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To: Bill/WA who wrote (28716)	3/21/2004 8:12:13 PM
From: E. Charters	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 39344

There is one way to differentiate rock from dog turds in the far north. The rock is softer. When you go south the situation reverses. If you are interested in what kind of turd you have, it is usually done by shape and content. Steaming flat hunks with blueberries in it, is from the bear that is stalking you. Hairy loose logs are from the wolf whose rabbit/mouse dinner you just disturbed. Large woody ovoids are from the meese herd you just stampeded. Small woody round turds are rabbit. Tiny pellets are partridge. If the turds taste good, it is time to get back to town for a while. If you look around and you see that the turd slopes away from your neck for about 5 feet in every direction, you just fell in an elephant dropping. You are too far south. If you are interested in differentiating what kind of rocks you have collected there are several different psychoses you may have acquired from imbibing too much absinthe, or other diversions. 1. you may have become a geologist. The cure is unknown. 2. you may become a rock collector, or lapidarist. Lapidarists herd Reindeer in Finland when they are home. Strange breed. Cure is irrelevant. 3. you may think the rocks are valuable or important due to SI-Obsession. This is the "promotion of the trivial to first rank" psychoses. It is a form of deflectance or aversion behaviour. It comes from trying to avoid unpleasant realities in life, i.e. you owe a lot of alimony, your job is boring, etc.. Rock is just rock. It holds the planet together, but other than that it is of no importance. It has no relation to metals contained within it in any way, no matter what the delusion of pseudo-scientfic artsies calling themselves geologists to the contrary. EC<:-}