This week’s Conversation Starter — a phrase you can use to start a conversation with anyone, anywhere, and maybe also to end that conversation immediately, is:
“The Sharkey is a Vertisol and can be classified as a member of the very-fine, smectitic, thermic Chromic Epiaquerts.”
The phrase is the opening line from a December 8, 1997 report by Michael J. Vepraskas [pictured here] and J. L. Richardson, Co-Chairmen of the Sharkey Committee.
(Thanks to investigator Tom Gill for indirectly bringing this to our attention.)