That's frikkin hillarious crash.
The whole time I'm reading your story, all I can think of is Kevin Costner in 13 Days.

A good friend of mine is a prof at Harvard and we speak almost weekly on phone, so I'm used to your guys messed up ways of talking.
I've got it down, took me a while, but I got it, LOL

When I call him, I always say
"Can I speak with Mawk please?"

 

None of those up in your neck of the woods are there 36? LOL! Gotta love glaciation.

 

You bought a rock.

And put it in your yard.

 

if i did all that my wife would say, "i wonder what it would look like if we moved the rock 7 inches to the left?"

looks good, good thing about rock is you dont have to weed, mulch, water or mow them!

 

Not just a rock ............ a really, really, big and heavy rock!

My freind's yard was entirely covered with slate slabs that were commonly used for curbs and sidewalks at the turn of the century. We busted them up with a 25 pound sledge and used the erratic pieces to build a 3 foot high circular shaped garden around the old willow tree in his yard.

It came out great and his wife kept on praising and complimenting on how nice it looked. But the truth is we were really inspired because we did'nt want to hump all that stone through the low basement and up the stairs to the curb outside. :o

 

RP isn't the only geologist on the boards - just the geolgist that's on the boards the most!

Uhh - just a couple. My wife even know what glacial striations are and what caused them!

A couple years ago I read an article about some Earth Science graduate student at Purdue that was trying to use cosmic radiation dating on the faces of minerals on the exposed surface of erratics to better date the glacial advances/retreats in the midwest - the last I heard it wasn't coming along to well because most of the erratics had been moved by farmers, exposing a different face to solar radiation, which gave dates WAYYYYYY to young.