[Rockhounds] Barium / Iron in iron miner

[Donald Tuttle]

Kreigh, et al:

At my last upper G.I., the barium 'shake'  came in Pepto-mint and/or vanilla bean flavor with a extra large straw to suck the concoction down as fast as possible.  Still tasted like chalk tray sweepings on a blackboard eraser with all the dusty appeal of what comes out of the rear end of an old Electrolux.

A couple years ago I purchased a box of chalk in a small district town for a remote mountain school in Lesotho--the chalk was packed in sawdust in a wooden box with a sliding lid marked "100 Chalks, Dustless! Now with Extra Calcium! No Coloreds." Gave me a moment's pause when I read that....

Ankle still mending just fine this April 1, and thats no joke. Thanks for the repartee.

Donald
 

> From: Kreigh at tomaszewski.net
> To: rockhounds at lists.drizzle.com
> Subject: Re: [Rockhounds] Barium / Iron in iron miner
> Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2008 20:10:54 -0500
> 
> They still only come in two flavors, plaster and chalk.
> 
> Kreigh
> 
> 
> Donald Tuttle wrote:
> > 
> > Pete,
> > >prepration?
> > Good spelling, even on April 1, should not be ignored. Tomorrow, if my ankle feels a little better, I'll relate a story from my undergrad days involving a biocasting experiment gone bad that ended up as "Goshdurnite, loc. unknown" in a mineralogy museum display case.
> > 
> > Barium cocktails might be improved if you substitute a (pearl) onion for the olive...
> > 
> > Don
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > > From: Pmodreski at aol.com
> > > Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2008 20:53:36 -0400
> > > Subject: Re: [Rockhounds] Barium / Iron in iron miner
> > > To: rockhounds at lists.drizzle.com
> > >
> > > Don,
> > >
> > > Barium cocktails approved by the Friends of Mineralogy all show a  little
> > > sticker which says, "No mineral specimens were harmed in the prepration  of this
> > > product".
> > >
> > > (should I have saved this to post on Apr. 1?)
> > >
> 
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