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Re: A Tektite Meteorite?!!?
did they mention what town this tektite meteorite slammed into??
Mark
At 03:36 PM 7/14/98 EDT, WBranchsb@aol.com wrote:
>Hello Dan (and List). Let's have some fun!
>
>> How many errors can you find?
>>
>> There is a picture of what looks like a raisin shaped black rock with
>> dimples on a stand. The base of the stand sports a plaque
>> that reads " GENUINE FRAGMENT OF A TEKTITE METEORITE".
>
>Obvious but common error.
>>
>> The ad headline reads: "Capture an interstellar traveler"
>>
>> The ad copy reads:
>>
>> -------------------------
>> It slammed into Earth in a fiery cataclysm a thousand years ago.
>
>Very precise measurement (must be a small standard deviation). The ad copy
>writer must be a proponant of the lunar theory origin.
>
>>The distance it journeyed stretched between the very stars.
>
>Maybe a reference to Hollywood, CA?
>
>> What wonders did it witness? What strange civilizations noted its
>> passing?
>
>Hollywood, CA!!
>>
>> As collectors snatch them up, genuine meteorite fragments are getting
>> rarer and rarer.
>
>Debatable (but lets not do it, okay).
>
>> After all, it's not every day that a visitor from 2,000 light-years away
>crashlands on the planet.
>
>Oh, I don't know. Ask the folks in Roswell, NM.
>
>> Held in real goldplated calipers, authentic Tektite Meteorite is strikingly
>> presented.
>
>See point #1 above (the stuff about the gold plated calipers is most likely
>the truthfull part).
>
>> Rising above its marbled and wooden base, it graces any
>> collection, any place of honor in your home or office.
>
>In my home, I once sucked one up in a vacuum cleaner. Try it, they are
>actually pretty tough! It is for sale at a premium due to the extra "flight
>markings."
>
>> A powerful gift - for whom among us has not looked up at the sky and
>> wondered?
>
>Wondering in the winter: "Will summer never come?"
>Wondering the the summer" "When will winter arrive?"
>
>> Quantities Limited. Retails for $150 at the Houston Space Museum.
>
>Never been there but if it is part of a gov't agency then probably a
>reasonable price (sorry Ron ;-).
>
>> Yours for just $79.95!
>
>My vacuumed one is less! I know, I'll have an auction . . .
>
>-Walter
>
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