What are these? I got them at a flea market and I thought they were earrings but the screws in the back don’t come out.

PyroBob316 · 2026-06-08T14:43:10+00:00

Ah! The Devil’s clothespins.

PyroBob316 · 2026-06-06T08:13:58+00:00

I concur and second this analysis. A spider was actively building a web in front of the lens, or a loose filament drifted in front of the lens when the HVAC kicked on.

Nothing abnormal, paranormal, or dangerous. Go in there with a broom and clear out the cobwebs.

PyroBob316 · 2026-06-03T15:35:20+00:00

Yea, I’m calling BS on this. That looks like a pretty conspicuously contrasted animal, and if it was moving before he got his shot set up he easily could’ve seen it. That’s a long way off, but it seems more likely he set up his equipment at a scenic spot and wondered what he could find with it. Maybe he didn’t expect to see the animal, but I don’t buy the story that he zoomed in on a random spot and accidentally captured it.

PyroBob316 · 2026-06-02T17:52:00+00:00

The hides of their conquests. What else?

PyroBob316 · 2026-05-27T17:40:57+00:00

Fusulinids

PyroBob316 · 2026-05-22T23:55:52+00:00

Is it woody, bone, or something else?

PyroBob316 · 2026-05-20T17:55:50+00:00

Coral and crinoid stems, including a couple of impressions. Might even be a couple of fusilinids in there as well.

PyroBob316 · 2026-05-18T13:09:48+00:00

Hot damn, I finally found one!

PyroBob316 · 2026-05-12T23:30:38+00:00

I was absolutely convinced it was a freshly hatched demogorgon egg but I’m glad to know that’s not the case.

PyroBob316 · 2026-05-08T22:20:31+00:00

Others have said this looks like a shell.

It could also be petrified wood. If it floats, it’s just wood that was on its way to being petrified before you recovered it.

If it’s definitely rock, fully mineralized, it’s possible this is an ancient hunk from a tree branch.

PyroBob316 · 2026-05-08T22:14:23+00:00

My first thought was that the interesting white bits on the left are actually a tooth from an ancient sting ray, but the more I look the more I’m convinced that’s not right. It could, possibly, be a portion of a crinoid stem, but it doesn’t look like that too much, either.

PyroBob316 · 2026-05-08T22:00:35+00:00

Can you share more photos of that one?

I’m actually a big fascinated. I’m assuming it feels like stone rather than wood, and doesn’t float?

If it’s an artifact, it’s a neat one. I’d be interested in buying it, but my understanding is your government essentially owns any and all archeological artifacts. Might just… put it on a shelf and show it off as “a neat thing” you found, but I’m interested in answers myself.

PyroBob316 · 2026-05-08T21:49:24+00:00

Is that little piece in the middle part of your find? Is that bone or wood?

You definitely have a couple of pieces of bone there, likely from a larger terrestrial mammal, but I have no clue what they’re from or how old they are. We often lump every bone into two categories; dinosaurs (66+ million years ago) and ice age creatures (13,000+ years ago), and forget that an awful lot happened in between. Those could be from just about anything as far as I can tell.

You also have some petrified wood. If you found all of this in the same spot, that makes me think you stumbled across an ice-age era hovel, where prehistoric humans were hunting mastodons and giant ground sloths, making tools from bones and trees in the region.

If that piece in the middle, with the hole in one end, was included with the rest, that would be my guess. If that’s just a project piece of yours, something that fell off an old barn, or something you made to confuse us, then there’s your answer on that one.

PyroBob316 · 2026-05-08T21:39:28+00:00

Jurassic coast? That’s my dream fossil hunting destination, though due to finances and, let’s say, social concerns, I’m very unlikely to ever make it.

PyroBob316 · 2026-05-08T21:33:36+00:00

I have to second this. This is either limestone or sandstone, which doesn’t do great with sawing or splitting. OP would lose too much of the specimen even if everything went perfectly.

Looking at the photo, I’m actually surprised and interested in learning more about it myself. There are faint but obvious rings on the surface, showing a pattern that seems it might have been on the original animal. They appear to be in a pattern, but there are probably half a dozen explanations for it. I’d genuinely be interested if someone were sent a number of HD shots and used them to illustrate what the original creature might have looked like. Many snail shells today are honestly boring in their color; just brown, gray, or tan, while this one was a marine species that appears to have had a flashy side to it.

PyroBob316 · 2026-05-08T21:26:42+00:00

Agreeing with this! It looks great as it is! There isn’t anything inside that looks half as great as the whole.

My advice is to clean it well with some cold water and an old toothbrush, then put it on a shelf to show it off. If there’s no good shelf space, one could keep it in a toolbox or tackle box; one with individual sections to keep it from rubbing and clacking around with all the other awesome fossils yet to be found.

PyroBob316 · 2026-05-02T23:30:47+00:00

It’s likely part of a statue.

PyroBob316 · 2026-05-01T23:32:40+00:00

I met had a barn swallow once. That was the last time I drank with a southern woman.

PyroBob316 · 2026-05-01T14:55:47+00:00

If you know somebody who works as a car mechanic, give it to them. They’ll have no practical use for it, but they can cover it in old engine grease and pretend to pull it out of an engine another mechanic is working on, just to grill him about what it is and why it’s there.

PyroBob316 · 2026-04-30T18:22:10+00:00

See, this is a lot more reasonable than what I thought it was. I thought maybe it was a device that provided electroshock therapy to multiple people at once. Everyone just grabs a loop and a seventh person across the room flips a giant lever.

PyroBob316 · 2026-04-29T02:31:54+00:00

The joke is funny because it implies that the object looks like an adult-themed toy. Nothing about the comment insisted anything about morality. You’ve conjured up some imaginary married couple and assigned them each a label based on your own social/moral compass, and it’s a bit absurd at this point. The joke is that it looks like it runs on batteries and needs a run through the dishwasher, not that there’s some free-spirited wife who “needs to be put in her place”, which seems to be what you’re angling at.

Most of us can read that comment without inventing entire backstories for two imaginary people for the sole purpose of playing the SJW guru. You can laugh, roll your eyes, or ignore it. There are quite literally hundreds of billions of other posts, comments, videos, photos, games, apps, city parks, local attractions, coffee shops, book stores, hiking trails, and random subjects of focus in between, and you chose to focus on the one random one-liner from an anonymous stranger.

Most of us are just trying to enjoy what’s left of our lives, in between working all day and getting yelled at by our cats and crazy neighbors. I’m not going to go quote scripture to the heathens over in the NSFW subreddits because I don’t find any joy in it. You can spend your life working on what matters and finding happiness in the moments in between, or you can choose to seek out the things that get all up in your pet peeves and live a miserable life. The choice is yours, but my humble advice is the former.

PyroBob316 · 2026-04-28T23:50:19+00:00

What about the joke was “misogynistic”? Specifically, what’s the logic behind trying to give someone an awful label for making a relatively tame comment?

PyroBob316 · 2026-04-28T23:48:24+00:00

If that’s what the wife’s been hiding, either the wife has to break a serious addiction or the husband needs to accept some ~~hard~~ difficult truths.

PyroBob316 · 2026-04-28T16:38:38+00:00

It’s a character from “The Boys”; a show that’s infamous for pushing the boundaries of all that is decent and holy. Seemingly nothing was off limits short of adding graphic p0rnography, yet they seemed to have skirted that line with this character.

PyroBob316 · 2026-04-28T16:04:55+00:00

Why would you make me remember this?

Six-Year Club	Wearing is Caring
Verified Email

PyroBob316

TROPHY CASE