[Rockhounds] Humor (?)

[Lawrence Rush]

Alex's funny response about localities reminded me of an article I put 
together on the "old" rockhounds list, when people were much more 
contentious than now....

(The list moderators are doing a great job of preventing the kinds of things 
my joke alluded to these days!)

Larry Rush



     Question - How many Rockhound list subscribers does it take to clean a 
quartz crystal?



     Answer -



     1 to ask the group how to clean stains from quartz.



     12 to share their experiences of cleaning quartz.



     9 to recommend using oxalic acid to clean the quartz.



     11 to recommend using sodium dithionate to clean the quartz.



     18 to recommend other ways to clean the quartz.



     7 to caution about the danger of using oxalic acid to clean the quartz.



     12 to ask how to dispose of the used acid when cleaning quartz.



     10 to recommend different ways to dispose of the acid used to clean the 
quartz.



     23 to point out spelling/grammar errors in posts about cleaning the 
quartz.



     8 to flame the ones pointing out the spelling errors.



     3 to correct the spelling errors in the flamers posts.



     17 to threaten to write to the list administer to complain about the 
flamers.



     22 to point out that the subject of cleaning quartz has been discussed 
several times previously.



     7 saying "me too" for something posted along the way.



     2 to say "me three" to be cute.



     16 to post URLs where one can see articles about cleaning quartz.



     9 to point out that some URLs were listed incorrectly.



     3 to propose that a new alt.clean.quartz newsgroup be formed.



     31 to say that a newsgroup is not needed, this is what the Rockhounds 
Group is for.



     19 to complain about the political statements in posters' signature 
tags.



     5 to complain about the complainers of the political statements.



     17 to say that they are not receiving many messages lately, is anything 
wrong?



     17 to say that they are receiving too many messages on this list, and 
are unsubscribing.



     5 to apologize about sending a response to the whole group instead of 
the questioner.



     6 to post everything which has been discussed already, and to say "I 
agree" at the end.

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