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

[Stephen Viola]

Well put Frosty!

Stephen

On 24/04/07, Jerry Frost <frosty at customcpu.com> wrote:
> You always have such . . . Interesting imagery Pete.
>
> Ruminents have top and bottom incisers and if they were
> so inclined could indeed take fingers off.
>
> Frosty
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>
> > 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
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