Steph
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Hi. Lonnie. Nice to meet you!
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Cricket matches last for days. Up to five days. With special rules for taking breaks for lunch, tea and drinks. My experience with cricket is watching a few seconds at a time in British television shows. So I was amazed today to learn this.
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Burn the bills!
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beauties
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We all went in on lottery tickets and won, so now we're all millionaires. Sorry you weren't here to get in on it.
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Thanks for reassuring me that these are real. Here's a good English word for you if you don't know it yet .... "smithereens". You familiar with that one?
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sharp
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Aventurescence, Chatoyancy, Asterism, Lustre, ....
Steph replied to Steph's topic in General Marble & Glass Chat
Cute .... but on a serious note ... Schiller sounds like what causes fire in marbles with striations ... maybe? -
My turn soon. Camera found. Marbles chosen. /end tease
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A neat list of adjectives for describing different kinds of luster and sparkle and iridescence -- Bob sent it to me. Nice pics. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lustre_(mineralogy)
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That would be a very nice display ... plus a nice way to keep oneself selective. I like it a lot. Need to remember.
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I'll vote yes. A slightly fuzzy vote though.
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Looks like we're in for six more weeks of winter. I can dig it!
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I covet charm strings. Hoping to come across one for a nice price in the wild. I stored my buttons in different ways like I did my marbles. Sometimes little baggies, sometimes in partitioned trays in Riker cases, sometimes bubble wrap lined boxes.
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That PPP is something else! Makes me think of an eyeball as drawn in an anatomy text.
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Like! Czech, yes? I might get into buttons again. I mostly sold off my buttons which I started collecting shortly before getting into marbles. I kept a couple of couple of different, interesting glass buttons. *putting it in queue to get pictures of*
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(picture thanks to Bob)
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Sometimes I wonder if people make up words for these lists. I hope these are real. http://mentalfloss.com/article/28315/15-wonderful-words-no-english-equivalent
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Happy Groundhog Day. My favorite day of the year.
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How lovely (everyone) I have a fondness for contemps with specially designed stands made to match
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Nice randomizing! Great pic! MY pop would have known what kind of bike that was.
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Peanut Patch brand boiled peanuts .... I approve.