Steph

Hate to be a party pooper but that white looks too translucent to me to be CAC. I'm NOT a CAC expert, or any kind of swirl expert. But I do expect CAC's to have crisper coloring. I'm gonna say Alley.

Sasquadoodle for the win!

My cat won't drink water. Seriously. Not from a bowl. Not from a fountain. Not from a sink. The only thing she will drink is condensed goat's milk, and not much of that. She's making me crazy(er).

Jabo or Alley

Now when people do internet searches for Zambian marble makers they'll find this thread and think they have hit paydirt.

it was made in Zambia with two swirl feeders, putting down a half dollop of yellow and then a half dollop of red, then sending it down the roller. Trust me!

Are you speaking of the curve of the patch itself? I was looking at all the curvy lines within the patch (and within the base) ... plus there's that little window between the red and the yellow. Not saying yay or nay -- just seeing if we're talking about the same kind of swirling.

Liberty Mutual ads! Amirite?! The emu is okay, but Doug has to go.

I could just as easily go with popeye patch though. It's not screaming Master at me. Just thinking ....

Red, white and blue with totally clear base was an early Master combination. A paler blue in the early box that I'm most familiar with. But maybe?

Oddly swirly. Hi Gladys!

I like it!

In the 1930's, "Spiral" was a specific type of corkscrew -- a colored ribbon (or a white ribbon) with clear base glass. But I did see some prominent marble literature from maybe the 1980's which said "spirals" when talking about corks. It might have been a MCSA publication. That's when I learned that there was some time period when "spiral" was the common term. I don't know when that started or how long it lasted. And I don't know when or where we got "corkscrew". I have wondered that also.

I brought my Chromebook with me to work today just so that I could check for an important email between shifts. I forgot that a few days ago I changed my password from a different machine, so the password stored on my Chromebook won't work.

I certainly didn't mean to imply Rick's marble was a Citrus. I was just brainstorming Pelts with purple. I've also seen some opaque no-name Rainbos with purple but that's a very vague claim so I didn't mention it and just mentioned the Citrus.

There's the Plum Citrus.

Pretty sure Marble King.

Close. But not slags. And a different spelling. MFC's red marbles were oxblood. The marbles that we would now call a "brick" MFC called them American Cornelian.

In my facebook game, my island has Japanese lanterns that I want to light up. But I don't light them up. They would look pretty for me, but other people visiting my island would see timers on top of them. Sooooo annoying.

I wasn't counting my little furry chickens before they snatched. Of our six earlier family cats before she came into our lives, we only had one who showed much interest in marbles. I always felt badly that I didn't let that guy play with them more. I was hoping that I could make up for it this time around, but you can't force it. This little girl had to discover them on her own. She is the most active and creative toy-player I have ever seen, so I was optimistic. But cats keep you guessing.

Jolly Ranchers! What dental cabal came up with that toothbreaker? Goodnight.

Yep. One shot at the official Wordle word of the day. There's an archive site with old Wordle games from previous days. So you could go there and play all 230 past games in one day if you wanted. And there are other sites that have similar games. Some flat out copies. Some with variations. I play one of those variations -- it's called Dordle. Instead of one word in six guesses, you're doing two words in seven guesses. The explanation is complicated, but it's actually pretty slick once you figure out the rules.

Carry on!