A couple of days ago while digging over some dirt, I dug up this. I thought it was a rock. Tapped on your teeth it gives a rock/porcelain sound. But it is smooth. Size of an egg. Shape of an egg, but it has some bits attached and apparently a hole in it. I’m thinking it’s a fake egg for putting under a chook that is clucky. There does seem to be a seamline in one part of it. I’d like it to be a dragon’s egg. But that’s rather unlikely.

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buffy said:

A couple of days ago while digging over some dirt, I dug up this. I thought it was a rock. Tapped on your teeth it gives a rock/porcelain sound. But it is smooth. Size of an egg. Shape of an egg, but it has some bits attached and apparently a hole in it. I’m thinking it’s a fake egg for putting under a chook that is clucky. There does seem to be a seamline in one part of it. I’d like it to be a dragon’s egg. But that’s rather unlikely.

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It does look a bit like a fake egg but it is probably simply a lump of quartz.

roughbarked said:

buffy said:

A couple of days ago while digging over some dirt, I dug up this. I thought it was a rock. Tapped on your teeth it gives a rock/porcelain sound. But it is smooth. Size of an egg. Shape of an egg, but it has some bits attached and apparently a hole in it. I’m thinking it’s a fake egg for putting under a chook that is clucky. There does seem to be a seamline in one part of it. I’d like it to be a dragon’s egg. But that’s rather unlikely.

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It does look a bit like a fake egg but it is probably simply a lump of quartz.

It’s very, very smooth and shaped.

buffy said:

roughbarked said:

buffy said:

A couple of days ago while digging over some dirt, I dug up this. I thought it was a rock. Tapped on your teeth it gives a rock/porcelain sound. But it is smooth. Size of an egg. Shape of an egg, but it has some bits attached and apparently a hole in it. I’m thinking it’s a fake egg for putting under a chook that is clucky. There does seem to be a seamline in one part of it. I’d like it to be a dragon’s egg. But that’s rather unlikely.

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It does look a bit like a fake egg but it is probably simply a lump of quartz.

It’s very, very smooth and shaped.

Streams and glaciers can do this.

roughbarked said:

buffy said:

roughbarked said:

It does look a bit like a fake egg but it is probably simply a lump of quartz.

It’s very, very smooth and shaped.

Streams and glaciers can do this.

Materials like quartz that are pushed through cavities, can tend to be smoothed and ridged.

Geode?

there are also concretions. https://australianmuseum.net.au/learn/minerals/shaping-earth/concretions-thunder-eggs-and-geodes/

Divine Angel said:

Geode?

https://www.minerals.net/mineral/quartz.aspx

Oh, and it floats in water. And stays with the same side up when it floats.

buffy said:

Oh, and it floats in water. And stays with the same side up when it floats.

Oh.

buffy said:

Oh, and it floats in water. And stays with the same side up when it floats.

Is it a witch?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrzMhU_4m-g

sibeen said:

buffy said:

Oh, and it floats in water. And stays with the same side up when it floats.

Is it a witch?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrzMhU_4m-g

kii will turn you into a newt if you aren’t careful!

buffy said:

Oh, and it floats in water. And stays with the same side up when it floats.

It’s a mini potato boat.

Early prototype for Gwyneth Poultry’s vag egg. I mean Paltrow.

kii said:

Early prototype for Gwyneth Poultry’s vag egg. I mean Paltrow.

Many previous owners

I mean … at first glance this would appear to be a pebble.

I coughed up something like that,

One could endlessly speculate what it might be, but it looks like a potato although it obviously isn’t. Though I am surprised that anyone would pull something out of the ground and tap it against their own teeth as a means to identify it – notwithstanding the fact that certain professionals, you know who you are, have a reputation for licking rocks to identify them…

furious said:

One could endlessly speculate what it might be, but it looks like a potato although it obviously isn’t. Though I am surprised that anyone would pull something out of the ground and tap it against their own teeth as a means to identify it – notwithstanding the fact that certain professionals, you know who you are, have a reputation for licking rocks to identify them…

I’m an old optometrist. I practised through the days changing over from glass spectacle lenses to plastic ones. If you want to know if someone’s lenses in their glasses are glass or plastic, you tap them on your teeth, or tap them with a screwdriver. I always found teeth better. You are testing hardness and the sound they make. So I applied that to this “rock” because it is way too smooth for its own good. And if you are worried about the dirt…I’ve got an immune system.

