Geologists on the loose...

Okay yes I know this is on my Myspace but it's really funny. I did make a few small changes.

How To spot a geologist in the wild, look for:
* Hand-lens, compass, pen-knife, etc. tied around neck with string.
* Ownership of a pet rock (in the case of palaeontologists, this will be their closest friend).
* Takes photos, that includes people only for scale, and has more pictures of rock hammer and lens cap than of their family.
* Someone with collection of geology books that rivals the size of his rock collection.
* Someone who brings beer instead of water when hiking.
* Wears a lot of polar fleece.
* Often has hair in a pony-tail (this applies to male or female geologists).
* Someone who considers a "recent event" to be anything that has happened in the last hundred thousand years.
* Someone who licks and/or scratches & sniffs rocks.
* Someone who eats dirt and claims to be "getting an estimate of grain size"
* Someone who will willingly cross an eight-lane interstate on foot to determine if the outcrops are the same on both sides.
* Someone who can pronounce the word molybdenite correctly on the first try.
* Someone who has hiked 6 miles to look at a broken fence that was "offset by a recent earthquake".
* Someone who says "this will make a nice christmas gift" while out rock collecting.

If you remain unsure, ask the subject to draw an anotated diagram of a trilobite. A true geologist will immediately reach for their waterproof notebook - this is your opportunity for escape.