Useless Information

Okay all, what's the difference between a ROCK and a STONE? Baby girl has a book that mentions both in the same sentence. Guessing a rock is just bigger?

TirNaNog, I'm going to tell my Irish SIL and my daughter to consider your name for the first daughter, whenever that happens.

Definition of stone from the online dictionary:
a. Concreted earthy or mineral matter; rock.

definition of rock from the online dictionary:
a lump or mass of hard consolidated mineral matter; "he threw a rock at me"

That's a big help, huh?!! Take your pick!! LOL

My dictionary says a stone is "a piece of rock of relatively small size."

Took me a minute to catch up. You are ALL too funny! LOL

Bubba? Very handsome!

cathy4, sending dmail ;)

Going way back to the crickets.....

Did you know that you can tell the temperature by the number of times the cricket "chirps" a minute?

Hap

Did you know that you can tell sex of a cricket by how many spikes are on their tail end?

Females have 3 spikes, males have 2 spikes. Only the males chirp.

More people watched the final episode of M*A*S*H (100 mill plus) than watched this last Super bowl (96 mill) which was the most watched since 1996
(I think I got that right, not sure 1996)
Anyway- was amazed that MASH was such a big deal, altho I've watched puhlenty of it in syndication

Not sure this is a 'fact' but there are no true synonyms (words that mean the same) Every word has nuance.

But I think I use rock and stone pretty interchangeably.

As I think about the rock - stone debate, perhaps it is all about size. In gardening/landscaping we use rock to define borders, but stone to fill in. We have rock gardens. Those little-bitty succulents are called living stones.

In jewlery we have gem-stones, but a really big diamond is call a 'rock'.

Now back to those crickets......very useless information. Why would I need to know a male from a female....unless of course I was a cricket. Still......it just might pop up in a game of Trivial Pursuit.

LOL marie, that's the WHOLE point on the crickets! Useless information ;) I knew it as a kid hunting for bugs so I found it helpful. If you wanted a pet cricket would you want one that chirps all night or not?! LOL!!!!

Rocks are huge.

Stones are small.

Seems to be the general concensus.

You get kidney stones, you can have rocks in your head.

Now see......you're making it less-useless by telling me why you would need that information. LOL To be perfectly honest, I have never considered having a pet cricket, but if I had.....that info would have been usefull.

or lead in your foot.

However......wrestling seems confused. They have 'the Rock', but also somebody called 'Stone Cold ......somebody'.....

It still applies because The Rock is bigger. (Tall-wise)

*snort*!!!!!!

All of that information is useful to someone. As I mentioned, zerk is useless to 99% of people.

Someone who raises crickets to sell for fish bait needs to know about the female cricket having the long spike in the middle. When I was growing up my daddy raised crickets one year. They were a pain in the neck and elsewhere, too. You have to have a big wooden box with a hinged lid and it has to have lights in it to keep them warm in the winter, etc., etc, because you absolutely do not want these critters in a box in your house. An outbuilding is necessary. Absolutely useless information unless you are going to raise crickets. LOL

Did you know that in New Testament times, the population of the Roman Empire was 120 million and half of those were slaves?

Wow. I didn't know that. Did you know that 3/4 of the worlds population died during the Great Bubonic Plague?

i think of stones as aesthetically pleasing rocks.
(well, except the kidney kind.)

marsue,

That's still the way my household is run. 1/2 and 1/2!!! So where's the change in history? LOL

This thread is starting to take some time loading. Should someone start a new thread?

Tir_Na_Nog started the thread so she should be the one to start the new one. Are you out there, Tir?

Okay, Happy--which half are you? LOL

You are welcome to start a new one marie.

Which half of what am I?

Hap

I will end this thread with a reference that I just came across in Metropolitan Home magazine.

The 4th World Naked Gardening Day is May 3rd, 2008.....and they have a web-site which I will not post here because, you guessed it........naked pics. This is really not my sort of thing, but I almost fell off of my chair. To each his own I guess. The following is taken from the front page of their web-site. (I didn't feel the need to actually stay on that site any longer than necessary.)

I hope I haven't offended anyone.....and I thought that by burying this tidbit of information in the Useless thread, that my risk of that would be less. I just had to tell someone!

I've got tell you......IMHO.....sunburn, bug bites, brambles, being an eyesore.....Oh so many reasons to keep myself clothed.

Useless Information Part II is here http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/811487/

Thanks for showing that, Mau. You're right, you don't know what it's like until you have to walk through it and see yours neighbors faces and tears.

And I'm confused on how to do the bold , italics, etc...stuff.

Go over here. http://davesgarden.com/faq/forums/ Lots and lots of FAQ's.