You learn something every day...

Sifting through control docs for the day's output I note this strange business. Has a website and everything...

John Carpenter
The Unconventional Lapidarist

Ever hear of office cubicle prairie-dogging? Having no earthly idea what one was, I walk into J's office.

Clime: Hey, Lapidarists are shady to begin with, and now we're dealing with an unconventional one?!
J: A what?!
Clime: A Lapidarist.
J: What's that?
Clime: Actually, I have no idea.

So the funny part was the chorus from almost every desk out there of "A What?!" and "how's that spelled?", then to walk out and see a dozen or so PC monitors on my walk back to my area displaying various web searches...

Oh, I'm not going to tell you what a Lapidarist is. You'll have to suffer the agony of being ignorant of a word as well, at least for the time taken for 10 keystrokes inside a google search field...