Back to B.C. by Johnny Hart for December 14, 2019

Now we’re talking.

What? Is “Gibraltar” taken?

Why name rocks, unless they are going to be pets.

I like Stoney Curtis.

Wait! You used that name 5 rocks ago on one with pebble inclusions.

Are you nuts? Do you have rocks in your head?

Does anyone else feel that “. . . is reddish” is enough or does it really require “. . . in color”; as opposed to, I suppose, “. . . in politics”?

Stoney MacStoneface

Yeah, I heard Irving had prominent linear markings…

Rocky II

Or, after the TV rodeo star Stoney Burke, played by Old Stoneface himself, Jack Lord.

If you name the rock Irving, then you can write a ballad about him.

That’s a gneiss name…

Let’s name it “Diversity” and get all the arguments started early…

How about Barnacle Bill, Big Joe, Mimi or Yogi?

How do you know the rock is a he? It could be Rose Quartz.

The 142nd fastest gun in the West.

Irving Peress?