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« on: July 26, 2007, 12:39:54 AM »
I put this picture and a little blurb in another post, but I thought it deserved it's own thread:

In 1869, John Deason and Richard Oats were moving along a muddy road with their baker's cart being pulled along by a horse. The men were gold prospectors in the heyday of Australia's Gold Rush, bringing supplies back to their cabin. Suddenly, the cart lurched and jumped over into the ditch.

With a combination of yelling at the horse and pushing the cart, the two men got the cart out of the mass of Stringybark Roots and mud, but as the wheels started to move, and flash of gold glinted from under the wheel.

Just about three centimeters under the surface was this 13.5 stone (187 Pound) solid gold nugget! They took it back to their cabin and buried it INSIDE their fireplace, until they could decide what to do with it. They finally decided to take it into town and have it weighed.

It was too large fore any scale in town to weigh, so they took it to the blacksmith shop, and had it cut into three pieces, so they could have it weighed.

AMAZING!

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« Reply #1 on: July 26, 2007, 07:39:36 PM »
Well, with all this manure there has to be a pony around here somewhere!

Or something like that.
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« Reply #2 on: July 29, 2007, 10:22:31 AM »
Quote from: Fleamistress on July 26, 2007, 07:39:36 PM
Well, with all this manure there has to be a pony around here somewhere!

Or something like that.

What manure are you talking about?

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« Reply #3 on: July 29, 2007, 09:08:38 PM »
The idea comes from a joke, if I recall correctly.

They were having a manurery kind of day, weren't they?  :-)
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« Reply #4 on: July 30, 2007, 06:08:50 AM »
Yes they were, but you still lost me.

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« Reply #5 on: July 30, 2007, 09:41:22 PM »
Sorry.  I just get real stupid around your extreme handsomeness.
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