Rockwerks Lapidary Forum

You can pronounce the word "molybdenite" correctly on the first try.

You think the primary function of road cuts are tourist attractions.

You own more pieces of quartz than underwear.

The rockpile behind your garage is taller than you are.

You have put rocks into the bathtub to wash them.

Your spell checker has a vocabulary that includes the words "polymorph" and "pseudomorph".

You find yourself compelled to examine individual rocks in a gravel driveway.

Your family vacations are spent searching for really "cool" piles of rock and dirt.

Your children are named Rocky, Beryl, and Opal.

You always take a pick and a shovel with you on vacation.

You have framed pictures of rocks (or at least seriously thought about it).

Your children ask you if you have washed your hands before you sit down for dinner.

You chose a restaurant based upon the stone used to face the building.

You own more than half of the "Roadside Geology" book series.

Your indoor rock collection occupies more shelf space than your family photos.

You don't think of "cleavage" the same way everyone else does.

You have ever uttered the phrase "have you tried licking it?"

You have ever used the phrase "dropping acid" to refer to something other than drug use.

You are willing to cross eight lanes of freeway traffic on foot to see if the outcrop on the other side of the highway is the same type of rock as the one on the side you're parked on.

You have ever intentionally taken a 15-passenger van (preferably containing more than 15 passengers) over "roads" that were intended only for cattle.

You consider a "recent event" to be anything that has happened in the last hundred thousand years or so.

You have ever had to respond "yes" to the question, "What have you got in here, rocks?"

(From Nikki Blight's website. Geology for Beginners)

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Rockhounds are amazing. They know hundreds of words for different kinds of dirt and more hundreds of words for what it does when left alone for a few million years.

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The rear end of a trilobite is called a trilobutt.

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Bathtub???

That's like . . .work? That's what a dishwasher is for!

Dishwasher, man thats a smart idea. Next load will be rocks =)

Ha ha ha!
I suppose anyone who has ever mailed out or received a package of rocks in the mail qualifies!

Yup, It's the postman who says, "What have you got in here, rocks?"

This might be a future rock hound.

Awwww!! You bet he is!
Hi and welcome to the group!!

That's a future rock hound if I ever saw one. That is the only way to get rocks, down and dirty...lol
Thanks for the picture
Dan

Saturday. I'm taking the 9 y/o grandson out fossil hunting. This young man has been enthused about rocks for several years. Dad is Navy and they have been in CA for the last 4 years. They got back Dec. 12. Time for gramps to fire the boy up!