On Mon 15 May 2006 01:50:32p, Thus Spake Zarathustra, or was it Dee
Randall?

>
> "Wayne Boatwright" <wayneboatwright_at_gmail.com> wrote in message
> 28.19...
>> On Mon 15 May 2006 11:51:21a, Thus Spake Zarathustra, or was it Dee
>> Randall?
>>
>>>
>>> "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? :-)
>
> So darned funny!!!! I need a laugh today.
> Our umpeenth estimate for heat pump today -- 2 hours dropped again -- so
> far no written-up contracts. Do they think we've lost our marbles??
>>
>> 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.
>> >
>> Wayne Boatwright
>
> I'll bet those were treasured possessions of grandfather's. I just went
> upstairs to look for the container of marbles that DH brought home --
> don't know whose they were -- can't find them now, but I think I'm going
> to take a picture of them to put with our other thingies passed down.
> What became of your grandfather's marbles? Do you know?
> Dee Dee

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