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Post by stevebarr on Oct 20, 2006 15:00:45 GMT -5
For anyone who doubts John's involvement in what has come to be known as the "Infamous Roosevelt Nose Incident", check out this photograph. This National Park surveillance photo was recently attained under the Freedom of Information Act, and they managed to capture the entire thing on film. He can deny it all he wants, pictures don't lie.
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Post by jimolson on Oct 20, 2006 15:03:48 GMT -5
No, really the president sneezed!!!!
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Post by jewelonly on Oct 20, 2006 15:09:28 GMT -5
pictures don't lie.
..well, not always anyway. (laughing)
Leah
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Post by stevebarr on Oct 20, 2006 18:01:18 GMT -5
Uh-oh! More trouble at Mount Rushmore. The Federal Bureau of Investigation has just issued an all-points bulletin, seeking the unknown rockhound in this photograph for questioning concerning illegal rock work done on national land and defacement of a national monument. Anyone knowing of this man's whereabouts should immediately contact their local F.B.I. office or law enforcement agency. Do not attempt to apprehend him. He is considered armed and dangerous. He was last seen carrying a huge sledgehammer and several large rocks.
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Post by stevebarr on Oct 20, 2006 18:21:50 GMT -5
Okay, Jim...okay....it's time we returned this post to its original theme....so here goes..... You know you're a rockhound if: You have a framed photograph of your favorite Diamond Hill specimen on your desk at work, instead of a family portrait.
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Post by geodepat on Oct 20, 2006 19:27:44 GMT -5
:oSteve, your desk is not that clean.
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Post by JohnD on Oct 21, 2006 8:05:03 GMT -5
Steve, when I attended the School of Mines in Rapid City in the late 40's and early 50's several of us did spend some time climbing over, under and around the heads. It was frowned on back then, but not the way it is now. I don't remember standing on that specific spot and I didn't wear sun glasses at that time
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Post by stevebarr on Oct 22, 2006 0:24:10 GMT -5
Pat is right. My desk is not that clean. In fact, I haven't seen the top of it in about two and a half years. It's covered with rocks, but that's just so it will match my living room, dining room and kitchen decor.
Rick - I ran into Colorado at the Glendon dig. He didn't even know he was a wanted man. He claims the rockwork he did at Mount Rushmore was just part of a national parks beautification project. I guess beauty is in the eye of the beholder....
John - Stop fibbing. Everybody knows people in the mob always wear sunglasses. Oops. I wasn't supposed to tell anybody about that either, was I?
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Post by JohnD on Oct 22, 2006 7:17:02 GMT -5
Darn Steve, stop telling all my secrets or I'll start on yours
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Post by stevebarr on Oct 22, 2006 11:26:57 GMT -5
John,
I'm sorry if I accidentally "spilled the beans". Don't worry, though, I won't tell anybody any more of your secrets. I promise to keep your stories about your past life as an exotic dancer to myself. Hey, you were young, and needed the money. Nobody could hold that against you.
My lips are also sealed about your escapades running weapons in South America for those drug lords down there, the fact that you taught Dick Cheney how to hunt, your brief romance with Marilyn Monroe right after her divorce from Joe DiMaggio, how you were the one that told John F. Kennedy to just "bluff" during the Cuban Missle Crisis, and the story you told me about suggesting to Richard Nixon that he might want to place a few "bugs" in the Watergate Hotel to eavesdrop on his opponents.
I also won't mention how you were thrown off of "American Idol" for getting involved with one of the judges, how they asked you to leave the set of "Dancing with the Stars" because your moves on the dance floor put all of the other celebrities to shame, or any of the other confidential things you've told me about.
See? Your secrets are safe with me.
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Post by JohnD on Oct 22, 2006 15:37:02 GMT -5
I'm gonna have to stop talking in my sleep on campouts or you'll learn some of my secret life.
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Post by stevebarr on Oct 23, 2006 7:47:40 GMT -5
You might be a rockhound if…..
You've ever almost been run over on the highway because you stopped to see if there was anything interesting in a pothole.
You consider anything in Rick Jacqout's front yard as "fair game".
You've never made a bet that involved the possibility of losing a rock.
Your mother was disappointed in you as a teenager, because the only magazine she ever found hidden in your bedroom was "Rock and Gem".
You've ever asked a preacher to mail you a video of his sermon so you could dig that Sunday.
Every time you mail a package to a rockhound friend, at least one post office employee goes on sick leave with a strained back.
You were the only kid in the sandbox who ever dug through the bottom.
You've ever asked for a trackhoe for your birthday.
You've ever tipped you hairdresser with amethyst.
From that day on, your hairdresser was disappointed when you tipped with cash.
The local garden supply store has ever had to ask you to stop raking through their bags of topsoil.
The fish aquarium in your living room has better specimens in it than the Smithsonian.
You have to give away part of your collection so that the foundation on your house will stop sinking.
You love getting political flyers in the mail because they're perfect for wrapping specimens on a dig. And they're free. And you know those politicians really understand mud-slinging, just like you do.
You've ever applied for a bank loan to finance the next weekend's dig.
You've ever been thrown off the property at your children's school because you kept "rummaging" through the gravel at the base of the flagpole.
You don't particularly consider yourself to be a religious person, but you pray every time you go on a dig.
You're the only voter in your district that keeps calling your Senator and encouraging him to build more highways, because that just means you'll have more roadcuts to inspect.
You've ever been strip-searched by a park ranger.
You've ever been mugged for a specimen.
As a kid, you used to trade your school lunch for rocks.
