My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic Forum Archive (nuked Western Animation thread)
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#59876
Anypony can eat gems. Digestion is another matter. wink
And Fleur is bestpony.
storyyeller avatar
#59877 from Appleloosa
No, but it appears highly likely that ponies cannot eat gems.
It's pronounced "Te-ah-low-ve"
Rich Reeders avatar
#59878 from The land of Dirt
It's possible diamond dogs may too, since they collect so many, but we've never seen them do it, so...
Can think outside the box, inside the chimney and would really like a Tylenol, thanks.
kegisak avatar
#59879
I think those diamond dogs muct have just been a gang, or something. They probably sold them.

The Freeman avatar
#59880 from Hialeah,FL.
I think it'd be the same as eating rocks for a pony.
No more complaining. No more "Mr. Kimble, I have to go the bathroom". Nothing! There is no bathroom!
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#59881 from Aboard The Damocles
Huh, Rarity would be perfect for making edible underwear for dragons. [lol]

... excuse me while I hit myself "THWACK!"

edited 24th Dec '11 2:10:05 PM by gingerninja666

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Tealove is best pony
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#59882 from Mexico City!
ponies have free food everywhere grin theu just need to eat from the grass

edited 24th Dec '11 2:09:45 PM by FallenLegend

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#59883 from Appleloosa
But they probably don't want to just eat random grass unless they're starving.
It's pronounced "Te-ah-low-ve"
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#59884 from a microwave oven
Yeah, eggs aren't chicken babies, they're chicken periods.
About that.

I don't think any other birds encountered in the wild lay those? Because a swallow would terribly laste her time and resources laying and incubating eggs that will never hatch.

If yes, that's an interesting genetic anomaly, then.

Granted, the only other bird I know that lays eggs massively consumed by humans is Japanese quail.

edited 24th Dec '11 2:11:40 PM by thefran

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Rich Reeders avatar
#59885 from The land of Dirt
[up][up][up][up][up][up]Why would they? Jewels are apparently so common in Equestria they'd have practically no value.

edited 24th Dec '11 2:12:14 PM by RichReeders

Can think outside the box, inside the chimney and would really like a Tylenol, thanks.
Applelight Limited avatar
#59886 from Manehattan to Canterlot
Is it really two weeks to the next episode? sad
Tealove is best pony.
gingerninja 666 avatar
#59887 from Aboard The Damocles
[up] It's christmas, Apple. What's there to be sad about? [lol]
"Schneizel! So you ARE the puppet master behind all this!" - Lelouch Lamperouge

Tealove is best pony
thefran avatar
#59888 from a microwave oven
Jewels are apparently so common in Equestria they'd have practically no value.
They have, like, a LOT of them. And you know what else is common IRL? Diamonds.


Another thing. Anyone familiar with Western jewelcrafting clasification?

Russian classification, heavily based on the traditional Ural one, divides everything used by jewelcrafters in two categories: precious and craftable, with massive amounts of groups inbetween.

As in, you have precious stones like diamonds, craftable like jade and onyx, and then something more precious than craftable like saphhire, and more craftable than precious like quartz.

edited 24th Dec '11 2:17:16 PM by thefran

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#59889 from Manehattan to Canterlot
[up][up] .....no new pony for Chirstmass. sad

edited 24th Dec '11 2:14:15 PM by ApplelightLimited

Tealove is best pony.
The Freeman avatar
#59890 from Hialeah,FL.
Maybe they just like staring at them.

Or something.
No more complaining. No more "Mr. Kimble, I have to go the bathroom". Nothing! There is no bathroom!
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#59891 from Aboard The Damocles
[up] Yeah, maybe the DD are just like high functionng magpies or something
"Schneizel! So you ARE the puppet master behind all this!" - Lelouch Lamperouge

Tealove is best pony
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#59892 from Eastern US
Diamonds are common here, but in Equestria, anyone can go out and literally dig in their backyard (much less than a day trip from Ponyville, in "A Dog And Pony Show") and find massive gems. There's no pony De Beers, after all. =)
Can you think inside the chimney?
Applelight Limited avatar
#59893 from Manehattan to Canterlot
Fantasy Dwarfs lust for gold for no other reason than a desire to have it...it's been descibed as being similar to a dying man in the desert gasping for water...maybe D Ds are the same for diamonds?
Tealove is best pony.
thefran avatar
#59894 from a microwave oven
There's no pony De Beers, after all
Well, yeah. That's the main difference.

anyone can go out and literally dig in their backyard
Not everyone can actually find those.

edited 24th Dec '11 2:20:12 PM by thefran

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#59895 from Aboard The Damocles
And yet... the Fire Ruby

Rarity all but Creamed her non-existant pants upon seeing it. Clearly some gems are still insanely valuable
"Schneizel! So you ARE the puppet master behind all this!" - Lelouch Lamperouge

Tealove is best pony
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#59896 from Appleloosa
There's also the fanon suggested earlier that the DD are really enslaved by a dragon to gather food.
It's pronounced "Te-ah-low-ve"
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#59897 from The Moon
I would say gems are prolific but not common. I get the feeling that Rarity's gem finding spell is well...rare (no pun intended). Anyone can go dig for gems, but there is never any guraente they will find them, that's why the Diamond Dogs wanted Rarity so much, she could assure they would find gems.

Some gems might also be common and worth more then others. Say...a diamond is found once every ten rubies (or something).

edited 24th Dec '11 2:21:15 PM by LMage

thefran avatar
#59898 from a microwave oven
[up]

Truth.

Rarity has an absurdly long ranged gem-finding ability, too. Like, ridiculously long.

I think Twilight Sparkle can find gems around herself much more effectively, but she won't be able to keep it up all the time or find gems across the whole Equestria.

Say...a diamond is found once every ten rubies (or something).
Yeah. Probably there are no precious stones, but our precious stones are semi-precious I, semi-precious I are semi-precious II, semi-precious II are craftable I etc.

Serpentine is pretty much literally like cobblestones there.

on second though, truth in television for Ural!

edited 24th Dec '11 2:25:28 PM by thefran

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#59899 from Aboard The Damocles
[up][up] The gems really weren't buried that deep, a simple excavation of any scale would be able to find them quite simply. They even come in clusters by the looks of it

edited 24th Dec '11 2:23:13 PM by gingerninja666

"Schneizel! So you ARE the puppet master behind all this!" - Lelouch Lamperouge

Tealove is best pony
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#59900 from Inkster, MI
... I wonder if there would be a pony Nando's. I bet Pinkie Pie would be their best customer, always ordering the X Sauce.
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