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Post by stevebarr on Nov 1, 2006 10:02:38 GMT -5
What in the world is going on with MAGMA these days? First, Leah goes "commercial" with a clothing/recycling ad. Then, this morning, I opened my latest copy of "Mine Explosives" magazine and saw two familiar faces in an advertisement. Is everybody selling out? Or is it just my imagination?......
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Post by jewelonly on Nov 1, 2006 10:37:04 GMT -5
You know...I'm thinking that this last picture could be considered prophetic, except that I don't see Steve's straw hat flying in the debris cloud.
Leah (smiling)
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Post by romare on Nov 1, 2006 10:48:17 GMT -5
With an explosion like that There will be no straw hat. In fact there will be Not a trace of a Steve.
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Post by JohnD on Nov 1, 2006 14:35:37 GMT -5
Romare, not even a trace of a Steve? - we should be so lucky!
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Post by snakewrangler on Nov 1, 2006 15:00:28 GMT -5
I have only seen one explosion that would even come close to that, and it was of course one of my "home made goodies", in which the debris cloud was full of sticks ,sharpen by the beavers, whos dam I was blowing to smetherians.
John, You and I both know that we could never get rid of Steve.
Leah, I can have a bacth ready by this weekend if need be ;D
Steve, I like hearing what Leah has to say when she is riled up. It should not cause you any pain ;D ;D ;D
Kyle
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Post by jewelonly on Nov 1, 2006 15:28:30 GMT -5
Now, now, you fellas, ...you know we could never get along without Steve. In any case, ladies from Alabama are renown for being just the mildest mannered little things you ever saw or heard tell of in your life...so there is no reason at all for any concern on Steve's part regarding quantity or quality of life...for the immediate future. In fact, I have forgiven Steve for publishing that less than desirable photo for all and sundry to see and this pardon will be evident when you see the lovely, large picnic basket that I have prepared for him. I have even wrapped it up with a gorgeous, long, trailing, thin red ribbon.
Leah (smiling, patiently)
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Post by romare on Nov 1, 2006 15:28:31 GMT -5
Kyle the herpetology cowboy said "I have only seen one explosion that would even come close to that, and it was of course one of my "home made goodies", in which the debris cloud was full of sticks ,sharpen by the beavers, whos dam I was blowing to smetherians."
...and I remember laughing my ass off when you told that story. Still makes me chuckle but only 'cause you survived your stupidity. <g>
Mark
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Post by jimolson on Nov 1, 2006 16:25:31 GMT -5
Leah
"the mildest mannered little things you ever saw or heard tell of in your life"
You were not at DH last time to hear us sing the song "That's gonna leave a mark" were you?
whistle whistle whistle.......
jim
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Post by jewelonly on Nov 1, 2006 16:32:54 GMT -5
No, Jim, I wasn't...unfortunately; however, the question has me wondering if perhaps someone needs a sandwich out of Steve's picnic basket. Maybe you should send me the lyrics off board...and then I can decide.
Leah (more smiles)
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Post by damammy on Nov 1, 2006 17:25:31 GMT -5
The you might be a rockhound that Pat wrote about, looking for a rock and finding it was just a dream had me questioning my sanity. I kept thinking about this rock that I had or thought I had seen and didn't remember where I had seen it and for that matter didn't remember ever seeing one like it before. I decided it was a dream and it was 3 days before I found it and boy was I relieved that it was real.
Now that I have really found it is real, does anyone know it a agate with red long inclusions would still be a moss agate? Donna
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Post by jimolson on Nov 1, 2006 17:35:58 GMT -5
Oooooh, I see how you are going to be......... you've got mail! This song is funny... and serious.... and just silly - more so the we Ralph sings it!
jim
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Post by jimolson on Nov 1, 2006 18:33:09 GMT -5
OK -as fun as this is..... Let us not forget that what we are doing here is putting together a soon to be published work that will avail us of more places to dig - under our own controll.
Help please! Team... Team... come on now. Let's all work together to get this out on time... if you do not remember the timeline back page through the posts. As funny as this may sound, I am serious about this!
Romare, Cathy and the rest of you illustrators..... get up off of that thing and get busy - we have a deadline and if we miss it Steve is going to take over.... that being the case... God go with you because none of us will.
Just remember this... when things get tough..... I'm behind you all the way! I say... I say... That's a joke son!
jim
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Post by stevebarr on Nov 1, 2006 19:04:19 GMT -5
You ever proposed with an agate.
Your idea of a "romantic getaway" is four days in a tent in sub-zero weather, digging for rocks when the ground thaws out and sipping a cheap bottle of wine each night.
When your truck gets stuck in the mud, you keep spinning the tires anyway…hoping something good will pop out of the ground.
You've ever been tempted to jump the fence around the lion's den at the local zoo because some of the rocks in there look interesting.
You've ever been on a three-day dig and run skunks off with your scent.
Your ex tricked you into signing a lousy divorce agreement by telling you it was a release form for a dig.
You've ever stood in an empty lot late at night wearing a catcher's mitt, hoping to finally "snag" a meteor for your collection.
You've ever worn the same catcher's mitt in a highway blasting zone, hoping to "get lucky".
A truck in front of you on the highway kicks up a rock and breaks your windshield, and you aren't upset because it turns out to be a piece of beryl.
As a kid your Christmas stocking was full of coal, and you spent the rest of the day looking for fossils in it.
You've ever ordered a martini "on the rocks" and were mad because the bartender put ice in it.
You were ever arrested on "Cops" because someone walked up to your car in a bad neighborhood…asked if you wanted to buy some "rock"….and you said, "Yes".
Ah....AHEM......uh....Jim.....I notice it's been a while since you added a few contributions to this list.....
