[meteorite-list] Dam Hammer

From: Greg Hupe <gmhupe_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2009 15:08:07 -0400
Message-ID: <CC399739DA714F9293A75FD138CB099F_at_Gregor>

Carl,

You wrote:
"Everyone seems to have an opinion here but the use of the word stupid by
Greg is uncalled for. Michael Blood will clear this up without any name
calling."

In reply to what I wrote earlier:
"...Over use of a term for marketing (not saying Steve had done this here)
is simply stupid!" "My opinion!"

I did not call 'anyone' stupid. I said in 'my opinion' the over use of the
term for marketing is "stupid".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stupid

Take it for what it is worth, not meant to be an insult!
Greg
P.S. I think I am stupid for being drawn into continued conversation on this
subject!


----- Original Message -----
From: <cdtucson at cox.net>
To: <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>; <MeteorHntr at aol.com>; "Michael
Farmer" <meteoriteguy at yahoo.com>
Sent: Wednesday, March 18, 2009 2:34 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Dam Hammer


> Okay Michael.
> Now you added this to the equation;
> --"An earthen dam while yes, scraped by man, is still just dirt. No damage
> could be
> done to it."
> Now are you saying damage has to be done to it????
> How much damage was done to the guys roof and do you have photos to prove
> it???
> Not that we don't trust you but if you insist damage must be done then
> lets see the damage?
> And by the way if these are hammers or not hammers this is not going to
> send your business down the drain unless you let it. Everyone seems to
> have an opinion here but the use of the word stupid by Greg is uncalled
> for. Michael Blood will clear this up without any name calling.
> I hope. Carl
>
> -- Michael Farmer <meteoriteguy at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>> Yes, I saw that the email was mostly a joke, and congrats on the stone.
>>
>> But we must get this under control. A pile of dirt is nothing more than a
>> pile of dirt. Carl seems to think that anything touched by man would make
>> a meteorite a "hammer stone". This is a crock of crap, and while I
>> ignored this discussion a couple of weeks ago, I can not sit back and
>> watch my business go down the drain by trying to lump every stone as a
>> hammer. I know of one hammer in West, a 124 gram stone hit a house,
>> bounced off and landed in the yard. The homeowner picked it up and the
>> stone has shingles embedded in it. I am still trying to buy the stone,
>> but the owner has money and really has no interest in selling it. That is
>> a hammer stone. It is the only hammer stone I know of from West, that is
>> definitive.
>>
>> We can not allow people to continue to demean meteorites by attempting to
>> say that dirt roads and driveways make hammer stones.
>> Smash a car, computer printer, rooftop, or cow and you have a hammer.
>> An earthen dam while yes, scraped by man, is still just dirt. No damage
>> could be done to it. A stone landing in the dirt 20 feet away but not on
>> the dam is no different that a stone on the dam.
>>
>> Michael Farmer
>>
>> --- On Wed, 3/18/09, MeteorHntr at aol.com <MeteorHntr at aol.com> wrote:
>>
>> > From: MeteorHntr at aol.com <MeteorHntr at aol.com>
>> > Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Dam Hammer
>> > To: meteoriteguy at yahoo.com, meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
>> > Date: Wednesday, March 18, 2009, 12:01 PM
>> > In a message dated 3/18/2009 12:50:33
>> > P.M. Central Daylight Time,
>> > meteoriteguy at yahoo.com
>> > writes:
>> >
>> > Um, I hope this is a joke, as far as calling it a
>> > hammer.
>> >
>> > .
>> >
>> > Mike and all,
>> >
>> > While I will leave the interpretation of "hammer" up
>> > to the beholder, the
>> > post was indeed more of a joke, or double entendre
>> > . But it did hit the dam.
>> > And my "congrats" going out to my wife was not a
>> > joke, that was sincere.
>> >
>> > I am NOT asking a premium on this rock above any of
>> > the others I am selling,
>> > just because it hit the dam.
>> >
>> > Although since it was found AFTER the heavy rains, I am
>> > actually discounting
>> > it below what I would be selling it for if it was picked up
>> > earlier, as I am
>> > with all the Post-rain recovery specimens.
>> >
>> > Steve
>> >
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>> >
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