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What Is It? for 2/28/2014

Posted February 28, 2014 12:00 AM

What is this stuff?

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02/28/2014 12:21 AM

Failed popcorn; maybe it fell off a ceiling.

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02/28/2014 3:34 AM

It's the MRI I recently got of my wrist bones.

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02/28/2014 5:03 AM

Incense?

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02/28/2014 7:04 AM

ie Resin incense, or church incense.

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02/28/2014 5:13 AM

crystallized ginger

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02/28/2014 9:56 AM

I agree Bricktop!

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02/28/2014 5:21 AM

A worrying step in MRE.

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Re: What Is It? for 2/28/2014

02/28/2014 6:51 AM

KrisDel wallpaper paste.

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02/28/2014 7:28 AM

Well that's the last time you get our special Autumn discount. Your problem if you didn't read the 'sell by' date. We have some spare wallpaper that Napoleon rather liked.

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02/28/2014 7:38 AM

Bath salts.

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02/28/2014 7:47 AM

Well I'm not going to tell admin you said a naught word .

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02/28/2014 1:34 PM

I owe you one.

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02/28/2014 7:41 AM

Rice Krispie Treats?

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02/28/2014 9:01 AM

last weeks Cauliflower

plain bacteria in a HW tank under 125f, saving energy

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02/28/2014 1:18 PM

Cleaning material that gets put in a hot melt glue system. Used to clean out the system.

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02/28/2014 3:39 PM

Would that be head cheese or toe cheese?

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02/28/2014 7:38 PM

kefir...

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02/28/2014 10:45 PM

- My dog's breakfast, just before she eats it for the SECOND time......

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Re: What Is It? for 2/28/2014

03/01/2014 12:14 AM

Gallbladder stones...

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Re: What Is It? for 2/28/2014

03/01/2014 8:03 AM

Copal

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Re: What Is It? for 2/28/2014

03/01/2014 11:48 AM

Very rare substance, seldom found anymore.

It used to be called "Elbow Grease"

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Re: What Is It? for 2/28/2014

03/01/2014 11:58 AM

If you mean the white stuff, it comes from birds.

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Re: What Is It? for 2/28/2014

03/02/2014 9:29 AM

I don't know what to call it but it looks like some little baked crumbs that are the finish on some mass produced, baked, donuts, there is a trace of the powdered sugar. Entenmann's comes to mind, they call them "Crumb Donuts":

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03/02/2014 9:58 AM

Hungry?...put your glasses on....lol

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03/03/2014 8:37 AM

That's over my head, I even dislike those donuts.

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03/03/2014 9:58 AM

Get thee to a County Faire, that is Funnel Cake, the deadliest and tastiest confectionery known to science.

You take a batter that is made from equal parts doughnut, waffle, pound cake and the soul of an innocent child, pour it through a funnel (hence the name) into a vat of trans-fats and all the vices of Las Vegas, heated to the same temperature as the Third Ring of Hell. It cooks instantly. Scoop it out onto a paper plate (which will immediately turn transparent from the absorbed oil, don't worry, there's still about twenty gallons of oil left in the funnel cake itself) sprinkle with powders sugar to hide the sin from God, and eat while still hot.

Warning, do not eat two funnel cakes in a single day, your arteries will harden like rock and then shatter if you try to move or breathe.

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Re: What Is It? for 2/28/2014

03/03/2014 7:41 PM

I think it is the The Andromeda Strain

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03/06/2014 3:43 PM

Maple sugar candy

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03/18/2014 4:44 PM

Looks like Rice Krispies to me, too.

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03/02/2015 9:13 AM

Funnel cake found under a merry go round at the fair.

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03/12/2015 8:25 PM

Can't smell it from here so it could be frankincence also known as olebanum or some other natural tree resin like mastic. S.M.

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Re: What Is It? for 2/28/2014

03/13/2015 6:50 AM

Coprolite.

Or Emu or Ostrich droppings.

Possibly another large bird.

Notice the gravel from the gizzard,and the urea(white) deposits.

Or possibly the contents of a bird's gizzard.

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