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Re:Delightfully strange: Mystery 'golden egg' found on ocean... by adolph on Sunday September 10, 2023 @04:02PM (#37459453)
Chrome coprolite

“A coprolite (also known as a coprolith) is fossilized feces.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coprolite

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Re:Delightfully strange: Mystery 'golden egg' found on ocean... by climb_stealth on Sunday September 10, 2023 @11:01PM (#37462360)
Oh wow, thanks for mentioning this! It makes me appreciate Terry Pratchett even more. I didn't know what the word meant but remembered it was used by the Discworld trolls in some capacity. Turns out it is used as an insult [0].

[0] https://wiki.lspace.org/Coprolite

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Re:Delightfully strange: Mystery 'golden egg' found on ocean... by adolph on Monday September 11, 2023 @09:13AM (#37466761)
Pratchett is fun to read. Thinking of another was it might be said:

Rocky rectal remains

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