[meteorite-list] Dam Hammer

[Michael Blood]

" we must get this under control"
        What is this, Germany!?
        Get a grip!
        some say tomato some say tomato (guess they
Are spelled the same way.....
        Michael



> From: Michael Farmer <meteoriteguy at yahoo.com>

> Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2009 11:16:04 -0700 (PDT)

> To: Meteorite List <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>, Steve Arnold

> dealer/Qynne <MeteorHntr at aol.com>

> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Dam Hammer

> 

> 

> 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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