free4rms
freely admits to licking rocks
My little pet walrus
Member since January 2007
Posts: 839
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Post by free4rms on Dec 15, 2008 9:40:40 GMT -5
Well, we have now seen just how nice or (select one: mean, nasty, cruel, sadistic) our gift buyers can be! This was a hard winner to pick, but the one gift that tipped me over the edge was Adrian's "A very nice slab, with lots and lots of unstable cracks, having some cool cab shapes drawn across those cracks." It reminded me of something some con artist might sell on eBay, hah! So, congrats, Adrian. Send me your mailing adddress and I will get it in the mail to you. Today's prize is a crazy lace freeform I made awhile back. And, speaking of crazy, just how crazy do rockhounds and lapidaries have to be to get started down this road anyway? To win this prize, give me five reasons why someone would be crazy enough to go out in freezing rain to collect rocks, grind their fingers down to polish a rock, that sort of thing. There must be some insanity involved somewhere... Let's have some fun with this one! By the way, even though a member can only win one prize in this contest, don't let that stop you from sending in comments on the answers and that sort of thing. Let's keep the banter going! Just don't send in any actual quiz answers if you have already won once. Here is today's prize:  Good luck! Vance |
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CUL-Ann
spending too much on rocks
rock lover~
Member since September 2008
Posts: 380
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Post by CUL-Ann on Dec 15, 2008 9:59:57 GMT -5
I love crazy lace ;-)))
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Sabre52
Cave Dweller 
Me and my gal, Rosie
Member since August 2005
Posts: 20,494
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Post by Sabre52 on Dec 15, 2008 10:15:32 GMT -5
Dang, I must be bugass crazy cause all this time I done thunk I was normal *L*. I think all the folks who don't go out and hunt rocks are crazy! I have no idea how to answer this question. *scratching head*....Mel
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adrian65
Cave Dweller
Arch to golden memories and to great friends.
Member since February 2007
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Post by adrian65 on Dec 15, 2008 10:23:46 GMT -5
OH, I won! What a beautiful necklace! Thank you Vance for choosing me! Yes, that entry with the cab drawn across the crack ... it hapened to me, only I was the one who drew it! It was in the beginning of my cabbing, when I thought the polishing process wil hide the crack. What a surprise I had when I noticed the crack became more and more obvious  I send you a PM. Adrian |
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grayfingers
Cave Dweller
Member since November 2007
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Post by grayfingers on Dec 15, 2008 11:20:12 GMT -5
My five reasons why someone would be crazy enough to go out in freezing rain to collect rocks, grind their fingers down to polish a rock.
Rockhunting:
1. As a child I never had any "cool" marbles.
2. I have a recessive gene, 'huntera/gatherosium'.
3. I enjoy lower back pain, and like imitating Groucho Marx.
4. Multitasking; am simultaneously looking for a pocketknife I lost.
Grinding:
5. Trying to get rid of my fingerprints.
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Post by beefjello on Dec 15, 2008 11:52:04 GMT -5
Congrats Adrian! Man that's one sweet crazy cab there!  |
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Sabre52
Cave Dweller
Me and my gal, Rosie
Member since August 2005
Posts: 20,494
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Post by Sabre52 on Dec 15, 2008 12:34:46 GMT -5
*LMAO* Imitating Groucho Marx! I love that one. Being a tall feller myself, I find myself bending over a lot when hunting rocks. Never gave much thought to how I must appear to strangers. All I'd need is a ceeegar and I'd be a Groucho *L*....Mel
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Post by sbreed on Dec 15, 2008 13:00:41 GMT -5
This is an easy one!
1) because we are brain damaged
2) because we are on to much medication
3) because we are from a different planet
4) because we are married, or have been married
5) because we suck at everything else!
LMAO
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CUL-Ann
spending too much on rocks
rock lover~
Member since September 2008
Posts: 380
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Post by CUL-Ann on Dec 15, 2008 13:34:05 GMT -5
(1) I love gifts=The earth is giving us a gift and all we have to do to receive it is look and unwrap the cover.
(2)I'm fat, I have tryed everything else jims,curves,starving,machines ecc.
rock hounding gets me walking,climbing,bending,using weights,going without food(just a little ways more)ecc.
(3) I say it is so much fun but my hubby says we are just frickin idiots!!
(4) I see rocks / stones in my sleep;-))))
(5)Everyone thinks I'm crazy and I'm just confirming it!!!
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bwcachick
having dreams about rocks
Member since December 2008
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Post by bwcachick on Dec 15, 2008 14:14:05 GMT -5
Hunting:1)The excitment there is when we find a big one is hilariously rediculous 2)Sometimes you get to see the types of rocks better when its raining. 3)We get a good workout when our clothes are sopping wet and 10lbs heavier 4)Motto:"spend the summer collecting(no matter how wet & cold)and count 'my precious' during the freezing, snow covered winter" 5)If I don't do it somebody else will and " steals all my preciousss" LOL! (Lord of the Rings reference)Mwahahaha! ;D
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Post by rockrookie on Dec 15, 2008 16:33:27 GMT -5
beautiful cab !!!!
