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#1 jpc

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Posted 03 September 2010 - 11:59 PM

This guy showed up today at the office. I work in a geology museum, for those of you who haven't noticed.

http://www.seazoria.com/

I spent an hour with him, looking at a few rocks he had, a foot long piece of schist he was calling a facial spike, and a big piece of limestone that was supposed to be a tooth. Jeez.

Mike, if you are reading, nice visiting with you, but I am afraid your fossils are really mostly limestone. I'm sorry I didn't have time to bring out the HCl, but Kent told me he found some...

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Posted 04 September 2010 - 12:34 AM

You actually met that guy? Did you get an autograph?
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Posted 04 September 2010 - 01:01 AM

View PostAuspex, on 04 September 2010 - 12:34 AM, said:

You actually met that guy? Did you get an autograph?
lol

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Posted 04 September 2010 - 01:30 AM

JP!! You didnt hook me up with one?!?!?

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Posted 04 September 2010 - 10:13 AM

Man that dude has invested some time into that ROCK.

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Posted 04 September 2010 - 01:07 PM

Wow so did this guy lituraly spent the time to exevate a plain old rock??????? Couldnt he tell it was just a rock?

Wow i just now saw the other pics. Someone sould tell him they are just rocks. frome glacars or something

Edited by frozen_turkey, 04 September 2010 - 01:09 PM.


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Posted 04 September 2010 - 01:29 PM

Well i jsut sent him a email and broke the news to him. Hope hes not to up-set. Mabye i sould invite him on one of my fossil trips to show him what a real monster looks like.

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Posted 04 September 2010 - 05:54 PM

ok i jsut did some looking in to this and i found out that its going to be on tv.

So are we the only people around that arnt insane.

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Posted 04 September 2010 - 07:03 PM

View Postfrozen_turkey, on 04 September 2010 - 05:54 PM, said:

ok i jsut did some looking in to this and i found out that its going to be on tv.

So are we the only people around that arnt insane.
I prefer "reality challenged" :)
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Posted 04 September 2010 - 08:47 PM

Funniest thing I ever heard!!!

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Posted 04 September 2010 - 10:13 PM

View PostAuspex, on 04 September 2010 - 07:03 PM, said:

I prefer "reality challenged" :)
Or what General Macauliffe said!

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Posted 04 September 2010 - 10:29 PM

Oh, yeah, I got to meet him. No autograph, didn't think of thatone. This guy has huge hours into a rock collection. And I mean rocks. He's been to I think all the museums in Utah to tell his tale, and now he's invading Wyoming. He didn't stay long, though. And he's been told time and time again that he has rocks. Some of my paleo buddies from utah have dealt with him for sevearl years.

And yes, I am intirgued... I'll bite, what did General Mcauliffe say? I'm dying to know.

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Posted 04 September 2010 - 10:36 PM

View Postjpc, on 04 September 2010 - 10:29 PM, said:

Oh, yeah, I got to meet him. No autograph, didn't think of thatone. This guy has huge hours into a rock collection. And I mean rocks. He's been to I think all the museums in Utah to tell his tale, and now he's invading Wyoming. He didn't stay long, though. And he's been told time and time again that he has rocks. Some of my paleo buddies from utah have dealt with him for sevearl years.

And yes, I am intirgued... I'll bite, what did General Mcauliffe say? I'm dying to know.
I can't make it that easy! Google General Mcauliffe's response to the Germans /Battle of the Bulge.

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Posted 04 September 2010 - 10:40 PM

View Postjpc, on 04 September 2010 - 10:29 PM, said:

Oh, yeah, I got to meet him. No autograph, didn't think of thatone. This guy has huge hours into a rock collection. And I mean rocks. He's been to I think all the museums in Utah to tell his tale, and now he's invading Wyoming. He didn't stay long, though. And he's been told time and time again that he has rocks. Some of my paleo buddies from utah have dealt with him for sevearl years.

And yes, I am intirgued... I'll bite, what did General Mcauliffe say? I'm dying to know.
I know i told him they were rocks and that i had 13 years of collecting under my belt and that im working on my phd in peleo, but he said he only lisens to profetionals. So according to him i dont know any thing! :o

And he said that he has had proffesers and paleontologist to see it and he said they said it was a dagon??????

I think he isnt telling me every thing.


By the way im trying to get him on this site so we can all band together and tell him they are just rocks. And mabye just mabye hell lisen. :unsure:

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Posted 04 September 2010 - 10:49 PM

View Postfrozen_turkey, on 04 September 2010 - 10:40 PM, said:

I know i told him they were rocks and that i had 13 years of collecting under my belt and that im working on my phd in peleo, but he said he only lisens to profetionals. So according to him i dont know any thing! :o

And he said that he has had proffesers and paleontologist to see it and he said they said it was a dagon??????

I think he isnt telling me every thing.


By the way im trying to get him on this site so we can all band together and tell him they are just rocks. And mabye just mabye hell lisen. :unsure:

-Frozen
I've heard his dragon and the primate skull got engaged! Happy couple pictured below!-G

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Posted 04 September 2010 - 11:08 PM

View PostGizmo, on 04 September 2010 - 10:49 PM, said:

I've heard his dragon and the primate skull got engaged! Happy couple pictured below!-G
Quite a fantastic dragon skull!!! That huge lump of rock must be the eye orbits and that irregular formation must be the mandible, LOL!! thanks for posting those pics

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Posted 04 September 2010 - 11:19 PM

View PostGizmo, on 04 September 2010 - 10:13 PM, said:

Or what General Macauliffe said!
:P
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Posted 04 September 2010 - 11:33 PM

View Postfrozen_turkey, on 04 September 2010 - 05:54 PM, said:

ok i jsut did some looking in to this and i found out that its going to be on tv.

So are we the only people around that arnt insane.
what the heck is going on , TV??? wow

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Posted 04 September 2010 - 11:43 PM

View Postfrozen_turkey, on 04 September 2010 - 10:40 PM, said:

By the way im trying to get him on this site so we can all band together and tell him they are just rocks. And mabye just mabye hell lisen.
Do NOT!
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Posted 04 September 2010 - 11:44 PM

Wonder if he had trouble dragin-it-out.
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