In a message dated 3/7/2007 5:41:01 A.M. Pacific Standard Time, [email protected] writes: http://www.gravestonestudies.org/ In response to Brock Way's comments, I shall make none. However, regarding the Shaving Cream messages I would like to say this: While I have never used shaving cream on a tombstone and no doubt ever will. I do know shaving cream leaves a long lasting stain, if not an etching, on cement. When my son was in high school, his then girl friend wrote on our cement walkway a loving message in shaving cream. That message could still be seen at more than five years later when dry. It is good they are still friends because it still comes through when hosing down the walkway and that was more than ten years ago. I don't know what brand of shaving cream she used but it must have been powerful. Linda R.F. Arnold Menifee, California <BR><BR><BR>**************************************<BR> AOL now offers free email to everyone. Find out more about what's free from AOL at http://www.aol.com.

If by "a stain", you mean "a clean spot(s) surrounded by less-clean areas", then I suspect what you say is true. Obviously shaving cream does not dicolor tombstones in this way, or people wouldn't use it, and pictures would abound like the case you describe where people could show pictures of tombstones discolored only over the lettering, and not on the uninscribed areas. In fact, if this were the case, someone would have simply performed the experiment and published the resulting measurements for all to see...then there would be no debate at all about it. The reason this has never been done is because the whole notion is a hoax. Brock Way --- [email protected] wrote: > > In a message dated 3/7/2007 5:41:01 A.M. Pacific > Standard Time, > [email protected] writes: > > http://www.gravestonestudies.org/ > > > > In response to Brock Way's comments, I shall make > none. > > However, regarding the Shaving Cream messages I > would like to say this: > > While I have never used shaving cream on a tombstone > and no doubt ever will. > I do know shaving cream leaves a long lasting > stain, if not an etching, on > cement. When my son was in high school, his then > girl friend wrote on our > cement walkway a loving message in shaving cream. > That message could still be > seen at more than five years later when dry. It is > good they are still > friends because it still comes through when hosing > down the walkway and that was > more than ten years ago. I don't know what brand > of shaving cream she used > but it must have been powerful. > > Linda R.F. Arnold > Menifee, California > <BR><BR><BR>**************************************<BR> > AOL now offers free > email to everyone. Find out more about what's free > from AOL at > http://www.aol.com. > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email > to [email protected] with the word > 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and > the body of the message > ____________________________________________________________________________________ Sucker-punch spam with award-winning protection. Try the free Yahoo! Mail Beta. http://advision.webevents.yahoo.com/mailbeta/features_spam.html