OT: I found my monster! (pet rock content)

[CampyorBust]

Painted this little guy years ago, then he wandered off and went missing, now I find him in a pile of rocks bare as the day he first wandered in! Sweet! Actually he is a Desert Yeti. He is a good monster, for the most part benevolent and very misunderstood. I will have to bring him back to life...

http://i77.photobucket.com/albums/j49/PedalPusher33/DesertYeti_zpsg0sfl4jm.jpg

[Black Dog]

So, this post could tie in nicely to the "what ya bin Drinkin'" thread. :beer:

[Birddog]

So, this post could tie in nicely to the "what ya bin Drinkin'" thread. :beer:

Or "What is this SRAM tools purpose"?

[texbike]

I thought about adopting this one this past Summer. However, he looked happy being out on the Olympic Penninsula, so I left him there... ;)

Texbike

[echelon_john]

Huh. You have way more than 30 posts already... ; )

[CampyorBust]

So, this post could tie in nicely to the "what ya bin Drinkin'" thread. :beer:

Totally

I thought about adopting this one this past Summer. However, he looked happy being out on the Olympic Penninsula, so I left him there... ;)

Texbike

Nice!

Huh. You have way more than 30 posts already... ; )

Alas my pet rocks are not cycling related, at least not yet.;)

I call this one... :rolleyes:"Oh Kylo"

http://i77.photobucket.com/albums/j49/PedalPusher33/ThillyKylo_zpshztftc5u.jpg

[Louis]

Gary Dahl, "inventor" of the Pet Rock, died in March of last year: http://nyti.ms/1Ge4tEG

http://static01.nyt.com/images/2015/04/01/us/01dahl-1-obit/01dahl-1-obit-master675-v2.jpg

[CampyorBust]

Gary Dahl, "inventor" of the Pet Rock, died in March of last year: http://nyti.ms/1Ge4tEG


Oh man sorry to hear that, a man way ahead of his time. I wonder if he was related to Roald Dahl? If so, genius surely runs in the family.

[CampyorBust]

A few more…

http://i77.photobucket.com/albums/j49/PedalPusher33/IMG_2710_zpsumbeh0v3.jpg

http://i77.photobucket.com/albums/j49/PedalPusher33/IMG_2709_zpsvm7vwoc8.jpg

http://i77.photobucket.com/albums/j49/PedalPusher33/IMG_2705_zpsjcwzjywn.jpg

This lame thread will soon pass on, I am just building up to the crescendo, almost there.

[cinema]

I find this really inspirational.

[Louis]

This lame thread will soon pass on

Not lame at all. Merely confirmation that humans will anthropomorphize just about anything.

My favorite example of this is the videos of those "Big Dog" robots built by some company in the Boston area. In one of them a robot is negotiating a difficult hilly, rocky terrain when it stumbles - whenever I see that portion of the video (which overall is pretty cool) I can't help but feel "sorry" for it.

[hummus_aquinas]

"A pet rock is a fun pet until you realize that it's essentially immortal and you've damned it to an eternity of watching its loved ones die"

some guy on twitter

[Louis]

Perhaps, but that assumes that they don't consider people like CorB to be evil kidnappers who take a rock away from its true family and keep it in a sterile, mind-numbing environment.

It's actually pretty cruel, if you think about it. Even worse than Sea World.

FREE THE PET ROCKS !!!!

[CampyorBust]

Meet Susanna…

http://i77.photobucket.com/albums/j49/PedalPusher33/IMG_2803_zpsnrshxco9.jpg

https://youtu.be/fnc70nT3DKo

While I’m name dropping Celentano, anybody remember Ornella Muti? Sometimes I wish I was born Italian.

This one is a double feature! A Skeksi or an alien…

http://i77.photobucket.com/albums/j49/PedalPusher33/IMG_2823_zpsqmm8sbel.jpg

http://i77.photobucket.com/albums/j49/PedalPusher33/IMG_2822_zpss6fqarl8.jpg

Weird I am finding more scowling faces than smiling ones.

[CampyorBust]

FREE THE PET ROCKS !!!!

