Help needed, simple sharktooth pendandt lost..

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Valdemar

July 17, 2011, 08:37:17 AM
Hi guys,

I have a bit of a strange request.

My youngest used his allowance while we were in Corsica last week to buy a necklace with a sharp tooth pendant.

the tooth was attached by a string of silver wire wrapped around it. Unfortunately the silver wire only made a hook, rather than a loop or a ring. And so, while running to the car today it must have slipped of. No amount of search has unearthed it, and he is devestated :(

I've tried a google search, I mean, how much can a tooth pendant on a 5 euro necklace cost?

But I can't seem to find it on google, only fossils.

So, if anyone more savvy on the net or with a local tourist shop nearby can help me out I'd be extremely grateful

V

Slargos

#1
July 17, 2011, 08:50:22 AM


And I just need a million dollars. :w00t:

mongers

#2
July 17, 2011, 09:17:06 AM
Quote from: Valdemar on July 17, 2011, 08:37:17 AM
Hi guys,

I have a bit of a strange request.

My youngest used his allowance while we were in Corsica last week to buy a necklace with a sharp tooth pendant.

the tooth was attached by a string of silver wire wrapped around it. Unfortunately the silver wire only made a hook, rather than a loop or a ring. And so, while running to the car today it must have slipped of. No amount of search has unearthed it, and he is devestated :(

I've tried a google search, I mean, how much can a tooth pendant on a 5 euro necklace cost?

But I can't seem to find it on google, only fossils.

So, if anyone more savvy on the net or with a local tourist shop nearby can help me out I'd be extremely grateful

V

Not as devastated as the shark was.  :hmm:

Maybe take this as an opportunity to show him that these trinkets belong in the living animal rather than as a tourist trinket or folk/witchcraft potion ?
"We have it in our power to begin the world over again"

Valdemar

#3
July 17, 2011, 09:22:11 AM
Quote from: mongers on July 17, 2011, 09:17:06 AM
Quote from: Valdemar on July 17, 2011, 08:37:17 AM
Hi guys,

I have a bit of a strange request.

My youngest used his allowance while we were in Corsica last week to buy a necklace with a sharp tooth pendant.

the tooth was attached by a string of silver wire wrapped around it. Unfortunately the silver wire only made a hook, rather than a loop or a ring. And so, while running to the car today it must have slipped of. No amount of search has unearthed it, and he is devestated :(

I've tried a google search, I mean, how much can a tooth pendant on a 5 euro necklace cost?

But I can't seem to find it on google, only fossils.

So, if anyone more savvy on the net or with a local tourist shop nearby can help me out I'd be extremely grateful

V

Not as devastated as the shark was.  :hmm:

Maybe take this as an opportunity to show him that these trinkets belong in the living animal rather than as a tourist trinket or folk/witchcraft potion ?

Bah, this was a "surfer neclace" not even sure it was real, and they landed a few sharks on the piers everyday, and they certainly had no need for their teeth :)

V

Razgovory

#4
July 17, 2011, 09:22:44 AM
Sharks lose their teeth naturally.  They constantly fall out and are replaced by new ones.  The shark teeth probably where just found on the beach somewhere.

"Shark tooth necklace" brought up a lot of hits on Google image.
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017

grumbler

#5
July 17, 2011, 09:24:50 AM
Quote from: mongers on July 17, 2011, 09:17:06 AM
Not as devastated as the shark was.  :hmm:

Maybe take this as an opportunity to show him that these trinkets belong in the living animal rather than as a tourist trinket or folk/witchcraft potion ?
I doubt very much that the shark was living, and if you mean Valdy to try to spin some tail about an undead shark tracking down the person wearing its tooth (and thus that his kid was lucky to lose it), I think the kid is too young for that.  :cool:
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Bayraktar!

mongers

#6
July 17, 2011, 09:31:12 AM
Quote from: Valdemar on July 17, 2011, 09:22:11 AM
Quote from: mongers on July 17, 2011, 09:17:06 AM
Quote from: Valdemar on July 17, 2011, 08:37:17 AM
Hi guys,

I have a bit of a strange request.

My youngest used his allowance while we were in Corsica last week to buy a necklace with a sharp tooth pendant.

the tooth was attached by a string of silver wire wrapped around it. Unfortunately the silver wire only made a hook, rather than a loop or a ring. And so, while running to the car today it must have slipped of. No amount of search has unearthed it, and he is devestated :(

I've tried a google search, I mean, how much can a tooth pendant on a 5 euro necklace cost?

