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Also makes wonderful jewelry.
Excellent present for a loved one who doesn’t know what coprolite is.
“Your honor, if it is true that you are what you eat, then my client is an innocent man!”
Some years back, while working as a counselor at a science camp, one of the campers decreed that I and one of the other counselors should get married. So at the end of the week, I “proposed” to her with a ring made from pipe cleaners and a coprolite. She knew what it was, and appreciated it.
I guess you can polish a turd.
Wasn’t that part of a Mythbusters episode?
When I was living in my old town, the Catholic high school was vandalized, to the tune of about $100,000 in damage, by several local teenage boys, not all of whom attended that school. One of the, ahem, incidents was someone defecating on a teacher’s desk (and my co-workers who attended that school joked about which teachers’ desks THEY would have, well, you know, had they had the chance). The culprit was identified through DNA, and then tried to say it was his twin brother, who had also been arrested for this, but he couldn’t get away with it because they were not identical.
If he’d paid more attention in school, he’d have known that wouldn’t work.
Thanks for the informative answers, everyone.
Before easy DNA testing was a thing, scientists used to look through poop for bits. For instance one team identified the hairs in lion scat to prove that they were eating chimpanzees.
I can’t imagine that would have featured in many people’s answers to “What do you want to be when you grow up,?”
Just like being the head of a government, the rule should be “never give this job to someone who wants it”