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Yes, but how do you predict when this Pet Rock fad will end?

The original lasted six months, long enough to make it’s creator a millionaire.

I think this one started after New Hampshire and has a few more months to go.


3 posted on 03/09/2008 12:44:09 PM PDT by D-fendr (Deus non alligatur sacramentis sed nos alligamur.)
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My advice would be to make the pet rock talk issues, especially ones of a foreign policy nature. He’s already peaked.


6 posted on 03/09/2008 2:02:15 PM PDT by Baladas
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I had a wild rock, found it in the creek. I kept it in a cage.

After the craze, I let it go.


7 posted on 03/09/2008 2:04:40 PM PDT by bert (K.E. N.P. +12 . Never say never (there'll be a VP you'll like))
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I was only in grade school when the pet rock thing hit. It was gone before I even knew what was going on. As I remember, it was only the teachers that got into it, and they made their own...painted faces and glued googly eyes onto them, and felt to the underside, then used them as paperweights.

Part of the reason why I never got into it was that at that time I already had a rock collection. I had fossils, minerals, all kinds of stuff. It seems like my most prized possession was a dinosoar gizard stone. It was given to me by a college professor that was a friend of my dad’s. I have no idea how someone determines if a rock was actually in a dinosaur’s gizard at one time. The last thing I wanted to do was paint a stupid face on the rocks I had in my collection.

So, how did the inventor make his millions when everyone was making their own pet rocks?


10 posted on 03/09/2008 2:17:46 PM PDT by mamelukesabre (Quantum materiae materietur marmota monax si marmota monax materiam possit materiari?)
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