Sorry, I enslaved them, for eternity!:D

http://i77.photobucket.com/albums/j49/PedalPusher33/IMG_2679_zpsfzhimbbx.jpg

[Louis]

Not only have you enslaved them, you've also disfigured some and horribly mutilated others. One of these days, when their cousins come looking for them, you'll pay the price for your cruelty.

I know you don't believe me, but here are some examples of what's happened to other rock-nappers. Your time will come, when you least expect it.

http://img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2008/05_04/FlattenedCarG_850x649.jpg

http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/660/media/images/72644000/jpg/_72644320_020843727-1.jpg

[Louis]

BTW, if you ever visit LACMA I suggest you not push you luck and do this - the San Andreas Fault is not that far away...

http://41.media.tumblr.com/6c6d6a2078d662498a855cd5ca66620e/tumblr_mg9tj1y53k1r1thfzo5_1280.jpg

[BumbleBeeDave]

This thread rocks!

:banana:

BBD

[rounder]

Do not have a pet rock but might as well have.

I go to Maine coast every year. My wife always says to bring back rocks...so I do. They are all over the place. On the front steps, around the front garden, around the deck, all over the place inside the house. We got lots of rocks.

[Louis]

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/19/01/a7/1901a7399d3431a73c8e0d655ef2a1ab.jpg

[CampyorBust]

Well you could also say I brought them into the light. (pinky mouth emoticon please, found it)http://i77.photobucket.com/albums/j49/PedalPusher33/6a00e54ee37895883300e55456890f8834-800wi_zpspvmeou5w.jpg

http://i77.photobucket.com/albums/j49/PedalPusher33/Fuddwocks_zpsdprllsx1.jpg

http://i530.photobucket.com/albums/dd341/whoistheunknowndj/thelmrsesn.gif

I sheet you not those stone hearted PFETOR (people for the ethical treatment of rocks) folks tried a preemptive strike a little while ago. Gaia is of a different opinion, she intervened and surrounded me by two cliffs, a bit of an open sesame moment just the opposite and with rock cliffs.

http://i77.photobucket.com/albums/j49/PedalPusher33/IMG_0196_zpss8qwrenb.jpg

I always frequented the J. Paul Getty and Norton Simon more often, but LACMA cool too, alas oh California, la la la la…

https://youtu.be/7IZ-jATBq9A

Well I took your advice and set the rocks free. As they seemed in hurry to go anywhere I think it safe to assume they are rather fond of being here with me. They are always free to come and go as they please, I am a benevolent dictator.

[Louis]

Well I took your advice and set the rocks free.

Even Aron Ralston would agree with this.

http://www.theage.com.au/ffximage/2004/10/22/23n_ralston_narrowweb__200x296.jpg

[CampyorBust]

Do not have a pet rock but might as well have.

I go to Maine coast every year. My wife always says to bring back rocks...so I do. They are all over the place. On the front steps, around the front garden, around the deck, all over the place inside the house. We got lots of rocks.

Yup Maine has some choice rocks, also some amazing road biking and gravel munching in Acadia!

[Black Dog]

Do not have a pet rock but might as well have.

I go to Maine coast every year. My wife always says to bring back rocks...so I do. They are all over the place. On the front steps, around the front garden, around the deck, all over the place inside the house. We got lots of rocks.

haha. Same here, my wife has an obsession with rocks. She collects them everywhere and they are all over the house and yard. :help:

[CampyorBust]

http://i77.photobucket.com/albums/j49/PedalPusher33/IMG_3171_zpsqyzr8zmo.jpg

I keed but imagine my surprise when I turned the corner. :eek:

http://i77.photobucket.com/albums/j49/PedalPusher33/IMG_3163_zpsk52tqmvo.jpg

[Louis]

I told you!

And that was just a warning.

[Jaq]

https://youtu.be/EQG3I5efwWo

[CampyorBust]

https://youtu.be/EQG3I5efwWo

lol, I am going to have to watch that movie now.

I like this one a lot...

https://youtu.be/Lg2dqFCU67Q

[CampyorBust]

http://i77.photobucket.com/albums/j49/PedalPusher33/IMG_4669_zpshe8wwp8m.jpg:banana: