# The inventor of the Pet Rock has died **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 1, 2015, 11:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-inventor-of-the-pet-rock-has-died/716485 "2015-04-01T11:01:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Rick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9f8e36/32.png) [@Rick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2015, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-inventor-of-the-pet-rock-has-died/716485/21 "2015-04-02T00:37:05Z")
I had one. I taught it to sit and stay. ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2015, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-inventor-of-the-pet-rock-has-died/716485/22 "2015-04-02T01:23:50Z")
I bought a cheap knock-off from Junior Achievement. I have an excuse though – I was young and trying to get over on the one girl in that “company”. ---
**Author:** ![joyfool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2015, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-inventor-of-the-pet-rock-has-died/716485/23 "2015-04-02T01:26:32Z")
Mine could roll over. Only pet I’ve ever had that could. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2015, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-inventor-of-the-pet-rock-has-died/716485/24 "2015-04-02T03:44:37Z")
They should build a cairn on his grave. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2015, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-inventor-of-the-pet-rock-has-died/716485/25 "2015-04-02T04:02:13Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > They should build a cairn on his grave. You mean like [this](http://www.dogsculpture.com/CrnImages/CrnLifOut1Net.jpg)? ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2015, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-inventor-of-the-pet-rock-has-died/716485/26 "2015-04-02T13:48:56Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > You mean like [this](http://www.dogsculpture.com/CrnImages/CrnLifOut1Net.jpg)? No, the first definition. ---
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2015, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-inventor-of-the-pet-rock-has-died/716485/27 "2015-04-02T14:04:19Z")
My pet rock had the mange. Bad. It was bald. Like George Castansa bald. Like George Castanas’s blind date bald. Bald Jerry. BALD! I got some Chia seeds and fixed the little fella right up though. ---
**Author:** ![swampspruce](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampspruce/32/261_2.png) [@swampspruce](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampspruce)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2015, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-inventor-of-the-pet-rock-has-died/716485/28 "2015-04-02T14:12:25Z")
Thanks **AD** , while I am sad for Mr. Dahl’s family I will now have “I burn they dog” stuck in my head the rest of the day; or life. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2015, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-inventor-of-the-pet-rock-has-died/716485/29 "2015-04-02T14:51:56Z")
> [@faithfool](#): > > Mine could roll over. Only pet I’ve ever had that could. I had a pet rock once. Took him down to the swimming hole one day. Skip didn’t even make it all the way across. ---
**Author:** ![rocking\_chair](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocking_chair/32/2918_2.png) [@rocking\_chair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rocking_chair)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2015, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-inventor-of-the-pet-rock-has-died/716485/30 "2015-04-02T23:11:19Z")
i have a lovely usb pet rock (thinkgeek). he keeps the computer at work company when i’m not there. ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2015, 7:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-inventor-of-the-pet-rock-has-died/716485/31 "2015-04-03T07:00:11Z")
> [@nastynaven](#): > > i thought god invented the pet rock. I suppose you think he invented them just 6000 years ago too. Wrong! Rocks _evolved_ through a process of natural selection. Once they became domesticated and people made pets of them, then breeders went on to develop the many breeds of pet rocks that are known today. ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2015, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-inventor-of-the-pet-rock-has-died/716485/32 "2015-04-03T13:02:50Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > Maybe mourners will leave those California Beach Rocks stacked on his gravestone. In other news, the Catholic inventor of the Pet Flower has died, as has the Chinese Confucian inventor of the Pet Bowl of Crack Seed, Pack of Cigarettes and Bundle of Burning Joss Sticks. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-inventor-of-the-pet-rock-has-died/716485.md?page=1)