I keep the ones I cough up, 7 of them so far, accumulated metals and other poisons my immune system is getiting rid off

Zarkov said:

I keep the ones I cough up, 7 of them so far, accumulated metals and other poisons my immune system is getiting rid off

You’re thinking of the infinity stones

buffy said:

furious said:

One could endlessly speculate what it might be, but it looks like a potato although it obviously isn’t. Though I am surprised that anyone would pull something out of the ground and tap it against their own teeth as a means to identify it – notwithstanding the fact that certain professionals, you know who you are, have a reputation for licking rocks to identify them…

I’m an old optometrist. I practised through the days changing over from glass spectacle lenses to plastic ones. If you want to know if someone’s lenses in their glasses are glass or plastic, you tap them on your teeth, or tap them with a screwdriver. I always found teeth better. You are testing hardness and the sound they make. So I applied that to this “rock” because it is way too smooth for its own good. And if you are worried about the dirt…I’ve got an immune system.

This is why buffy is so scary… she pretends she’s normal but really does stuff like this and explains it away with, “oh, that’s just how optometrists do it”.

dv said:

Zarkov said:

I keep the ones I cough up, 7 of them so far, accumulated metals and other poisons my immune system is getiting rid off

You’re thinking of the infinity stones

Or inzarkov stones?

Zarkov said:

I keep the ones I cough up, 7 of them so far, accumulated metals and other poisons my immune system is getiting rid off

Drink heaps of soy sauce….

• And if you are worried about the dirt…I’ve got an immune system.

I might be a germophobe by proxy. I was, seemingly, the only one concerned about that person using bare hands to remove a snake from a toilet too…

• If you want to know if someone’s lenses in their glasses are glass or plastic, you tap them on your teeth, or tap them with a screwdriver. I always found teeth better. You are testing hardness and the sound they make.

A technique that you obviously can’t apply to glasses, to test hardness, is to scratch it with some thing. If it leaves a mark, the thing you scratched it with is harder…

Divine Angel said:

buffy said:

furious said:

One could endlessly speculate what it might be, but it looks like a potato although it obviously isn’t. Though I am surprised that anyone would pull something out of the ground and tap it against their own teeth as a means to identify it – notwithstanding the fact that certain professionals, you know who you are, have a reputation for licking rocks to identify them…

I’m an old optometrist. I practised through the days changing over from glass spectacle lenses to plastic ones. If you want to know if someone’s lenses in their glasses are glass or plastic, you tap them on your teeth, or tap them with a screwdriver. I always found teeth better. You are testing hardness and the sound they make. So I applied that to this “rock” because it is way too smooth for its own good. And if you are worried about the dirt…I’ve got an immune system.

This is why buffy is so scary… she pretends she’s normal but really does stuff like this and explains it away with, “oh, that’s just how optometrists do it”.

You think that’s scary try living with her -:)

furious said:

One could endlessly speculate what it might be, but it looks like a potato although it obviously isn’t. Though I am surprised that anyone would pull something out of the ground and tap it against their own teeth as a means to identify it – notwithstanding the fact that certain professionals, you know who you are, have a reputation for licking rocks to identify them…

I resemble that!

Tamb said:

dv said:

Zarkov said:

I keep the ones I cough up, 7 of them so far, accumulated metals and other poisons my immune system is getiting rid off

You’re thinking of the infinity stones

Or inzarkov stones?

Or wasinzarkov stones.

Old Mango seed?

Peak Warming Man said:

Old Mango seed?

But would that clang like porcelain?

I did worry it might be an ancient chook egg, but I don’t think so.

Remember also that I live on the side of an old volcano, scoria cone.

buffy said:

Peak Warming Man said:

Old Mango seed?