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Post by stevebarr on Oct 23, 2006 10:00:10 GMT -5
John D called me up this morning, very excited. He said that he had been leafing through his latest copy of Cosmopolitan magazine and was startled to see a familiar face in one of their advertisements. He e-mailed me a copy of the ad, and I thought I would post it here on DirtyRockhounds for all of you to see. Once again, MAGMA women lead the way for the rest of the world, encouraging everyone to care about the environment we live in and to do our best to protect it. Way to go, Leah! You've made us all proud! P.S. Please don't ask why John D has a subscription to Cosmo. It's just one more thing in his life that he'd prefer not to talk about.
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Post by jewelonly on Oct 23, 2006 10:17:01 GMT -5
STEVE!!!!!!!!!!....you can run, but you cannot run fast enough!!!
Leah
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Post by stevebarr on Oct 23, 2006 10:49:47 GMT -5
Leah - At my age, I cannot run very fast anymore. But I'm not worried. I've learned from experience that most women who do manage to catch me very quickly practice what Brian refers to as the "catch and release program".
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Post by Beachbum on Oct 23, 2006 10:56:23 GMT -5
Steve... you really should listen to that other voice you here. You know, the one that says "Don't do it". It was nice knowing you.
Brian
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Post by stevebarr on Oct 23, 2006 11:07:12 GMT -5
If anyone is reading this and wondering why Leah is threatening my life, you'll have to go back to page 9 of the "You might be a rockhound if..." post. She very cleverly bumped this to page 10 hoping that some of you might not see it....
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Post by jewelonly on Oct 23, 2006 12:06:17 GMT -5
hmmmn...let's see...checking once, checking twice...NOPE!!...NO SIREE!!...Rick and Steve are certainly NOT on the Christmas cookie list anymore!
Leah (laughing)
...however, Brian's name is appearing on the list for giving very good, although tardy, advice.
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Post by stevebarr on Oct 23, 2006 13:15:00 GMT -5
Please Leah, don't cut Rick off of your Christmas Cookie list....it was all my idea. (And, I know he'll share his with me after you give them to him!) I'm not sure why you are upset with me. Is it because I posted this?
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Post by snakewrangler on Oct 23, 2006 13:48:58 GMT -5
Okay Steve, I've had trouble with the Internet the past few days, but have caught up now. My advice vice to you is to hide out and wait for this HURRICANE, that you've sturred up, to blow over.
Trust me, I know how mad Teachers act, especialy the female teachers. ;D
Leah You sure did look great in that Ad, when is your next Ad coming out?
Kyle
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Post by jewelonly on Oct 23, 2006 14:01:55 GMT -5
Kyle, my first choice?...when the nether region freezes over.
Leah (smiling, but with a glint)
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Post by jimolson on Oct 23, 2006 15:38:46 GMT -5
"when the nether region freezes over" I must have missed an important part of this thread.
I do remember being at JXR last December standing thigh deep in a frozen puddle at the bottom of the pit - thinking that such a thing could, or may have already happened.
jim
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Post by writerman2255 on Oct 23, 2006 20:03:03 GMT -5
Dear Jim Olson: I think the 'you might be a rockhound if' book idea is great. We should compile things from everybody, and give everybody credit for the book/then when it sells, donate all the money to our land fund. I know a great printer who would do the book. There could be cartoons in there too. I'm good at some kinds of artwork.
You know if you are a rockhound when you go to the Silver Armadillo on Saturdays AFTER a dig, to buy stones, and then look around and see another club member there, and think 'that guy is crazy!'
Tom.
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Post by writerman2255 on Oct 23, 2006 20:12:11 GMT -5
You know you're a rockhound if you read this thread and realize, 'how did they know what I did?'
You know you're a rockhound when your kids think a trip to collect specimens is taking some off your shelves, and putting a few on theirs.
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Post by jimolson on Oct 24, 2006 4:43:02 GMT -5
Hi Tom - I have an ongoing list that I have sent to one person for editing and to 3 others for illustration - I have only seen 2 illustrations come back and both of them were great! Keep'em coming team! Would you like a copy of the list to work with? Shoot me an email.
jim
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Post by indyme2 on Oct 24, 2006 8:31:20 GMT -5
Nice boots Leah! Your other shoes are heels?
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Post by damammy on Oct 24, 2006 15:47:45 GMT -5
You might be a rockhound if you travel several hundred miles and return with just a box of rocks.
If you hear something in the washing machine and without looking know, it is rocks.
If you call rockhounding trips your relaxing and healing time no matter how hard you work. Donna
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Post by Rockbottom on Oct 24, 2006 16:01:47 GMT -5
You might be a rockhound if you: drove 14 hours to get to the Grotto of the Redemption in West Bend, IA and were escorted off the grounds for tyring to pry loose a fine example of petrified wood.
Gaylord E. Penton (Rockbottom)
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Post by writerman2255 on Oct 24, 2006 19:49:10 GMT -5
Sure, Jim I'll send you the request for whatever list you have, or whatever help I can be with the book. I don't know your email address though!
Mine is tb@onepennymillionaire.com right off my website. You can reach me there. Thanks!
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Post by snakewrangler on Oct 24, 2006 21:22:42 GMT -5
Leah, what exactly did you mean by that comment?
Back to the topic at hand..........................
-You think that people are crazy when they through rocks away.
-You go to gem/rock store just to get a price and a specimen.
-You can always work in some way to go diggin on the weekends.
-You know how to get to every diggin location around your state.
-You go on vacation to the beach and you bring buckets of pay dirt and rocks with you just so that you will have fun.
Come on Yall there are millions more, Rick we haven't heard much out of you on this thread.
Kyle
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