[Rockhounds] Rockhounding Comic now real life.

[Margaret Malm]

Maybe they were Leaverites that he was letting "go home"???

Margaret

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[mailto:rockhounds-bounces at lists.drizzle.com] On Behalf Of Axel Emmermann
Sent: Monday, December 03, 2007 2:01 AM
To: 'Rockhounds at drizzle.com: A mailing list for rock and gem collectors'
Subject: RE: [Rockhounds] Rockhounding Comic now real life.

here's my one plausible explanation: the wife cleaned up and put all of
Larry's precious rocks in a cigar box. Now he doesn't know what is what and
in frustration throws them away...

Don't laugh, these things happen.

We once did a night trip to Plombières, a famous Belgian locality, where
fluorescent calcite, willemite, gypsum and hydrozincite were found. We did
it with home-made lamps in those days. It was Christmas in October.
Everywhere you pointed your UV lamps there was red and green en yellow and
blue... We collected as much as we could carry from the old zinc & lead
mine.
Now, spectacular as they may look in UV, the collected rocks were dirty and
ugly beyond belief.

Some years later the locality was closed and covered with a parking lot. So
we cheered as our little stockpile of rocks actually became worth something.
One of my friends immediately went to his garage to check his "box of
goodies" which he couldn't find... He turned his garage AND cellar upside
down and inside out, still no rocks.
Finally he asked his wife if she knew were they were. "Oh, those ugly dirty
rocks? I threw those away some time ago. There was nothing fancy about those
and I thought you set them aside as garbage." she said. My friend still
mourns the loss of his treasures... The term justifiable homicide comes to
mind, doesn't it?




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> Van: rockhounds-bounces at lists.drizzle.com 
> [mailto:rockhounds-bounces at lists.drizzle.com] Namens Pmodreski at aol.com
> Verzonden: maandag 3 december 2007 3:35
> Aan: rockhounds at lists.drizzle.com
> Onderwerp: Re: [Rockhounds] Rockhounding Comic
> 
>  
> In a message dated 12/2/2007 7:20:53 PM Mountain Standard 
> Time, Kreigh at tomaszewski.net writes:
> 
> http://news.yahoo.com/comics/uclickcomics/20071127/cx_crbal_uc
> /crbal20071127
> 
> 
> hmmmm, Kreigh.... too bad I don't "get it".  Obviously I'm missing  
> something... or maybe it's a Michigan thing to understand the 
> humor...   What the heck 
> are those rocks doing, or is he doing with the rocks...
>  
> oh well...  I'm probably just slow at this,
>  
> Pete
> 
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