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Origins of Blarney Stone Revealed
sciencehabit writes "Kissing the Blarney Stone, which involves hanging upside down from the battlements of Blarney Castle near Cork in Ireland, is meant to bestow eloquence and persuasiveness. Such claims are not known to have been put to the test in a clinical trial, but then not much is known about the rock itself. Some say it is made of Welsh bluestone, the same material used to make the monoliths of Stonehenge. Others say it was cleaved from the Stone of Scone, which forms the coronation seat used by the kings and queens of Scotland and Great Britain for hundreds of years. Now, some light has finally been shed on the stone's mysterious origins by the chance find of a microscope slide in the Hunterian Museum of the University of Glasgow in Scotland. Analysis of the sample, which is cut thin enough to be transparent, by geologists at the museum reveals that it is not a bluestone, nor is it sandstone like the Stone of Scone. In fact, it is a 330-million-year-old carboniferous limestone typical of that corner of Ireland and contains fragments of fossilized brachiopod shells and bryozoans."
The stone's powers come from it being like the others there. That sure sheds a lot of light on that.
I always laugh when i see idiots kiss the stone. When drunk, the locals have a habit of urinating on it.
So according to The Fine Article ...
Those who want to kiss the stone should basically go "Kiss Our Shiny Fossilized Asses"?
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Wrong! It has been 2014 years and 3 months (obviously!)
Not to be confused with the "Scone of Stone", which can be purchased at O'Callaghan's Deli down the road.
Top o' the morning to you all and fuck the pope, to be sure to be sure.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
It is amazing to find out you can work out what something is made of by looking at it rather than inventing a semi-mystical explanation. This science thing might just catch on.
How do you slice a stone so thin that it becomes transparent?
I have enough trouble with blocks of cheese.
People are willing to allow a complete stranger to hold them while they slide over the side of a 90-foot wall in order to share in the bacteria and viruses of thousands of others on the oft change they'll be given the ability deceive people without offending them.
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All the myths around it's special origins was just a bunch of Blarney.
Maybe, but how old was the clay he used?
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Carboniferous? A living rock that only eats carbon? Quick, hide your BBQ briquettes!
for clearing that up for us.
The magic of the Blarney Stone isn't what it's made of, it's the fact that you have to hold your body over a very tall drop in order to kiss it. It's one of those thing where after you do it you're supposed to be thrilled to be alive, and presumably have something to talk about.
Of course these days it has been ruined by some metal bars that make it impossible to fall off of the castle and die.
I read the internet for the articles.
Just like a pearl forms around a bit of grit, the Blarney Stone was formed over thousands of years as drunk Irishmen all pissed on the same spot. At least, that's my theory on its origin.
If you knocked down Blarney Castle you would have Blarney Rubble.
I know a lot of Chanelr ornaments made of many beautiful stones. Like the seventeenth Century king!
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About the only thing you're going to get bestowed on you from kissing that rock is a scorching case of Herpes.
I once met a girl out near Blarney
Whose Mom worked as some kind of a carny
And so says my miss
The locals would piss
Ensued then quite a bit of hilarity.
Set your phasers on "funky"!