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I'll bet a Ferrari marble would be pretty great! What's up with the reference to fiberglass? Never heard anything about that. ( :

It's mind-blowing. To have something turn out as well as that must be one of the greatest feelings in the world. ( : But I have to pursue this further. KBOB Television's investigative news team has uncovered some mysteries 'hiding in plain sight'! What's up with the large spherical things up on top? And the interesting looking piece of 'print'? (First photo) The second photo is from the reflection in the mirror. It reveals another large (although not as much) spherical thing in what appears to be a wooden salad bowl/satellite-dish combination. Marbly minds want to know!

Never heard of MRSA until now. Worth knowing about! I think it was the same guy I mentioned before who told me that the only reason for any sane person to be in a hospital is if they're unfortunate enough to wake up there. You're right! The topic has strayed a teeny weeny little bit!

I've never been especially interested in this type of marbles. But these are definitely beautiful so I have to say so. And I'm going to add in an emoticon which fits in with Killermarbles' last message.

Thanks, Bob! I think suggestions like these are very valuable! They need to be mentioned so people who might not be exposed to them otherwise can take them into consideration. Boy oh boy. The medical stuff gets crazy. I don't know if this still goes on now, but it used to be standard practice to put drops of (I think) silver nitrate into newborn babies' eyes to 'protect' them from eyesight problems that might happen if one of the parents had certain sexually transmitted diseases. I knew an OB way back when who told me that his approach to this was to take the closed bottle of silver nitrate and wave it in the general vicinity of the baby's head. He took the idea of a physician 'doing no harm' seriously. ( :

Those are cool. Anything you can get to work will be appreciated. The only scanner I've ever owned is now in a box on a shelf. Been there for some time. It left me thoroughly confused. ( :

Whoops. Someone beat me to the rubber o-rings. A small half-inch one gives you a very subtle look with larger marbles, and is surprisingly stable. ( :

How's the ol' persnickety scanner doing?

Hey, Ann! Please continue to bring up things! Especially when they're interesting and in addition are just so wrong that they need to be pointed out. I've recently come to accept, kicking and screaming, that language does change. But I'm only willing to do this in the sense of a slow social progression that half-way makes sense. Suddenly deciding that a word means its exact opposite in some form of mass hypnotic stupidity doesn't cut it. ( :

Haven't looked at the link yet, and I already agree with you. I think the same idea holds true for adults as well. If you get to where you make a point of washing your entire body with some anti-bacterial agent every day, you're just going to make your immune system weak. And if past patterns continue to be true (which they usually do), the stuff will also have some other ingredient which causes a second horrific problem! Everything in moderation! Next to the 'Golden Rule', this is the number two thing to take seriously! ( :

Thanks to all for the various candy-marble / marble-candy variations. I'm trying to picture Mom's reaction to seeing her little prince playing in the dirt with gumball marbles, then sucking on one and spitting before chewing it. I'll bet it was swift and loud. ( :

Going a little deeper into your link (whoops! pardon!), it looks likes she's approached a lot of fun subjects. Well they're not all fun in and of themselves,but still seem interesting. And 'interesting' is fun. Thanks for bringing her up. ( :

You actually enjoy all of this motley crew? Clearly someone so lacking in prejudices or bias needs 'help' now. We're all here for you, Winnie!

Was also going to mention that the 'unbelievable places' post earlier was mind-blowing.

and rare at the same time! Geesh! It's almost 'sick' how perfectly balanced that shot is on so many levels. I just did an 'I'm not worthy' gesture in your general direction! ( :

It does look interesting! But my cynical side tells me that the price reflects its status as 'required reading' in her current classes!

Three posts! At effectively the same 'random' time! 9:57, 9:59, 10:00. ♪(Insert 'Twilight Zone' music here)♪

If you know what 'horseshoe' marbles are, (I know I don't), it would be good of you to answer Hansel's question: What are "Horseshoe Marbles"? I'm interested in what's going on here too. Both Beich (pronounced 'bike' in English) and Leader made and/or distributed candy. A quick search makes it clear that they were not 'marble' people. So Hansel! What are you thinking about this!? Did these really interesting boxes hold candy that looks like marbles? It makes sense that candy-makers might make small round balls and decide that 'marbles' is the best name for them. Or are glass marbles involved, too? ( : (Steph just sent a post a minute or two ahead of me. First sentence in my post was not directed at her.)

Here's the closeup photo of the black stuff in my marble. I guess there's a little gold in there, but in practice it doesn't really have any effect. Do any of you photo-heads have any ring-flash experience? Years ago I just assumed that it would be an ultimate marble-shooting tool. Hasn't happened yet. Why would I get a little bitty ring reflection in the above shot with the setup below? Expensive lesson. I feel like a five and a half foot tall walking talking rump! ( :

Mike, are you talking about using the 'attach files' button? I'm so used to using photobucket that I never think about that. Sounds like a good idea to see if sending a photo directly works better than sending a link.

I'd be happy to contribute my two cents, but would hate to wind up doing nothing but adding to your frustration. Liked your ITOFT expression. Much classier than the more common version with an extra letter at the end! ( :

Thanks! The 'focus' of the gray area in the first photo made me think it couldn't be the 'see-through' background, but the 'darker to lighter' from the bottom to the top made me think 'well maybe it could'. The red stripes really look like transparent glass. Nice piece! ( :

The Deep Purple and Doors were great! I'm going to retract my "greatest driving song" comment, and just say that all these songs should consider it "an honor just to be nominated!" ( : Haven't listened to the most recent 'fancy' music, but judging from the past, I'm going to enjoy that too. And the funny thing is that this music is pretty terrific for driving as well.

That's a wild one! If you don't mind my being a little 'out there', (never done that before!), the design is very 'natural' and makes me think of many things. It could be *out in space *underwater *under a microscope *a fossil underneath the North Pole ( :