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GeneralA little minerolinguistic humor . . .

29th Aug 2014 20:25 UTCEd Clopton 🌟 Expert

An acquaintance (who signed the message "Logophilically yours") sent this:

Say, I just came across a sorta joke that nobody seems to have noticed, mineral-historywise. The same fella who discovered and named Uranium (von Reichenstein) discovered soon after a sort of faux-tin metalloid which he promptly named Tellurium. Well, when I saw that, the Greek-and-Latin junkie in me sat up and guffawed.... I asked what fer, and he said, "Doncha get it? Οὐρανός & Tellus -- 'Heaven and Earth!' Haaaaw haaaw haaaw ! ! !" (He's full of himself sometimes.)


Too bad (or maybe just as well) the Mindat message board doesn't have a Humor category . . . .

4th Sep 2014 07:55 UTCPeter Haas

Err... uranium was discovered and named by Klaproth. Plus, von Reichenstein's discovery of tellurium took place six years earlier ...

4th Sep 2014 09:50 UTCStefan Oertel

While Müller von Reichenstein discovered tellurium, it was actually named by Klaproth, correctly after "mother earth". Uranium was named after the planet (which was discovered a few years earlier), which is the connection between both. So von Reichenstein was innocent in this case, and if Klaproth was full of himself (no confirmation of that) he had his CV to justify that....


Cheers,

Stefan

4th Sep 2014 11:51 UTCcascaillou

Geological humor...


Who really is the geologist?


-someone who takes pictures of his wife only for scale

-someone who can date extinct species but can't remember his wife birthdate

-someone who actually expects his wife to understand that every single of the many pebbles spread all through the house is important.

-someone who can't refrain from scratching his own home windows with pieces of rock

-someone who, for all the above reasons, needs a very understanding wife.

-someone who drinks more beer than water while hiking

-someone who, during a walk in nature, will always let you know that he sees more than you do. Especially if you don't care.

-someone who will laugh at his own highly refined jokes about cleavages

-someone you don't want to tell that 'diamonds are forever' because he might prove you wrong, just for science sake.

-someone who won't feel comfortable among people that can't make the difference between a rock and a mineral

-someone who compulsively scraps moss in the woods because there must be rock underneath

-a bearded person who won't hesitate passing US customs wearing safety shoes still stained with ANFO

-someone who will have to try hard and convince the same customs officers that an Estwing is a tool, not a weapon.

-someone who wasn't impressed by the passage into year 2000 as that's still nothing but plain old cenozoic

-someone who believes that a diamond could scratch Chuck Norris. No way.

4th Sep 2014 14:46 UTCcascaillou

anyone know a good joke about sodium deposits?


Na.

4th Sep 2014 15:25 UTCcascaillou

If you choose to lend a geologist money, beware that they consider a million years ago to be Recent.


"Geologist might be weird. Many geologists think about rocks and minerals while laying in bed at night. This is pretty strange behaviour since the rest of the population thinks about normal but way less interesting things such as sports, politics, you name it, only geologists think about rocks."

4th Sep 2014 16:44 UTCRob Woodside 🌟 Manager

:)-D

4th Sep 2014 18:02 UTCRui Nunes 🌟 Expert

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4th Sep 2014 18:30 UTCDavid Baldwin

cascaillou Wrote:

-------------------------------------------------------

> anyone know a good joke about sodium deposits?

>

> Na.


16 sodium atoms walked into a bar, followed by Batman.

5th Sep 2014 00:46 UTCDaniel Levesque

cascaillou,

Can't stop chuckling over that bookcase cartoon. Not my FAULT.

5th Sep 2014 01:36 UTCcascaillou

How many petroleum geologists does it take to screw in a lightbulb?


Just one, but hundreds will apply for the job.

5th Sep 2014 18:52 UTCcascaillou

like any science, geology obeys a serie of immutable laws...


-a magnificent fossil will always be embedded in almost unbreakable rock

-the magnificent fossil is always oriented perpendicularly to that rock cleavage plane

-the geologist always feels like striking the rock one more time, only to realize that was one time too many

-consequently, a magnificent fossil is always recovered as a bunch of ugly rock shards

-the beauty of the fossil is always proportional to the length of the curse uttered by the geologist who just broke it

-at that point, Murphy's law finishes the geologist off: it starts raining.
 
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