On Mon 15 May 2006 11:51:21a, Thus Spake Zarathustra, or was it Dee
Randall?

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> "Andy" <q> wrote in message ...
>>I watched an episode of Modern Marvels on the hisory channel all about
>> marble. Mining, cutting, carving, everything you'd ever want to know
>> about marble.
>>
>> One annecdote from a marble company spokesman said when you take an
>> antacid pill, you're eating marble. Calcium carbonate! I thought WHAT?
>> But it's true.
>>
>> Sea shells (a limestone of a sort) and almost entirely calcium
>> carbonate collected to form marble over thousands of years.
>>
>> So when you take a calcium supplement or need a Tums to neutralic
>> stomach acid, you're eating marble dust!
>>
>> Visit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calcium_carbonate and click on the
>> Uses link.
>>
>> Who'da thunk!
>>
>> Andy
>>
> Go eat dirt, Andy.
> Dee Dee

Have you lost your marble, Dee? :-)

Speaking of "marbles"... My grandfather never had glass marbles to play
with as a child. He had a leather pouch full of various colored "marbles"
made from real marble. He would let me play with them when I was a kid.

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Wayne Boatwright
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