[TheForge] [OT] Re: Rocks (Was: Steel...flint sources?)

[Peter Fels And Phoebe Palmer]

Generates an image of a needle nosed sheep slurping it's way down 
a very long blade of grass only to find that when it reaches the 
root, that it can't bite it off and is thus anchored to the 
ground....pf

Ben Barrett wrote:
> I thought sheep, like other ruminants (or even, even-toed ungulates),
> had only upper teeth in front.... Bovids, more particularly... but I
> couldn't find
> confirmation of this on wikipedia:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bovidae
> 
> This is a very important detail, in that sheep & goats (among others) are
> not likely to be able to bite off your finger -- and also, if you 
> happened to
> be forging a sculpture of a bovid's mouth you don't need to forge so many
> teeth :)
> 
> ben
> 
> 
> On 4/19/07, Peter Fels And Phoebe Palmer <artgawk at thegrid.net> wrote:
>> And here i thought they were confused about how to raise elephants.
>> In maturity, such sheep only have one opposed pair of teeth in
>> front and can only consume a single blade of grass at a time.
>> Copralites preserved in the permafrost are often over a meter long.
>> Getting ready to the CBA spring conference in the rainy north.
>> Been making a couple of buckles out of the Wagner pure iron
>> sample...Sure amenable stuff to work with....pete f
>>
>> Mike Spencer wrote:
>> >> Rocks from other regions are or will shortly become
>> >> available and some are almost as nice as Genuine
>> >> Alaskan Rocks(r)
>> >
>> > Rocks be a major natural resource product in Nova Scotia.  Retail
>> > marketing of rocks is a recent development here.  Hitherto, rock sales
>> > were bulk or wholesale and it was called "real estate".  One kind of
>> > rock that *was* sold retail was the sort of fine, uniform sandstone
>> > from Joggins used to make them big, old-fashioned grindstones.  This
>> > was a very important element of agriculture as framers used them to
>> > grind their sheep's noses to a point so that, when put out to pasture,
>> > they could get at the grass between the stones.
>> >
>> > But I don't think we have any flint.  Rumor has it that the Devil
>> > swept through Nova Scotia and collected up what little flint there was
>> > and used it to make hearts for certain prominent 19th century families
>> > in New Brunswick and Newfoundland.  Can't even get them by grave
>> > robbery 'cause they pass them on from generation to generation.
>> >
>> >> When you get tired of one rock just mail it back and I'll send you
>> >> another of your choice.
>> >
>> > What's this about mail, Frosty?  I already sent you the suitcase
>> > handle.  Just lash it to a rock and get on the next eastbound
>> > Greyhound.  Or do I need to send you the twine, too?
>> >
>> >
>> > - Mike
>> > (Somewhere east of Alaska)
>> >
>>
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