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

From: Michael Gilmer <meteoritemike_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2011 18:34:45 -0400
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Hi Count and List,

I was afraid that my ignorance of the subject would make me the "butt"
of jokes......... ;)

Best regards,

MikeG

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On 3/28/11, Count Deiro <countdeiro at earthlink.net> wrote:
> 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
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>________________________________
>>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...
>>
>>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.
>>> _http://www.imca.cc/_ (http://www.imca.cc/)
>>>
>>>
>>> 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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