[Rockhounds] How to make Fluorite octahedra?

[Axel Emmermann]

Hi Larry,

To be honest, I had to look the guy up... But then I saw that he wrote a
book (among other stuff) with a rather weird title: "Babies and Other
Hazards of Sex: How to Make a Tiny Person in Only 9 Months With Tools You
Probably Have Around the Home"
Yeah sure, he's absolutely 200% my kind of guy. If you can think of a line
like that you're a friend of mine ;-)))
We're not related but quite possibly we are a product of the same fluke in
the gene-pool...
Maybe there was a common ancestor laughing and hickuping and frolicking
about in the primeval forests of Europe... 
Maybe Hilario the Hilarious Hibernian hierophant or something along those
lines?

There was a hilarious piece of writing going around a few days ago...
Something about a colonoscopy. Wasn't that by Dave Barry?

Cheers
Axel

> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
> Van: rockhounds-bounces at lists.drizzle.com 
> [mailto:rockhounds-bounces at lists.drizzle.com] Namens Lawrence Rush
> Verzonden: woensdag 18 juni 2008 14:27
> Aan: Rockhounds at drizzle.com: A mailing list for rock and gem 
> collectors
> Onderwerp: Re: [Rockhounds] How to make Fluorite octahedra?
> 
> Axel: Great response....Are you by any chance related to Dave 
> Barry?    :/}
> 
> ==========================
> > Hi Johan,
> >
> > Make sure you have the following at hand:
> >
> > * Fluorite chunks
> > * children
> > * A good solid legal insurance and representation
> > * A hard surface to stand on... a tile or concrete floor is ideal.
> > * The Boston "Pops" Philharmonic Orchestra
> >
> > Children can break anything without EVER needing tools of any kind. 
> > So, why should you give them tools whith which they can hurt 
> > themselves.
> >
> > The trick is to tell the kids that you'll teach them how to make 
> > fluorite float in the air NOT to make octahedra. Kids have no idea 
> > what octahedra are. In fact don't care that much about octahedra. 
> > Octahedra are not edible.
> >
> > You deploy the kids on the tile floor with their arms hands 
> stretched 
> > forwards, palms up and eyes closed.
> > You put a fluorite chunk on each handpalm and tell the 
> victim, pardon, 
> > child to concentrate on making it float... Plant the suggestion in 
> > their minds that the rock gets lighter and lighter...
> > Whithout warning (this is important) have the Boston Pops play the 
> > first 8 bars of Aaron Copland's "Hoe-Down" at full 
> strenght. You may 
> > need a large closet or a curtain to hide the orchestra from 
> the kids. 
> > Use your imagination, it's only about a 100 musicians (You 
> may want to 
> > stack the contrabasses horizontally to save space).
> >
> > Try to calm the children afterwards... Tell them that if they keep 
> > their trauma to themselves you will not sue their parents 
> for breaking 
> > your precious fluorite.
> >
> > Inspect the floor. There's bound to be an octahedral fragment among 
> > the rubble.
> >
> > No seriously, Johan, I have no idea how to go about that...
> >
> > Cheers
> > Axel
> >
> >
> >
> >> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
> >> Van: rockhounds-bounces at lists.drizzle.com
> >> [mailto:rockhounds-bounces at lists.drizzle.com] Namens Johan
> >> Verzonden: woensdag 18 juni 2008 0:14
> >> Aan: rockhounds at lists.drizzle.com; rockhounds at lists.drizzle.com
> >> CC: rockhounds-request at lists.drizzle.com
> >> Onderwerp: [Rockhounds] How to make Fluorite octahedra?
> >>
> >> How can I teach children in our club to make fluorite octahedra?
> >> I assume: get the right kind of fluorite, use some kind of rock 
> >> splitter, right orientation etc.
> >> Have never tried it.
> >>
> >> --
> >>
> >> Johan Maertens
> >>
> >> --
> >> _______________________________________________
> >> Rockhounds at drizzle Mailing List
> >> Subscription Services:
> >> http://lists.drizzle.com/mailman/listinfo/rockhounds
> >> List Home Page, with a link to the List Usage Policy:
> >> http://www.eclecticlapidary.com/Rockhounds/index.html
> >>
> >
> >
> > --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- 
> multipart/alternative  
> > text/plain (text body -- kept)  text/html
> > ---
> > --
> > _______________________________________________
> > Rockhounds at drizzle Mailing List
> > Subscription Services:
> > http://lists.drizzle.com/mailman/listinfo/rockhounds
> > List Home Page, with a link to the List Usage Policy:
> > http://www.eclecticlapidary.com/Rockhounds/index.html
> 
> --
> _______________________________________________
> Rockhounds at drizzle Mailing List
> Subscription Services:
> http://lists.drizzle.com/mailman/listinfo/rockhounds
> List Home Page, with a link to the List Usage Policy:
> http://www.eclecticlapidary.com/Rockhounds/index.html
>