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Have you had your marble today?
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 |
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Have you had your marble today?
"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 |
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Have you had your marble today?
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? :-) 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 __________________________________________________ ___________ "How can a nation be great if it's bread taste like Kleenex?" Julia Child |
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Have you had your marble today?
Wayne Boatwright <wayneboatwright_at_gmail.com> wrote in
28.19: > 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, Not quite your "MIB" marbles!!!  )) You HAVE seen the movie I hope?Still cool of your grandfather. Where did they go? Andy |
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On Mon 15 May 2006 01:19:21p, Thus Spake Zarathustra, or was it Andy?
> Wayne Boatwright <wayneboatwright_at_gmail.com> wrote in > 28.19: > >> 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, > > Not quite your "MIB" marbles!!! )) You HAVE seen the movie I hope?Uh, no, can't say that I have.:-( > Still cool of your grandfather. Where did they go? > > Andy > He left them to my uncle, his own son, who still has them. -- Wayne Boatwright __________________________________________________ ___________ "How can a nation be great if it's bread taste like Kleenex?" Julia Child |
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He left them to my uncle, his own son, who still has them. RATS!!! Andy |
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Have you had your marble today?
"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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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 It's often "whatever the traffic will bear". :-( -- Wayne Boatwright __________________________________________________ ___________ "How can a nation be great if it's bread taste like Kleenex?" Julia Child |
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"Dee Randall" > wrote in
: > > "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 Dee Dee, I'm working on it. Gramma told me (in my youth) "You gotta eat a pound of dirt before you die!" Her way of saying you'll never get sparkling clean food most of the time. That or don't complain?!? Andy |
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