But I can't seem to find it on google, only fossils.

So, if anyone more savvy on the net or with a local tourist shop nearby can help me out I'd be extremely grateful

V

Not as devastated as the shark was.  :hmm:

Maybe take this as an opportunity to show him that these trinkets belong in the living animal rather than as a tourist trinket or folk/witchcraft potion ?

Bah, this was a "surfer neclace" not even sure it was real, and they landed a few sharks on the piers everyday, and they certainly had no need for their teeth :)

V

Here you go:
http://www.reuters.com/article/2008/06/11/us-sharks-idUSL1073282220080611

Quote
Mediterranean shark numbers drop dramatically

ROME | Wed Jun 11, 2008 4:30am EDT

(Reuters) - The number of sharks in the Mediterranean has fallen by 97 percent in the last 200 years, putting the sea's ecological balance at risk, a report released on Wednesday said.

The report, by the Washington-based Lenfest Ocean Program, used records such as fishermen's logs, shark landings, museum specimens and visual sightings to estimate the number and size of the Mediterranean sharks over the last two centuries.

There was only enough data on five of the 20 big shark species present in the Mediterranean to be useful to the study -- the hammerhead, thresher, blue and two species of mackerel shark, which averaged a decline of 97 percent.

"It will have a major impact on the ecosystem because large predatory sharks are at the top of the food chain," said Francesco Ferretti, the report's lead author.

Losing the top of the food chain can mean smaller fish thrive and consume more of their prey, upsetting the ecological balance. "If we lose these sharks we are going to lose this important portion of the ecosystem functioning," said Ferretti.
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"We have it in our power to begin the world over again"

grumbler

#7
July 17, 2011, 10:12:59 AM
Careful, Valdy; Mongers leads by four full points in this non sequitur contest, and you are going to have to make a truly irrelevant post to even tie.
The future is all around us, waiting, in moments of transition, to be born in moments of revelation. No one knows the shape of that future or where it will take us. We know only that it is always born in pain.   -G'Kar

Bayraktar!

Martinus

#8
July 17, 2011, 10:20:57 AM
It depends. What amount of xp and gold do you offer for finding your daughter's necklace?  :hmm:

Valdemar

#9
July 17, 2011, 10:47:13 AM
Not daughter, son, and not alot, I just feel sorry for him..

V

Barrister

#10
July 17, 2011, 12:49:30 PM
I tell you what Valdy (if this will help):

I don't know squat about shark's tooth necklaces, but I have bought a few wolf, coyote and bear tooth or claw necklaces in Whitehorse (handmade by local Indians), and given them to various kids.  They seem to like them.  I'm heading back to Whitehorse in a week (for just a few days) so if you PM me a mailing address I'd be happy to send you one.

Now that doesn't help you right now, since  it probably won't arrive for a month, but if it would help I'd be happy to do it.  :)
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Strix

#11
July 17, 2011, 08:23:31 PM
Quote from: Martinus on July 17, 2011, 10:20:57 AM
It depends. What amount of xp and gold do you offer for finding your daughter's necklace?  :hmm:

Don't fall for it. You'll have to kill at least 1,500 sharks because it's a rare drop.
"I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left." - Margaret Thatcher

Razgovory

#12
July 17, 2011, 10:23:50 PM
I don't think the shark populations are declining because of teeth harvesting.  I'm not sure they even harvest teeth.  They just wash up all over the place.  Fuck, I've found shark teeth in Missouri, so really, they are fucking everywhere.  Sharks go through thousands of teeth in a life time.
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017

Strix

#13
July 17, 2011, 10:33:44 PM
Quote from: Razgovory on July 17, 2011, 10:23:50 PM
I don't think the shark populations are declining because of teeth harvesting.  I'm not sure they even harvest teeth.  They just wash up all over the place.  Fuck, I've found shark teeth in Missouri, so really, they are fucking everywhere.  Sharks go through thousands of teeth in a life time.

This is very true. There is a beach in Florida (names escapes me) where people find prehistoric shark teeth all the time.
"I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left." - Margaret Thatcher

Eddie Teach

#14
July 17, 2011, 10:45:26 PM
Quote from: Strix on July 17, 2011, 08:23:31 PM
Don't fall for it. You'll have to kill at least 1,500 sharks because it's a rare drop.

:lol:
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