[meteorite-list] Polished Butts - Toliet humor aside, what exactly are th...

From: Count Deiro <countdeiro_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2011 15:20:25 -0700 (GMT-07:00)
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I see no connontation of toilet humour, or scatological inference in the use of the word "butt". This word has been in use for centuries in the Anglo Saxon tongue and dialects... see...(noun)Rifle Butt...the end of the shoulder stock of firearm. The (noun)Butt End...the end of lengths of rope, lumber and metal... and the phrase and word...(verb)Abutting and (noun)Abutment.

A useful, descriptive, word that should be used with impunity. And I would see its appropriate use to described the remaining piece of a meteorite that has been reduced in size to a fraction of it's mass by cutting.

Regards...and no charge,

Count Deiro
IMCA 3536


-----Original Message-----
>From: Anita Westlake <anitawestlake at att.net>
>Sent: Mar 28, 2011 2:37 PM
>To: Michael Gilmer <meteoritemike at gmail.com>, Impactika at aol.com
>Cc: meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com, Jimski47 at aol.com
>Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Polished Butts - Toliet humor aside, what exactly are th...
>
>Being an x-smoker, I conjured up visions of cigarette butts. Couldn't imagine
>why anyone would polish one.
>
>Anita
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>From: Michael Gilmer <meteoritemike at gmail.com>
>To: Impactika at aol.com
>Cc: meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com; Jimski47 at aol.com
>Sent: Mon, March 28, 2011 5:35:14 PM
>Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Polished Butts - Toliet humor aside, what exactly
>are th...
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>Hi List,
>
>I agree, the word "core" is much better than "polished butt". :)
>
>Thanks for the explanation. I had a hunch that it was related to
>thin-sections, but Google wouldn't give me anything useful or
>non-offensive.
>
>Best regards,
>
>MikeG
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>On 3/28/11, Impactika at aol.com <Impactika at aol.com> wrote:
>> No toilet humor here.
>> It is a chunk of meteorite encased in epoxy, polished, and from which
>> thin-sections are cut.
>> I prefer to call them "cores".
>> Less possibility of misunderstanding.
>>
>> Anne M. Black
>> _http://www.impactika.com/_ (http://www.impactika.com/)
>> _IMPACTIKA at aol.com_ (mailto:IMPACTIKA at aol.com)
>> President, I.M.C.A. Inc.
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>>
>> In a message dated 3/28/2011 2:59:26 PM Mountain Daylight Time,
>> Jimski47 at aol.com writes:
>> My guess would be that it's a polished endcut.
>>
>> Jim K
>>
>>
>> In a message dated 3/28/2011 3:54:41 P.M. Central Daylight Time,
>> meteoritemike at gmail.com writes:
>> Hi Folks,
>>
>> I have seen several references to "polished butts" in the Met
>> Bulletin. For example, from this recent entry (NWA 6580) approved
>> yesterday -
>>
>> "Type specimens available at Cascadia include 1 piece originally 20.0
>> g, from which one polished thin section and one polished butt were
>> made. Thompson holds the main mass."
>>
>> I did the usual Google Search ("polished butt") to find out what this
>> was, and you don't want to know what the results of that search were.
>> Let's just say, that is has nothing to do with meteorites or thin
>> sections.
>>
>> So I have to ask the List - what is a polished butt?
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>> MikeG
>>
>>
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