[Rockhounds] fossilized soft tissue etc...

[Axel Emmermann]

Hello J.R.

Coprolite from a Fossil Butt? Must have made a grinding sound on its way
out?
I trust this was unintentional wordplay? Am I the only one to notice this...
I tried to ignore it but it was like a carrot dungling (oh yeah, pun
intended, no typo's here ;-) before my nose. Ouch, laughing still hurts
;-)))

Wet and windy here... No snow yet.
The only squeeze marks here are around the politicians throats... Nearly 6
months after election and we still don't have a government. Hilarious...
We're twice the size of greater L.A. and we're stuck between two languages.

Cheers

Axel



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> [mailto:rockhounds-bounces at lists.drizzle.com] Namens J. R. Hodel
> Verzonden: donderdag 6 december 2007 13:59
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> Onderwerp: [Rockhounds] fossilized soft tissue etc...
> 
> Hi all:
> 
> Axel, you're breaking me up on the cartoon.  For what it's 
> worth, that particular cartoon rarely makes total sense to 
> me, so an armed coprolite works just fine for me.
> 
> Way back in 1991 Martha and I visited the Green River 
> Formation area of SW Wyoming, Fossil Butte National Monument, 
> etc.  We were in a rock shop near there, run by a coal miner 
> and his wife, when we heard the miner shout from the back of 
> the shop, "Honey, you should see the coprolite I found this 
> morning!  It's so perfect!  It even has squeeze marks!"
> 
> His wife was totally embarrassed and said "I'm sorry, you'll 
> have to excuse him, he's just a coal miner!"  Then my wife 
> said, "That's OK, I'm a coal miner's daughter" and I chipped 
> in with "My GrandDad was a miner, and my brother put himself 
> through college by mining for a couple of years."  Which just 
> added to her embarrassment.  It (her blush) was a beauty.  
> The copro was sweet too.
> 
> Anyway, on to geology: I saw a photo of remnant skin of this 
> newly revealed beauty, and the scales were hexagonal and the 
> size of your thumbnail!
> 
> The story had a quote to the effect that they could be sure 
> there were stripes in the skin, and mentioned that current 
> day scaled animules with stripes were usually brightly 
> colored.  The skinks that skitter up my stucco everyday have 
> stripes, and they're neon irridescent!  Imagine a 
> giantneon-blue-green-red irridescent 35-ton monster running 
> through the primeval forest with fernish trees thrashing one 
> way and the other.  Imagine running yourself right behind 
> because A Carnivore was chasing the shiny giant!!
> 
> It snowed here yesterday, then turned to rain in the evening 
> to create slush.  Now it's 17 degrees F, way too cold for 
> slush to stay liquid.  Oh, Joy, Winter is here!  It didn't 
> even cover up the mud and leaves, so it looks like a white 
> wonderland covered with leaves and dirt.  Yuck!
> 
> Keep on rockin', where the ground ain't frozen!
> 
> JR
> 
> PS, There's a park called Dinosaur National Monument, with a 
> big dino quarry you can visit.  There's over 20,000 bones on 
> the rock face, with a hadrosaur face 6 feet tall looking out 
> at you from the cryptozoic stone universe.  I was so awed I 
> didn't even take photos for being stunned!  Near Vernal UT, 
> and worth the trip (from anywhere! ) all by itself!  If I had 
> seen that as a youth, my whole life would have been different!
> 
> 
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