03-07-2020, 01:09 AM
I have a "thing" for fossils, and have spent many an hour hunting them down. Years ago, when I lived in Ohio, I found one in a fine-grained sandstone that perplexed me. I found it about half-way between Cleveland and Akron, in a bitty little place named "Boston Heights" (precise location of find is: 41°16'21.66" N 81°31'28.79" W ). It appeared to me to be the shank of a machine screw, about a #8 screw, without the screw head to positively identify it, and it was embedded in the sandstone. Oddly, it was black in color, as if it were phosphate-coated, and the "threads", or whatever they were, were exceptionally regular in spacing, which is what gave it the appearance of a machine screw rather than a biologically created item.
I've often wondered about that fossilized screw.
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I've often wondered about that fossilized screw.
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Diogenes was eating bread and lentils for supper. He was seen by the philosopher Aristippus, who lived comfortably by flattering the king.
Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.’ Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’
Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.’ Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’