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Geology Humor

You can't be a geologist if you don't have a sense of humor... so here are a few things to make you laugh at yourself and your future profession.

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You Might Be a Geologist If ...

You own more than half of the "Roadside Geology" book series.
Your rock collection occupies more shelf space than your family photos.
You can pronounce the word "molybdenite" correctly on the first try.
You don't think of "cleavage" the same way everyone else does.
You have ever uttered the phrase "have you tried licking it" with no sexual connotations involved.
You have ever used the phrase "dropping acid" to refer to something other than drug use.
Your map for your next roadtrip is marked with the locations of a series of interesting road cuts.
You find yourself compelled to examine the gravel in other people's driveways.
You are willing to cross eight lanes of freeway traffic on foot to see if the outcrop on the other side of the highway is the same type of rock as the one on the side you're parked on.
You have ever intentionally taken a 15-passenger van (preferably containing more than 15 passengers) over "roads" that were intended only for cattle.
You consider a "recent event" to be anything that has happened in the last hundred thousand years or so.
You have ever had to respond "yes" to the question, "What have you got in here, rocks?"
You get upset when movies have glaring geological inaccuracies, and point them out to everyone else in the theatre (*cough*Dante's Peak and Volcano*cough*).