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The Quest of the Red Pearl

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Old 10-12-2007, 01:07 AM
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Brick red. Big. Conch.

And LINK to the author ...


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Old 10-12-2007, 04:07 AM
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Conch pearl. Wow. I wonder if garden snails make pearls?
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Interesting question. Why couldn't they? It could happen!
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Old 10-12-2007, 04:27 AM
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Ahahaha! I was literally laughing like a goof when I wrote that.
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Interesting question. Why couldn't they? It could happen!

Out of what? Non-nacreous slime?

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Old 10-12-2007, 04:41 AM
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Ooof. Bad one. Quick, someone slug her for it.
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Ooof. Bad one. Quick, someone slug her for it.
Ha Ha Ha! That was painful. Meouch!
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Old 10-12-2007, 04:56 AM
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Ha Ha Ha! That was painful. Meouch!

Don't worry. I have an iron jaw(you do mean me, don't you pearl-boy?). I can kick Josh's @$$ anytime and he knows it. No contest, really. He just imagines he's funny.

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Old 10-12-2007, 07:25 AM
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Hmmm... I probably should be worried about you with your iron jaw and your bone head.
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Conch pearl. Wow. I wonder if garden snails make pearls?
Doubt (Helix Aspersa) snails could make pearls... because their shell repair mechanisms seems ill suited for this: the fresh shell is solely proteinaceous and calcifies later randomly, by calcium diffusion made possible by shell layers kept thin. At least, this is what my (very puzzled) colleague says. Luckily, these pests are about as researched and analyzed as the serious pearl-making bivalves!

But... did you mean 'non-nacreous = no-good' by any chance?

OK. If you find a better lovely word for these concretions, I will never call them 'pearls' again.
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Hmmm... I probably should be worried about you with your iron jaw and your bone head.
Seriously man, can't you come up with something funnier.

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What? You can dish it out but you can't take it? I have to admit to thinking that was pretty funny. I was chortling away when I wrote it.

Valeria, That conch pearl was cool, I meant it. Non-nacreous=target for silly comments. That pearl definitely takes the cake for this thread anyway.
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What? You can dish it out but you can't take it? I have to admit to thinking that was pretty funny. I was chortling away when I wrote it.
It's still not funny. And yes, it's interesting that YOU should think your stuff is hilarious and YOU should laugh at it. Some people are just able to amuse themselves with very little.

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Old 10-12-2007, 11:59 PM
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I do have to admit to being one of those.
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Old 10-14-2007, 12:58 AM
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Valeria, That conch pearl was cool...

I was looking for more convincingly red ones. I know they are out there. Only saw small conch that I could call 'red' without blushing.

Something like those mixed in the strand below. No idea if a nacreous equivalent with red body color exists....



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