BF Contest!!! Win a Free, Razor Sharp, Very Old "Knife"!!!

Megalobyte

Megalobyte

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Hi everybody, most of you already know i sell high-end fossils for a living, primarily fossil shark teeth. Well, i got to thinking that i have gotten an awful lot out of BF and all who contribute, and i thought i might do something nice to repay the kindness i have found here.

So, here is the deal. I have chosen a very high quality, 10 million year old fossilized Megalodon shark tooth, truly a razor sharp, fully serrated "knife", albeit made by nature, and not man, its about 3.65" long, and 3" wide, for scale, the largest tooth ever found of a modern Great White was just 2 5/8", and the average size of a GW tooth is just 1.3-1.4". The Meg tooth is extremely sharp, and fully serrated, it also has a very pristine tip serration, in short, i decided to offer a decent tooth, not something i just wanted to get rid of, and trust me, i have lots of stuff id like to get rid of. I would price this tooth at about $175 on my WS, so, the prize being offered is a fairly serious one, and most definitely, a very COOL one that i think any knife nut will appreciate. After all, these teeth are nature's finest knives. :)

So, here is the contest. I will ask a question, the first to post the answer in this thread wins. BUT!!! If you post your answer in this thread, you MUST not edit your post, if i see any response in the thread thats been edited, you are disqualified, because somebody could, in theory, be the first to respond, but not have the correct answer, then edit the post later to include the correct answer, and obviously thats not fair, so, again, any response that has been edited is invalid and i'll go to the next unedited answer. So, post your answer, make sure its exactly what you want to say and dont edit the post.

OK, here's the question...

In the movie Jaws, Hooper (Richard Dreyfuss) finds a Great White tooth embedded in the hull of a boat, when he is describing how big the tooth was to the town's mayor, he compares the tooth to what? He says something like: "..a Great White tooth the size of a <blank>"

Fill in the blank, be the first to post it and you win an even bigger tooth than the one Hooper is talking about, thats also about 10 million years old, and belonged to the largest, fiercest super-predator that ever existed, Charcarocles Megalodon.

Good luck. :)
 
"I pulled a tooth the size of a shot glass out of the wrecked hull of a boat out there, and it was the tooth of a Great White."

I was just one minute too late ;-( Congrats JamesA

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Carl
 
Man, you guys are FAST!!! And, in all of about a minute, the prize has been won. I didnt think it would go that quick, to the winner, a question, did you know the answer, or did you use a search engine to find it? Be honest, you win either way. :)

Hmmmm, that was too fast, so, let me think for a moment, well, OK, since im out about $175 already, why not dig an even deeper hole, so, here is a bonus prize and question. The prize is a 2 million year old or thereabouts fossil Great White tooth, about 2" or so, sharp, serrated, colorful, very neat specimen, worth maybe $50 or so retail.

The question is going to be harder on this one so it doesnt go too fast. Same rules apply as before, NO EDITING OF POSTS!!!

Ok, there is a scene in Jaws where "Quint" (Robert Shaw), "Brody" (Roy Scheider) and "Hooper" (Dreyfuss) are talking about the prospective charter of Quint's boat to hunt for Jaws, they are inside of Quint's shop, the one with all the shark jaws all over the place. In this scene, there is something technically inaccurate, a mistake, but, only if youre pretty knowledgable about sharks will you know this one, in fact, im pretty sure nobody will get this one, but i want to make this one difficult since my first question which i thought was relatively obscure, turns out to be less so than i thought.

I will be VERY impressed if anybody gets this one. :)

[Edited to add] Oh, and of course, im looking for a specific mistake, the one that I'm thinking of, if in fact there are more than one, and you list a diffferent one, i applaud you, but only the one mistake that im thinking of wins the prize. Sorry, i cant give away my entire inventory! :)

Congratulations though to the winner, email me so i can get your address.
 
I've seen about ten minutes of Jaws, a couple years back. It just happened to be that ten minutes -- lucky for me, looks like. Did a quick web search to verify it.

Mostly it was just being awake at 3:03 in the morning, I think. Right place, right time and all that.

Thanks a bunch, pal. E-mail incoming.
 
