They might go on to harder things.

Like limestone, marble, and quartz.

And if he goes on to diamond, then there's no turning back.

Yea, because a Tums addiction in the making is a real serious problem...

Hooooop-scotch.
It is my life -
and it's my wife.
When I put some chalk onto my tongue,
I tell ya, things aren't quite the same.
When I'm hopping on my run,
and I feel just like Jesus' son.
And I guess that I just don't know.
Texaco, Texaco, over the hills of Mexico.

Needs counseling 'cause you're doing it wrong.
Grind it up and snort it.

I was in the library one day in highschool, and one of my friends took a piece of chalk, grinding it into powder, then cut a line out and snorted it with a rolled up bill.

he did it for attention, but no one noticed.

i found this hilarious.

Eating chalk...
the very image of it is disturbing as hell to me. I keep picturing the whole fingernail-on-chalkboard kind of thing going on in my mouth.

Get this image out of my head. Now.

It's the paste-eaters you really have to be afraid of.

The faces of chalk:

People still eat chalk/kaolin...

Uhh, don't be fooled by the doughnut.

I used to sell chalk, but I had to quit after that possession of Pixie Sticks charge. I just can't risk it anymore.

"But an Education Department spokesman denied the playground chalk incident was drug-related."

Quit reading right there. Non-story.

/Thread is still amusing, though

Thank goodness they can't sniff papers from a mimeograph machine anymore!

Don't most people that eat rocks/dirt have a mineral deficiency? They probably should have called the pediatrician instead.

Finally, another thread! My god, won't someone think of the liters?

and undoubtedly sensitivity reeducators were on standby just in case anyone did laugh at the kid, and its off to the sensitivity camps...

I ate chalk once...

It was shaped like a ice cream cone...

skinink: This is your brain:

This is your brain on chalk:

Any questions? Then Google for Julian Beever

His work would be cool if it wasnt for all the product placement.

y'all i hate to point this out so late but the article says year five students, not five-year-old students!

"Figures from the NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research show that in the past three years, police have recorded 766 public and private school children as persons of interest in drug crime during school hours. The figures include 74 drug incidents in government primary schools."

Maybe there is a bit of reason for concern, after all.

/But I'm sure it has nothing to do with what passes for TV entertainment these days.
//Kids aren't affected by what they see on TV.
///Are they?

kilgorn: People still eat chalk/kaolin...

Anybody who drinks a McDonald's milkshake is getting their daily dose of kaolinite.

I used to eat chalk frequently when I was a youngster. On some days it toook all my will power to wait just 5 minutes before heading back for more. I even used to pick apart the ceiling and snack on that. When I was around 10 I remebered how I used to do this and tried it again. It didn't taste as good as I remebered.

They should have just called Supernintendo Chalmers...

tummmmm tum tum tum tuuuuuuuuummmmmms

teacher or professor giving you a hard time? Grab their blackboard chalk and drill a small hole straight down from the writing end, insert a match, and fill the hole with a blend of chalk dust and glue. Put the chalk back and watch the panic when smokes starts to spew.

Pica

Year 5 /= 5 year old. It means a Fifth grader

jeffbujass: I used to eat chalk frequently when I was a youngster. On some days it toook all my will power to wait just 5 minutes before heading back for more. I even used to pick apart the ceiling and snack on that. When I was around 10 I remebered how I used to do this and tried it again. It didn't taste as good as I remebered.

I believe thats a sign of vitamin/mineral deficiency

Did someone say "eating chalk"?

czarangelus

I used to eat whole chunks out of styrofoam cups. I liked how chewy it was...


Good thing you kicked the habit. I recall a medical case of eating too much styrofoam was described in the "Straight Dope" or similar column. A woman had little hard white balls removed from her stomach because they were causing her pain. It was from her styro habit. Not everything passes out of your stomach.

\Kind of like pearls but not valuable

Hello educators and parents everywhere:

If you lay on a prohibition too thick, it will make some kids want to do it even more.

Ooh check it out!
Polystyrene bezoar in a patient with polystyrenomania

Sadly I couldn't find any pics.

Egalitarian: Hello educators and parents everywhere:

If you lay on a prohibition too thick, it will make some kids want to do it even more.

Right. We should probably cut back on all the anti-tobacco programs too. And those Surgeon General warnings might as well be a big ol' "Double-dog dare ya!".

Zulgaines: Uhh, don't be fooled by the doughnut.

dude... that ain't chalk.

Asclepius: Pica

Elite.

TheGreyPiper: Egalitarian: Hello educators and parents everywhere:

If you lay on a prohibition too thick, it will make some kids want to do it even more.

Right. We should probably cut back on all the anti-tobacco programs too. And those Surgeon General warnings might as well be a big ol' "Double-dog dare ya!".

Actually...I started smoking at 21 right as the anti-smoking hysteria was kicking into high gear. It just got so irritating that one day I went into a 7-11 on my lunch break and bought a pack of cigarettes. Guess what? I kind of liked it so I kept doing it. After a few years I quit for a year, then started back up during a weak moment.

Promise you that if you tell any random group of under-25's that if they smoke they wont live past 50 half of them will start the next day just to make sure of it.

/31 now. Here's to ten years of making nights at the bar even more enjoyably self-destructive.

Egalitarian
Hello educators and parents everywhere:

If you lay on a prohibition too thick, it will make some kids want to do it even more.

I always thought schools were doing it wrong with their anti-drug education. Sure it's great to get Policeman Bob or if we were lucky, an actual professional athlete telling us not to do drugs, always a lot more fun than some lame assembly with folk dancers. It would have been a lot more effective to get some 45 year old burn out living in Mom's basement to come in and talk about whatever topic for 45 minutes and then spend the last 15 minutes talking about their drug use.

/I work with a couple of guys whose brains are like silly putty even though they both have been clean/sober for about 5 years. They would be PERFECT.
//Especially the one who has a number of FASCINATING conspiracy theories about government mind control.

Snarfangel: They might go on to harder things.

Like limestone, marble, and quartz.

You win the thread.

czarangelus: I used to eat whole chunks out of styrofoam cups.

You do realize that, from now on, this is going to be posted in any thread wherein you start your usual shenanigans.

Or, at least i hope it does.

Driver: Thank goodness they can't sniff papers from a mimeograph machine anymore!

Ah, those were the days...

That and airplane glue.

I used to be a "chalk" miner so I'm really getting.... old.


Cat-637E (22 cubic yard payload)

Driver: It followed another episode at the same school involving three other students who turned in creative writing assignments featuring a fictional "drug island" and football stars Ben Cousins and Andrew Johns, who were involved in public drug battles.

Wow, that sounds like an awesome assignment. What's a drug battle? Did the two football players each try to inject more steroids than the other? Or did they get in a big swordfight with giant syringes? Newspaper reporters always leave out the good parts.