[Rockhounds] Calcite

[Axel Emmermann]

Heck yes, me too...
Sorry about that John, I thought you meant that as funny as it sounded...
I really thought the same as Earl... prisms and rainbows are like Christmas
and eggnog ;-)))
Iridescent would be the proper term, I guess?
Do we use that term for non-metallic stuff?
Still it was one of the better unintentional (and intentional) jokes I ever
heard in the realm of mineralogy. 

Cheers

Axel 
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> Namens Earl R. Verbeek
> Verzonden: zondag 7 december 2008 21:49
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> Onderwerp: Re: [Rockhounds] Calcite
> Urgentie: Laag
> 
> 
> >
> > Earl Wrote:
> >>Ohhhhh that's good, that's verrrry good......on several levels.
> >
> > I'm missing my own joke here Earl! I know I can be rather thick at
times.
> 
> > Care to explain?
> >
> 
> Ohhh, sorry --  I didn't see this e-mail message until it came through
> again, embedded in another, just now on Sunday afternoon.  But lessee
here,
> if I remember correctly you mentioned something about a calcite crystal
> that showed a rainbow inside if you oriented it correctly, and then said
> something about prismatic calcite -- so I thought you were alluding to the
> calcite crystal acting like a prism to disperse light into a spectrum.  I
> appreciated the subltety of that joke, the "prismatic" referring not to
the
> crystal habit but to its optical properties.  Intended or not, that was
> really good, I thought.  Keep 'em coming!
> 
>               Cheers-   Earl
> 
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