklicker on Dec 4, 2007 4:01:18 GMT -5
Hmm, rocklicking? I'm sorry but I don't know anything about that ;D Steve
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Post by Tonyterner on Dec 4, 2007 10:23:41 GMT -5
Never heard of that one. Doc I think Hollywood stole your story for the movie "A Christmas Story" LOL
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181lizard
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Post by 181lizard on Dec 4, 2007 14:38:43 GMT -5
Doc & Agateheaven...DO NOT FALL FOR THIS! The electricals hatched this diabolical plan of attack on us stupid humans to obtain another method with which they can enter our brains. One lick...that's all it takes & they sublingually enter our bloodstream & from there, it's just a hop, skip & a jump to our brains.
Uhhhhh....Shannon? I politely ask that, should we be able to go to Richardsons a few months from now, please have your doctor do an MRI on your brain & forward it on to me. Thank you.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 4, 2007 14:44:06 GMT -5
Liz, LOL, its already been done. They say there is no hope for me. I just dont understand you spitters and squirters. I mean, when you look at a rock and you KNOW that there are beautiful colors and patterns that will be revealed when you get them wet, you dont have even a teensy little desire to lick it? I just dont get it. Its truly an addiction for me. And I KNOW Im not the only one!!! I think. Shannon
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Post by bobby1 on Dec 4, 2007 14:53:27 GMT -5
This "stick your tongue on it" method works to tell natural, untreated turquoise from the stabilized stuff. Obviously the porosity of the natural is sealed when turquoise is stabilized with resin as most has been done for many years now. Shannon, How do you "wet your whistle" so to speak in order to keep your tongue wet enough? (beer works). Another lavish rocklicker. Bob
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Post by akansan on Dec 4, 2007 16:31:14 GMT -5
Shannon - that's why the made water bottles and spit. Trust me, I can get a rock plenty wet when I want to!
I found myself crossing the line to licker while at WWR last year. And guess what - the rock tasted like dirt. After that I made sure my water bottle was full at all times. ;D
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Post by bobby1 on Dec 4, 2007 16:32:38 GMT -5
And dirt tastes all that bad? ? Bob
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karenfh
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Post by karenfh on Dec 4, 2007 20:10:54 GMT -5
;D What a hoot; I am picturing everyone w/frozen rocks hanging from their tongues, going "Ah can he ih auw(f)". My brothers and I can attest to "I can't get it off!". One year, when we were small and had great and wonderful ideas, and very long icicles hanging from the eaves..... Long story short, Mom had 3 kids with big icicles hanging from their tongues, procured on the way to the car to go to church. We were late to church, and had wet fronts (from the water she poured over the tongues and icicles) and sore tongues, and a mom who nearly peed her pants laughing at her 'gifted' children. Dad just sat in the car, shaking his head and honking the horn. (He grew up in Texas, they didn't have icicles.) I no longer lick very cold rocks, icicles, swingsets....
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Post by Deleted on Dec 5, 2007 0:43:35 GMT -5
Bob, I was going to say the same thing LOL. I dunno, dirt kinda tastes good in my opinion. Now, the grit in your teeth isnt quite so fun though. If a rock has a lot of dirt on it, I wipe it off on my pants and then lick it. Shannon
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Post by rocklicker on Dec 5, 2007 0:52:47 GMT -5
Yeah, I like the taste of dirt. It really is all about using all your senses. As in trying to have the whole rockhounding experience! Nothing wrong with a little grit in your teeth if it means checking out a cool rock. Steve
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Post by Deleted on Dec 5, 2007 13:47:25 GMT -5
Steve, You is my kind of people. Shannon
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Post by LCARS on Dec 5, 2007 20:56:27 GMT -5
This must have been you as a kid then eh Doc... (arguably the best Christmas classic of all time) ;D
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one80mike
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Post by one80mike on Dec 5, 2007 23:31:54 GMT -5
As I do a lot of my collecting at a farm with a whole stack of cattle roaming about and a piggery that sits right in the middle of a field of carnelian and jasper, I have a rule...not licking while rock hunting! Spitting or squirting only.
Once the rock is home and has been scrubbed clean...that's a different story.
Mike
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