re: #69 Dark_Falcon

No, its a very old saying. At the founding of the soon-Athenian-dominated Delian League “lumps of iron were thrown into the sea, as a sign that the alliance was pledged to last until the Iron floated up again”.

Source: Larry Gonick, “The Cartoon History of the Universe”.

Yes. I was just having a Rosie fire-melting-steel moment.