Pat Flannery wrote:
Scott Hedrick wrote:

Just what in hell possessed the first person to try it? I mean, just what
were the conditions that allowed someone to notice?


Well... a goatherd was mixing a Martini...and he was out of
olives....and then this goat coughed up a hairball....

Remember, it was a *calcified* hairball; those are the ones that
*don't* get coughed up.

(I have recently learned that horses have stones, also -- and again,
nowhere as pretty as the oyster's pearl -- these are more like
geodes!)

/dps