But would that clang like porcelain?

I did worry it might be an ancient chook egg, but I don’t think so.

Remember also that I live on the side of an old volcano, scoria cone.

Pumice stone that has a noticeable texture though

Divine Angel said:

buffy said:

furious said:

One could endlessly speculate what it might be, but it looks like a potato although it obviously isn’t. Though I am surprised that anyone would pull something out of the ground and tap it against their own teeth as a means to identify it – notwithstanding the fact that certain professionals, you know who you are, have a reputation for licking rocks to identify them…

I’m an old optometrist. I practised through the days changing over from glass spectacle lenses to plastic ones. If you want to know if someone’s lenses in their glasses are glass or plastic, you tap them on your teeth, or tap them with a screwdriver. I always found teeth better. You are testing hardness and the sound they make. So I applied that to this “rock” because it is way too smooth for its own good. And if you are worried about the dirt…I’ve got an immune system.

This is why buffy is so scary… she pretends she’s normal but really does stuff like this and explains it away with, “oh, that’s just how optometrists do it”.

Jewellers rub pearls on their teeth to check if they are real or cultured. They also touch gemstones to their lips to ascertain that they are real.

Stand down. It’s got to be one of these. An antique egg for encouraging chooks to lay in the place you want them to lay. I can see the seam, like you can see in this picture. I initially thought porcelain egg, but ti didn’t quite fit. I didn’t know some of the antique ones were pottery.

buffy said:

Stand down. It’s got to be one of these. An antique egg for encouraging chooks to lay in the place you want them to lay. I can see the seam, like you can see in this picture. I initially thought porcelain egg, but ti didn’t quite fit. I didn’t know some of the antique ones were pottery.

Yeah. Seems fair enough.

buffy said:

Stand down. It’s got to be one of these. An antique egg for encouraging chooks to lay in the place you want them to lay. I can see the seam, like you can see in this picture. I initially thought porcelain egg, but ti didn’t quite fit. I didn’t know some of the antique ones were pottery.

My dad used to use wooden fishing floats painted white.

party_pants said:

buffy said:

Stand down. It’s got to be one of these. An antique egg for encouraging chooks to lay in the place you want them to lay. I can see the seam, like you can see in this picture. I initially thought porcelain egg, but ti didn’t quite fit. I didn’t know some of the antique ones were pottery.

My dad used to use wooden fishing floats painted white.

I doubt that pottery floats unless it is a flattish disc?.

roughbarked said:

party_pants said:

buffy said:

Stand down. It’s got to be one of these. An antique egg for encouraging chooks to lay in the place you want them to lay. I can see the seam, like you can see in this picture. I initially thought porcelain egg, but ti didn’t quite fit. I didn’t know some of the antique ones were pottery.

My dad used to use wooden fishing floats painted white.

I doubt that pottery floats unless it is a flattish disc?.

It’s like those ones in the picture. It must be partly hollow. There is a hole in it, and when I soaked it in soapy water to clean the outside, some of the water must have gone inside. Because now it is leaking. But it’s one of those pottery eggs for sure. Now I’ve found a picture of the antique ones.

Here are some more:

I might have to dig a bit more in that area now.

buffy said:

Oh, and it floats in water. And stays with the same side up when it floats.

Potato.

buffy said:

Stand down. It’s got to be one of these. An antique egg for encouraging chooks to lay in the place you want them to lay. I can see the seam, like you can see in this picture. I initially thought porcelain egg, but ti didn’t quite fit. I didn’t know some of the antique ones were pottery.

Perfect answer. Ignore all else.

furious said:

* And if you are worried about the dirt…I’ve got an immune system.

I might be a germophobe by proxy. I was, seemingly, the only one concerned about that person using bare hands to remove a snake from a toilet too…

Not the only one…

OCDC said:

furious said:

* And if you are worried about the dirt…I’ve got an immune system.

I might be a germophobe by proxy. I was, seemingly, the only one concerned about that person using bare hands to remove a snake from a toilet too…

Not the only one…

Oh, you are in catchup mode too…