[Jewelry making - Article 00483] - [Orchid] [Tidbits] Don't Ask.

[Benjamin Mark]

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    Don't Ask. 

    Okay. Here's what it says. It says: Lalaounis. It says: Yellow Gold
    Pendant and Choker. It says: Neolithic style. It's says: 22 karat
    gold. It says: Hammered texture. 

    So let's start with Lalaounis. What is Lalaounis? A description? A
    name? A thing?  A bird? A plane? A cat? A dog? A belt? A shoe? A
    jewelry museum in Greece? Bingo! It's the museum. Puzzle number one
    ... solved. Puzzle number two is more complicated. 

    This necklace ... this choker you're about to see ... what is it?
    What does it represent? What symbolistic archetype can we draw from
    the image of this choker? 

    A baseball bat perhaps? Does it represent a baseball bat? Nah. They
    weren't playing baseball in those days. A cucumber maybe? A tapered
    cucumber with a little design around the middle? Nah. What woman in
    her right neolithic mind would wear a cucumber around her neck? Nary
    a one I would venture. A pestle with a design? Did they have drug
    stores back then? Better yet ... did they have pestles? Scratch
    pestle. I'm wracking my brains out here folks. It ain't a pestle. It
    ain't a cucumber. It ain't a baseball bat. So now we all know what
    it ain't. It's what it is is what we want to know. 

    A rocket ship? Nope. That's ridiculous. The fickle finger of fate
    ... all fancied up perhaps? Well ... I feel close. But that ain't it
    either. A stick maybe? A branch of a tree with a rounded end? A door
    knocker? The bone of an ancient and extinct creature ... thought to
    bring luck to the wearer? Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. 

    A nothing maybe? A design with no purpose ... wrought from a strange
    artist's mind. Nah. All things have purpose ... however arcane those
    purposes may be. Let's think here lads and lassies. Any help would
    be appreciated. What indeed could this choker symbolize? 

    A club ... with which to bash an enemy's head?  A strange cane with
    a strange handle to remind the wearer of sadder days gone by? A
    golden misshapen tootsie-roll with licorice wrapped around the center
    and preserved in gold for posterity? Yeah. Right? Like they had
    tootsie-rolls back then. So then ... if none of the above ... then
    what? 

    I am at a loss here folks. I invite friends and foe to guide me. Let
    me know what you think this doo-dad hanging from this choker
    represents. Yeah. Heh heh. Tell me what you think it looks like ...
    why don't you? 

    For those of you who are new to this thing called Tidbits...may I
    direct you to my home page at www.tyler-adam.com where you will
    scroll down the left side menu till you get to the area that says
    Tidbits Graphics ... and then click on the link that says: Don't ask
    ... where you will see a  graphic of a choker symbolic of .... 

    And there ya have it. That's it for this week folks. Catch you all
    next week. Benjamin Mark 

TYLER-ADAM CORP.--Jewelry Manufacturers
Tel -- 1-800-20-TYLER
E-Mail: webmaster AT tyler-adam.com

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