OK, fair enough, but you realize youre like the guy who plays the lottery one time and wins... :) Ill bet there are a lot of guys who have seen Jaws many times and know that line by heart, but you won because of that 10 minutes. :) Ill check my email and try to get it out this week.

And yes, i agree that its a right place, right time thing, but what can i say, i get inspired and apparently generous very late in the evening when my wife is fast asleep and nobody to talk to except the dog... :)
 
Hmm, I'll hazard a guess. Is it that the jaws that Quint lifts from the solution aren't naturally stuck together in a ring? In other words, they'd fall apart into at least two sections after the borax soaking.
 
The Indianapolis sunk on July 30, 1945 and NOT on June 29, 1945 as Quint said
 
Dang...I guess that my guess of an aircraft carrier would have been wrong anyway...:D.
 
OK, i give up!!! You guys are too friggin smart and quick. Now, while Alphalpha wasnt exactly correct, he definitely had the right idea and concept, so im going to have to award him the prize, much as it pains me to have both of my raffles end so quickly and with so little drama. :) Jeez, i thought id have a little more fun with my $225 bucks! :eek:

In Jaws, they are clearly giving you the impression that you boil shark jaws in a solution to clean them, when in fact, and i have this on very good authority, boiling a shark jaw in any sort of liquid will dissolve the jaw and the teeth will just all fall out. In real life, the jaws are soaked in a weak peroxide solution for a bit to clean them and make them and the teeth white.

So, unfortunately for us all, but fortunately for the lucky 2, this contest is over. if i ever offer anything similar in the future, im going to think long and hard and come up with a BASTID of a question! :p

I have spoken with James, so, Alphalpha, please email me for your prize.

And, to end this round, let me just say: "I'm talkin' 'bout workin' for a livin', I'm talkin' 'bout sharrrkin'!" Anybody care to guess who said it, and no, you dont win anything...
 
Some very cool and interesting stuff on your website!

I'll probably end up buying a Great White tooth from you sooner or later. Off topic, but any idea how I could turn one into a pendant or a part of a necklace? Thanks.
 
WOW! I won something!

And to think I haven't actually watched all of Jaws, I only watched 30 minutes containing that scene. :)

Thanks for the contest! Email sent.

BTW, those are some beautiful fossils on your site. I've had a passing interest in fossils as a kid, I still have some trilobites and a 6 inch ammonite fossil lying around in a shoebox somewhere.
 
Originally posted by wolfmann601
The Indianapolis sunk on July 30, 1945 and NOT on June 29, 1945 as Quint said
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Well, Ira, i didnt know that, and if you are correct, then it is another mistake in the movie, but its not the one i was looking for, and im pretty sure that the discussion of the ship sinking was in the scene on the boat and not in Quint's shop. Sorry. :)

I may do this again sometime, but i promise you all, the question will be TOUGH! I thought these were tough, so ill make the next one so tough, a Strider couldn't cut into it! :)
 
Originally posted by Megalobyte
OK, i give up!!! You guys are too friggin smart and quick. Now, while Alphalpha wasnt exactly correct, he definitely had the right idea and concept, so im going to have to award him the prize, much as it pains me to have both of my raffles end so quickly and with so little drama. :) Jeez, i thought id have a little more fun with my $225 bucks! :eek:

In Jaws, they are clearly giving you the impression that you boil shark jaws in a solution to clean them, when in fact, and i have this on very good authority, boiling a shark jaw in any sort of liquid will dissolve the jaw and the teeth will just all fall out. In real life, the jaws are soaked in a weak peroxide solution for a bit to clean them and make them and the teeth white.

So, unfortunately for us all, but fortunately for the lucky 2, this contest is over. if i ever offer anything similar in the future, im going to think long and hard and come up with a BASTID of a question! :p

I have spoken with James, so, Alphalpha, please email me for your prize.

And, to end this round, let me just say: "I'm talkin' 'bout workin' for a livin', I'm talkin' 'bout sharrrkin'!" Anybody care to guess who said it, and no, you dont win anything...
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Quint says this.

Another trivia question, not shark related though. What annual meteor shower is evidenced at night on the water?

Another good one would be; What is the make/model of Hoopers wristwatch?

Yet another;What is the license plate number on the sheriffs jeep?

No prizes for these either ;)

Cheers

GC
 
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