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JRogers

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Mar 19, 2002
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I go out on the front steps last night and find a UPS package. It was apparently "discovered" at a UPS "Discovery Center" and returned to the sender because, according to them, it was missing a destination address.

Well, okay, I guess it's good that they sent it back to me. The only problem was that this package was mailed OVER TWO YEARS AGO.

The box looks like it has been through a war. I laughed my a$$ off.
 
BurlyShirley

BurlyShirley

Rex Grossman Will Rise Again
Jul 4, 2002
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TN
WTF? WTF was in the box? You're killing me here. Say it already. Penis pump? 2/3 of Americans use them, Ive heard.
 
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JRogers

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Mar 19, 2002
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jdschall said:
Worlds biggest middle school science fair project volcano?

(there now my chemistry is right...)
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Are you thinking of sodium bicarbonate (baking soda)?

Calcium Carbonate is pretty much as inert as you get. It's used as a nutritional supplement, a filler, abrasive or whitener in a million different products. Usually, you get it from crushing up limestone. Or, in this case, eggshells.
 
DRB

DRB

unemployed bum
Oct 24, 2002
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Watchin' you. Writing it all down.
JRogers said:
Are you thinking of sodium bicarbonate (baking soda)?

Calcium Carbonate is pretty much as inert as you get. It's used as a nutritional supplement, a filler, abrasive or whitener in a million different products. Usually, you get it from crushing up limestone. Or, in this case, eggshells.
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Alright so we aren't blowing anything up with it BUT you shipped 55lbs of it to someone for some reason.....
 
Nobody

Nobody

Danforth Kitchen Whore
Sep 5, 2001
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Toronto
robdamanii said:
Or oyster shells.
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When we had free-range chickens [only for fresh eggs, sir, i swear it!] we used to add crushed oyster shell into the feed mix. It was totally harmless to the chickens [indeed, it aided in the digestion, but that's a boring biology lesson to be learned later] but made the egg shells much stronger.

That way, other free-running chickens wouldn't break open the fresh-laid eggs.

Although it took a few tries to get the mixture right. First batch we had to break open with a crescent wrench, otherwise if you tried to crack it on the side of a bowl the bowl would launch off the counter.

wheeeee!
 
jimmydean

jimmydean

The Official Meat of Ridemonkey
Sep 10, 2001
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Nobody said:
When we had free-range chickens [only for fresh eggs, sir, i swear it!] we used to add crushed oyster shell into the feed mix. It was totally harmless to the chickens [indeed, it aided in the digestion, but that's a boring biology lesson to be learned later] but made the egg shells much stronger.
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We would just crush up the old egg shells. As long as they no longer look like the egg, you're fine. Recycle, it's easy that way.
 
MikeD

MikeD

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Oct 26, 2001
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JRogers said:
Ummm....okay, I'm not making this up....it's 55 lbs of calcium carbonate made from eggshells.
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The only thing that could top that is $249 worth of pudding. (for all you State fans...)
 
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blue

boob hater
Jan 24, 2004
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california
Dude...the things...damn.

When I worked at a UPS Store we'd get packages returned to us all the time since our address would be on packages people would send out. Some would be from months, years ago. We would call the sender, and after six months we were supposed to "destroy" the package (ala open it and keep whatever's inside). We came across some weird crap. Most of the stuff wasn't recovered because it was worthless, not legal to ship, or seemed to be of shady origin:

-Rotting/broken bottles of home-canned barbeque sauces and marinades
-A pound of Canadian pipe tobacco
-Two ounces of homegrown weed declared as "candy"
-A broken diamond polisher
-A Compaq Tablet PC
-Box of pron from the 80s.
-Christmas cards with money/gift cards from a grandmother to her grandchildren and children.

Good stuff.
 
J

JRogers

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Mar 19, 2002
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Claremont, CA
johnbryanpeters said:
I have to ask... How much did it cost to ship, or in this case not ship, 55 lbs of calcium carbonate?
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I have no idea...too long ago. Probably a lot.

By the way, just to explain- my dad used to run a company called Ovogen that sold eggshell calcium carbonate as a nutritional supplement and I helped out part time for a while. This was a shipment to a customer who, apparently, didn't get their product.

Once I was asked in a job interview what the worst thing I ever had to do for a job was. The answer was easy: spend 12 hours shoveling frozen eggshells at a factory in Alabama.
 
Zark

Zark

Hey little girl, do you want some candy?
Oct 18, 2001
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Reno 911
Man, I was thinking of calcium carbide, which is way cooler (mixed with water it produces acetylene, which is flamable);)

Go buy some calcium carbide instead and burn some sh*t!
 
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