Turtle: Hey Mom; did you hear about the new terra preta enthusiast who used a fired-clay brick to hammer their charcoal into bits?
Mother Nature: No Turtle; how'd that work out?
Turtle: Well, it broke up the charcoal just fine, but the enthusiast got some bad cuts on the hands trying to pick out the clay shards.
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semantics is not always just pedantic quibbling. ~ douglas r. hofstadter
