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GeneralA good laugh, meme style
8th Jan 2021 16:48 UTCScott Rider OP
Just poking around the Internet and thought this was pretty funny!
Feel free to post other funny memes and images here! I'll start with something some of us can certainly relate. Albeit they forgot meteorite...
8th Jan 2021 17:16 UTCDavid Carter Expert
Luckily Hermione was labelled with quartz rather than the moniker used for Harry!
8th Jan 2021 17:23 UTCScott Rider OP
Yeah I thought they should have put meteorite instead of slag because that is usually what the ID ends up being anyway...
8th Jan 2021 17:40 UTCFrank Mersch
Hi there,
really true, but I think it depends a little bit on the area.
Our german colleges have this page:
equal to "common findings" and are part of the beginner's guide.
LG
Frank
8th Jan 2021 18:04 UTCMaggie Kroenke
I laughed so hard! This is perfect; I see a lot of meteorwrongs in my line of work. I will be passing this around.
8th Jan 2021 18:08 UTCPaul Brandes 🌟 Manager
They also forgot diamond...
8th Jan 2021 18:37 UTCAlfredo Petrov 🌟 Manager
You have to distinguish between what people think they've found (usually meteorites, diamond, gold, tektites, fossil wood, or platinum), and what the ID turns out to really be (slag, glass, quartz, calcite, or various iron oxides). The meme posted above only refers to the latter group.
8th Jan 2021 20:18 UTCErik Vercammen Expert
Rather the bird Rok from the Tales of 1001 Night.
8th Jan 2021 20:21 UTCPaul Brandes 🌟 Manager
Or from an outrageous game of marbles...
10th Jan 2021 11:18 UTCPeter Nancarrow Expert
That reminds me (admittedly rather obliquely) of the "Lover's Stone"on Hirta, St Kilda, the location of one of my field mapping projects.
The tradition, when the remote island was inhabited, was that a young man who wished to marry had to climb up onto the stone, and standing right at the tip facing out to sea, bend and touch his toes. That would prove to his prospective bride's family, his courage and ability to deal with the heights of the cliffs (amongst the highest in Britain).
Those were essential qualities in the hardy subsistence community, where a routine activity was collecting sea birds and their eggs from ledges on the precipitous cliffs.
One bizarre consequence of this terrain was that amongst my rock specimens collected from outcrop were some with identical 8-figure grid references (i.e. with 10 metre precision), even though they were collected about 300 metres apart! The explanation for this apparent error was that one week I had been collecting from the top edge of the cliffs, and the following week from the base of the cliffs by boat. The overhang was such that at the first specimen site, I had 100 metres of rock and almost 200 metres of air beneath me, and at the second site I had an overhang of gabbro 200 metres above my head!
10th Jan 2021 13:52 UTCBob Harman
No No No, you guys have it all wrong! That's me in the photo.
It's my newest geode find.....it is just waiting for me to crack it open. BOB
12th Jan 2021 00:25 UTCHarold Moritz 🌟 Manager
The jokes on him, cuz he probably only has a piece of quartz or slag!
Boy did I LOL on the first photo, too.
12th Jan 2021 02:03 UTCSteve Ewens
Yes, funny indeed. The more I think of it the more I laugh.
At the risk of censorship, we used to say that "cool chicks dig rocks".
We also used to joke that we couldn't be served there at Plush, Hart Mountain, OR, since the sign said " No minors (miners) at the bar".
I do love a good pun.
Steve
12th Jan 2021 09:35 UTCPeter Nancarrow Expert
My windscreen sun visor sticker for a while during my student days in the late 1960's carried the slogan "I Dig Acid Rock".
Obviously to any geologists who knew me, a double-entendre relating to my interests in Cornish mineralogy and the music of Jimi Hendrix, Pink Floyd, Canned Heat, Country Joe & The Fish etc!
12th Jan 2021 02:36 UTCPaul Brandes 🌟 Manager
At the risk of censorship, we used to say that "cool chicks dig rocks".
Hence, one of the reasons why I married one.... ;-)
12th Jan 2021 18:45 UTCDon Saathoff Expert
Paul, I did likewise....in fact, we met "on the outcrop"!!
12th Jan 2021 22:59 UTCRolf Luetcke Expert
My first date was collecting Gypsum Roses in St. David, Arizona, she "dug" those too.
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