Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Pastimes : Don't Ask Rambi -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Gauguin who wrote (21087)	4/9/1999 3:08:00 PM
From: Thomas C. White	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 71178

Pea gravel is cheap. It's also the lowest "energy-content" material on earth. Well, after such a bold thrust into the dialectic of materials, I should be hard pressed to question your line of logic. Pea gravel it is then! Pea-gravel. America's neglected material. Unfortunately, though, the largest pea-gravel mines are to be found in the Mandalay area of Burma. Where many thousands of pea-gravel miners are enslaved, some going down into the depths of pea-gravel shafts, never again to see the light of day. Breathing toxic levels of choking pea-gravel dust, braving the ever imminent threat of pea-gravel instantaneous combustion. Care would have to be taken to assure that Burmese pea gravel does not find its way into the U.S. supply chain, what with human rights considerations.

To: Gauguin who wrote (21087)	4/9/1999 3:08:00 PM
From: epicure	Respond to of 71178

Gaugie have you gone into the pea gravel business?

To: Gauguin who wrote (21087)	4/9/1999 3:11:00 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 71178

Pea-gravel. Sounds good to me. Don't know what it costs to ship it from there to here, do you? Or maybe, where there is?

To: Gauguin who wrote (21087)	4/10/1999 12:10:00 AM
From: BlueCrab	Respond to of 71178

>>There are always little gem rocks to pull out and set on some surface. Then you take them in the house, or throw them back. Some people are not as discerning pea gravel pickers as others.<< The least discerning become geologists. Geologists are the kids who, at the end of an environmental field trip, collapse under the stuff they "just picked up" along the way. And IMO the best pea gravel in the known universe lies on the southeastern shores of Lake Superior. It ain't called "Superior" fer nuthin', ya know...