Steph

:) sauce so hot it burned a hole in the floor?

catches the eye!

I still can't tell if it's just a coincidence that the words have some similarity of sound and meaning. Did they have unrelated linguistic origins? Or is there still a relation but it wasn't made clear in those two entries? .... Or was it clear and I just missed it?

Odd. I'm not sure in that photo. Does the whiter area of the marble trace a circle around the middle as your roll it around in the light?

Got it in one!

I posted this as a "guess the mystery picture" on another forum. I've already posted it here as what it really is. So I assume this will be easy to guess from scratch or from memory. But here goes. Let me have it.

Neato! Thanks for sharing.

On #2 my first guess is Anacortes Vitro

This game was fun. Let's play again.

New picture!

Coolness!!!!! And now you can see it is not necessarily backfilled.

That sounds yum. .... The lima is scary .... but I'm willing to try them again. Tonight I added raisins to my teriyaki-ginger-crushed-red-pepper burgers. I mix up the fixings for about six burgers at a time. Where will this madness end?

renown (n.) c. 1300, from Anglo-French renoun, Old French renon "renown, fame, reputation," from renomer "make famous," from re- "repeatedly" (see re-) + nomer"to name," from Latin nominare "to name" (see nominate). The Middle English verb reknouen "make known, acknowledge" has been assimilated to the noun via renowned. In old German university slang, a reknowner (German renommist) was "a boaster, a swaggerer." http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=renown know (v.) Old English cnawan (class VII strong verb; past tense cneow, past participle cnawen), "to know, perceive; acknowledge, declare," from Proto-Germanic*knew- (cognates: Old High German bi-chnaan, ir-chnaan "to know"), from PIE root *gno- "to know" (cognates: Old Persian xšnasatiy "he shall know;" Old Church Slavonic znati, Russian znat "to know;" Latin gnoscere; Greek *gno-, as in gignoskein; Sanskrit jna- "know"). Once widespread in Germanic, this form is now retained only in English, where however it has widespread application, covering meanings that require two or more verbs in other languages (such as German wissen, kennen, erkennen and in part können; French connaître, savoir; Latin novisse, cognoscere; Old Church Slavonic znaja, vemi). The Anglo-Saxons used two distinct words for this, witan (see wit) and cnawan. http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=know Does that mean not related?

((((((Bob)))))) What show is it?

nucklehead!

Congrats. They're fascinating.

termite architecture?

Why is "renown" spelled without a K? I thought I had a great scrabble word -- REKNOWN and it was wrong. Renown is being known .... so why no K? Pffffllllllll

Kewl. Yours?

Not getting a good feel for that one. Not enough to tell if it more likely to be vintage or modern. Could be modern -- a Jabo. But I'm not getting a good feel for it at all. I'll suggest putting it in a generic swirl lot and not worrying about it further.

I'd say West Virginia swirl on this one.

Originally the Meteors were Master's version of the Moss Agates. Not sure when/if that changed.

nice

Very wild swirl. No guess on maker at this time.