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Rock Collection

In a dark, damp, moldy basement were large cabinets full of sparkling geodes, formations, and giant cylindrical core samples of solid rock, from the geology department of the university I assume.
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hehe, i woulda nicked a small sample of each...y'know start a nice collection at home :P
Tommeh!!!
Tue 05-09-2006
Come on, Tommeh, you know how that always ends in the horror flix! ;-)
Lynne
Tue 05-09-2006
Yea, the 'greedy' one always "gets it" first!! : O
Cool find, Motts...Makes me wonder where they got the core samples from...
Tony C.
Tue 05-09-2006
Man, I wish I could see these in person.
Richard
Tue 05-09-2006
can you immagine being the office junior in the geology dept at the university?

"just pop over to the store room and get me the third tray down, would you? take a torch tho, it's dark over there"

"....um...okay"

*resigns*
surly girl
Tue 05-09-2006
Haha my uncle, who is a geologist, would find this place interesting.
Charisma
Tue 05-09-2006
When I took geology in college, they had a wooden cabinet like this in the room full of all kinds of rocks. I think this would be very interesting to look at. (Yeah, I like looking at rocks and stuff.)
Weird place to store this kind of thing though.
sugar_magnolia
Tue 05-09-2006
I wound't have been able to help it I would have taken one just as a momento.
Johnnsy
Tue 05-09-2006
Bet some of those are valuable. If motts took all the valuable stuff he finds in these old places he'd be rich!
Tom
Tue 05-09-2006
Rich or in jail. ;-)

At least he could bail himself out . . . .
Lynne
Tue 05-09-2006
why would these be down in a dark basement???
Joe
Wed 05-10-2006
Our Geology lab was just like this. The drawers look too familiar.

We were in the temporary building that year though.
StareGirl
Wed 05-10-2006
i think you are right! the old geology techer would come back to the grave to haunt me until i return the stones...or just to steal my soul and bring himself back...like on the Hellraiser films.
Tommeh!!!
Wed 05-10-2006
Hmm... Could it be... URANIUM ORE!

If your toes start to glow in the dark, you've discovered Uranium...
Bill Romjue
Tue 05-16-2006
I thought I had stumbled into Uranium once, because something else was glowing in the dark! Turns out, it was a glow in the dark condom! :D (Do you know how hard I'm holding back a Uranus joke???)
Dr Sketch
Tue 05-16-2006
Oh, Dr. Sketch, please don't hold ANYTHING back!!
Janice
Tue 05-16-2006
one thing should be held back Dr. Sketch...your bad jokes :)
Joe
Wed 05-17-2006
Yeah. That was certainly a sketchy joke :P
morta
Sun 08-06-2006
who wants to have a rock fight
dwan from youngstown,oh
Mon 11-13-2006
Rock on. Rock on.

Hey! Who put the universe in the dresser again?
Racheybachey
Tue 11-27-2007
That's odd.

Do you think specimens where a little heavy for the one shelf?
Guitorman
Tue 01-22-2008
Why is everything still there? Did they just forget to take everything with them or something?
KahunaTony
Sat 06-28-2008
as a geologist, i probably would have poked around at the rocks. i bet you are right, though, he univ probably just stored them. i cannot see the headmaster of this place allowing the people housed there even begin to think they should learn anything...
tlak
Sat 07-19-2008
i love these pics of stuff left behind. it always amuses me. its like they were told "ok you have a half a day to get out or else"
opal
Fri 05-08-2009
huh, I only got to purge old duplicate maps from library drawers.
STL girl
Mon 12-14-2009

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