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Miscellaneous => General Chat => Topic started by: ShadowBrain on July 05, 2008, 01:09:57 PM
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My dad loves to travel and we manage to make enough money as a family to do so. Thus, I got this idea. I have taken several rocks and written my name (Trevor White) on one side and the name of a continent on the other (in the case of the United States, I have Eastern and Western US. Antartica is absent because I ran out of decent rocks). I have been to many of the continents on these rocks already, but I think I will again in the future. When I go to one of these places, I will leave a rock and take a picture of its location. Then, not only will my name be literally all over the world, but others can seek out my rocks and maybe do the same thing themselves!
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I scratch my name on walls and pee into every water source everywhere I go.
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There's a wooden Noah's Ark somewhere near Amish country in Pennsylvania with "Jesse, Brad, and Adam: Real Pirates" carved into it.
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I scratch my name on walls and pee into every water source everywhere I go.
That would be one of the "unsavory things" you do, right?
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I thought it was a quite desirable trait.
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I return! Pictures forthcoming.
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Wow! You already went somewhere?
You should do something like this (http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_2962584.html?menu=)... were it not for the lack of originality, having copied someone who copied a movie.
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That would be one of the "unsavory things" you do, right?
Hey! I also do that!
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Pictures at last!
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The Eiffel Tower in France, of course. I left it on the ground some hundred yards ahead of it with a good view.
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Behind an African waterfall. That gray lump in picture two is the rock.
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Very scenic, but there's some guy who jumped into the photos at the last second!
But seriously, you're lucky to have gone to those places.
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If customs officials get you, you could face a federal offense for tampering with natural things, or something.
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I don't think you have to declare rocks. Besides, I think all of these were potential skipping rocks (which, of course, you never actually skip when they're really good) I found near bodies of water, so they could've all come from Ethiopia for all I know.
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Yellow rocks are best.
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Rock #3 has finally been placed--in North America! (Linked because of largeness and my computer's inability to feasibly load Photobucket editation pages)
http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a335/Trevornater/IMG_0028.jpg
http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a335/Trevornater/IMG_0030.jpg
http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a335/Trevornater/IMG_0031.jpg
Yes, I could've done it anywhere, but I wanted it to be in a unique, natural place, and where better than near Mt. St. Helens on a 20-mile Boy Scouts-related hike?
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Pretty cool. I would like to do something like this one day. Can you put a rock in Michigan.
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I'd have sworn that Dc was going to comment about "rocks" probably meaning something vulgar over in Britain.
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You look like my Art History teacher from this and last semester.
Except your hair seems more controlled than his does.
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-insert obligatory immature joke about the topic title here-
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I second dc's motion to put one in the mitten.
Wow, that looks dirty when you read it.
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One in the mitten, two in the kitten
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I got it.
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One in the mitten, two in the kitten
Now you tell me.
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Ugh...
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Rock #4 has finally found a home! The location: Under a rock at Uluru in the Australian outback.
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This is really cool. I don't know why I haven't said that before.
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Mark my words: Those rocks are covered in foreign micro-organisms that will quickly destroy each continents' ecological balance, allowing rock-people to evolve and overtake humanity as this planet's dominant species.
By the way, where exactly in Africa did you place that rock behind a waterfall?
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Well, in was in Malawi, Africa, and I'm sorry to say I can't remember much more than that. I know it's a place where natives used to hide from slave traders, though.
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This is really cool. I don't know why I hadn't noticed it before. Anyway, I have a great aunt that collected rocks from various places she visited around the United States. She wrote the two letter abbreviations for the state each came from and put them in her rock garden/flower bed.
Hopefully one day you can get a picture of you putting a rock here (http://kaluszka.com/photos/Seattle%202008/IMG_0932.JPG). (Anyone have a list of everyone from the forums that's done that?)
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I only have one rock from the Guadalupe River in Texas, and was a rather spontaneous to grab it from the bottom of the river. I don't usually collect rocks.
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Whoa. This is pretty neato.
Any updates? How many continents left? and will you go to Antarctica if possible?
Hopefully you live long enough to put one on the moon too.
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Nope, no new continents so far. As for Antarctica, I passed up the opportunity during Freshman year while my brother and dad went, because my grades were in pretty bad shape (and besides, I wasn't that interested to begin with). Still, I can't eliminate the possibility--in fact, with the exception of South America (and technically Asia--I've been there, but I never left a rock), that's all I've got left.