CONGRATS !!!!! Adrian , tied at 4 (it started slow but is ending big!!)
my reasons :
1- my daughters got me started 6 & 4 -you know dad will do anything for his little girls
2- hunter / gatherer instinct
3- never grew out of getting dirty
4- i don't drink
5- i love to take ruff rocks & make em shinny
i have to include a disclamer ----i am only ,barely 1 year into rock tumbling & i live in PA (not a real good rock hounding area . so i never did any real rock hounding . my going in to the elements was hunting for DEER !! thanks -----------paul
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Post by BuiltonRock on Dec 15, 2008 17:06:09 GMT -5
You might be a crazed rock-hound if:
You started out slightly cracked and have kept going until you're completely broke.
When grinding a cab you stop and ask it, "How does that make you feel?"
You've hunted rocks within the walls of a State institute for the criminally insane.
You say to yourself over and over all day long "Sometimes a rock is just a rock" "Sometimes a rock is just a rock" "Sometimes a rock is just a rock" "Sometimes a rock is just a rock"
You tried to hatch a Thunder egg!
;D
john
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Post by sitnwrap on Dec 15, 2008 18:37:21 GMT -5
1. Dad served me Coot when I was young.
Dads recipe for Coot. Go out and shoot a Coot, put pan of water on stove, throw in a rock and then the Coot in the pan of water. Boil for 10 mins, throw out the water and the Coot . Then eat the rock. (Coot, type of duck, is very tough and you're better off eating the rock.)
got my first taste of rock at an early age.
2. Rockhounds were conceived on a bed of rocks and during this, rocklove occured through osmosis
3. The rock love is imprinted so deep in the brain, you will follow the rock through ice and snow, sleet and rain. MOMMMMMMYYYYYY WAIT FOR MEEEEEE!
4 There is a secret on/off pain switch in the body and only rockhounders know where it is. However, the on/off switch has an automatic timer so when the fingers go numb, you hear a loud beep, beep, beep in your head. Some rockhounders think it is voices and haven't yet figured out it's the secret on/off switch. They are the ones where rocklove osmosis did not occur during time of conception.
5. The automatic switch was installed for the sole purpose of letting you know that your fingers are numb and therefore the best time to start grinding the rocks you found.
That is the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth so help me Goethite!
This is normal, the insanity is giving up that Crazy Lace ;D
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Post by Bejewelme on Dec 15, 2008 18:38:17 GMT -5
Well this should be easy to think about since I went rockhounding for the first time yesterday, in freezing cold weather sticking my fingers in a cold stream.
1. Well you are sure that you are going to find another Hope diamond buried in your local dirt, so you can quit your job and stay home and cab all day.
2. You are hoping to find material so unique and different that it will be named after you, oh it already was.....Amber...........bug resin, how lovely!!!
3. You want to seem interesting and worldy so instead of telling everyone you sat home on your arse and watched TV, you seem to portray that you have an interesting and artistic life.
4. You want to collect material to send to all your kind RTH friends in other parts of the US and world, because they are like a second family, and it is fun to share.
5. Finally you want to grind your fingers and red nails to the bone, to post a picture of crazy lace agate, that biker randy says is the best he ever saw, so you can feel like a cab queen for the day, until the next time you cab and it cracks and brings you crashing back to reality.
Amber
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SteveHolmes
fully equipped rock polisher
Member since July 2009
Posts: 1,900
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Post by SteveHolmes on Dec 15, 2008 20:46:19 GMT -5
This is a really fun contest you have going on Vance. THANKS and Congratz to the past winners! I think my rockhounding days started when I was probably around6 or 7. True story here. As a kid..I would sit behind our trailer and get those little white landscaping rocks out of the flower beds. I would then proceed to tap my teeth with the small rock until I had one tooth loose. It would usually take one or two taps..and it was only when I needed some tooth fairy money. So.... #1 it was a childhood obsession. Pain wasn't an issue...which is #2 pain isn't an issue...it's the.. #3 reward at the end of the dark and insane passion that we put ourselves through. #4 Rocks are our friends. They don't talk back to us, they like to be held and talked to. I LOVE MY ROCKS! #5 I think it's easy enough to say...Dirt for Brain Cells. Steve I don't even know what I wrote..   |
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Rogue Trader
freely admits to licking rocks
"Don't cry because you are leaving, smile because you were there."
Member since December 2008
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Post by Rogue Trader on Dec 15, 2008 21:00:55 GMT -5
My 5 reasons are:
1. I kept getting blasted for sticking Ice Cream Cones on my forehead so now I lick rocks and stones instead.
2. I like to stuff so many stones in my pockets that they look like hamster cheeks and my butt cheeks peek out my jeans because they are weighted down so much.
3. I must be crazy because I know I can only lift 120lbs but always try to cart away 220lbs
4. I love the feel of cold wet gritty jeans chaffing against my thighs.
5. As part of my campaign to stop pharmacutical companies testing their drugs on animals I go out and get as many colds as possible so they can test their new drugs on me.
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