BUDDHIST-INCANTED YAK TOOF
Yesterday evening I was at the Tibetan Store on MacDougal looking for some Buddhist Monk Chanting sounds, when I came across a large tooth, root-set in silver, a charm for a necklace. I asked the shop owner what kind of tooth it might be. He was printing out invoice sheets in case a customer happened to purchase an out-of-stock item. He showed them to me and I said "They look professional," meaning like e-bay professional. Everyone and their grandma can print up passably "professional" invoices these days. The shop owner said that the tooth had most likely once belonged to a yak, or some other four-legged animal. This looked to be true and stands to reason, since the store is Himalayan-themed. I tried to remember the word "ungulate," to describe the generic type of creature from which the tooth came, but I couldn't at the time. The word "ungulate" always reminds me of my friend Ben Hale. The charm is $28, so I'm gonna have to round up my Chinese buddies and invade that shit