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Post by geodepat on Nov 1, 2006 19:21:03 GMT -5
::)Hey John, I see you in all these pictures from all over the place and at different times. My question is this, don't you own more than one shirt.
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Post by jimolson on Nov 1, 2006 19:28:02 GMT -5
If Steve Barr has ever said "oh c'mon the digging starts at midnight and you didn't take him seriously.
If you have ever told a member of your club that scorpions flouresce in the dark hoping that they wont notice you diging because of the glowing howlloween bugs.
If you have ever seen Steve asleep in his chair next to the fire and thought..... Ha, got the jump on him.
If you have ever missed a dig and thought to yourself : the only dig I will miss will be mine.
jim
back to you Steve
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Post by geodepat on Nov 1, 2006 19:47:08 GMT -5
Your friends volunteer to dig your grave in hopes of finding a nice rock. Your local cemetery gets mad at those same friends for digging a hole 10 times bigger than is needed. Your headstone has no writing on it cause it's just a big plate of crystals from Diamond Hill. Your headstone comes up missing for that same reason. Your friends show up at the reading of the will to fight over your collection. Humm must be Halloween season.
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Post by jewelonly on Nov 1, 2006 19:51:40 GMT -5
If you have ever left your muddy boots outside the door of a nice hotel and walked in bare feet to the desk to register.
If you have ever been told by the hotel staff to leave your muddy boots outside your hotel room.
If the bell boy picks up your suitcase and says with a laugh, "What are you carrying in there? Rocks?" and you smile and say, "How did you know?"
Leah
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Post by jewelonly on Nov 1, 2006 20:19:39 GMT -5
If you asked for an emerald for your engagement ring...in matrix.
If you want to win the lottery so that you will be in a position to buy Diamond Hill should it ever come on the market again.
If you've ever sweet talked a road crew foreman into moving his blasting location down the road for a couple of days so you could dig out the exposed fossils before they blasted them to heaven.
If you've never driven over the same road area without wincing, for thinking about the ancient life trapped under the pavement.
Leah
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Post by stevebarr on Nov 2, 2006 7:23:14 GMT -5
If you have ever seen Steve asleep in his chair next to the fire and thought..... Ha, got the jump on him....while he laid there smiling under his straw hat, laughing and thinking "Ha! Don't bother Jim....I got them ALL last night."
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Post by stevebarr on Nov 2, 2006 7:38:23 GMT -5
You might be a rockhound if…..
You encourage your dog to dig in your front yard, 'cause heck, who knows what he might uncover?
The local quarry had to close after your group visited it, because there were no more rocks left.
Your truck has ever broken down by the side of the road and your biggest worry is whether or not someone is going to steal your specimens while you go get help.
Law enforcement can't get one good fingerprint from either of your hands because the tips are all scar tissue.
Your spare bathroom is a five-gallon bucket and a Hefty bag.
You've ever been arrested in the shovel department of a Home Depot and charged with "loitering".
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Post by snakewrangler on Nov 2, 2006 8:59:42 GMT -5
-You propose with a ring that is clear quartz instead of a diamond
-You have a reckless and impatcient temper, yet when diggin your very patcient and carefull.
-You have ever fell down a dump pile and found a nice specimen
-You cann't remember what you had for lunch, but can remember the crystal that you found 10 years ago.
-You wear more than one pair of knee pads.
-You have ever fallen into a pit after a crystal.
-You have ever chased an animal because you saw a rock stuck in its foot
-You have ever been tested for rabies, but you were just drulling over a crystal.
-You have ever been acused of diggin a hole in a playground.
I have more that I will post after class.....
Kyle
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Post by stevebarr on Nov 2, 2006 10:17:53 GMT -5
It once took you over a year to dig a French drain at your house because the rocks you were finding kept distracting you.
It's your fault the local cemetery had to post all of those "No Unauthorized Digging" signs.
You know if you lived in ancient Rome, you never would have taken part in a public "stoning", because that meant you would have had to throw a rock at somebody without inspecting it first.
When you were little and the town bully threw a rock at you, you thanked him.
You've ever taken a bath with more than eight mineral specimens.
You can name every mineral specimen that comes from any digging site in your region of the country, but can never remember your wife's birthday.
Your wife never knows you've forgotten her birthday, because you always grab a rock off of one of your shelves and wrap it for her at the last minute.
Your wife never tells you she knows you forgot her birthday, because you keep giving her the best stuff in your collection and she's a rockhound too.
You've had dreams about taking a sledgehammer to the Rock of Gibraltar.
You were stopped at the airport on your way to the Rock of Gibraltar because your sledgehammer set off the security alarm.
You've ever argued with an employee at a rock shop about paying tax on a specimen, because they're not supposed to charge sales tax on "necessities".
While everyone else is scrambling for cover during a hurricane, you're headed right towards it to see what it uncovers.
You've ever named your dog "Rocky", "Crystal", or "Spodumene".
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Post by stevebarr on Nov 2, 2006 10:37:21 GMT -5
Your will leaves the same specimen to three different rockhound friends, just to "mess with them" after you're gone.
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Post by jewelonly on Nov 2, 2006 10:50:29 GMT -5
"I, Steve Barr, of sound mind, (a little fib never hurt anybody) on November 2, 2006, do hereby bequeath my 90 lb. behemoth smoky quartz specimen to Leah,______________, and _______ ___________.
Ready for signing and notarizing.
I just love to be helpful,
Leah
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Post by stevebarr on Nov 2, 2006 12:29:33 GMT -5
My, Leah, you certainly are helpful! But....you should know that Rick already asked me to bequeath that particular specimen to him. I altered my will to say that he can have it after my departure from this earth, but only once he proves he had nothing to do with my untimely demise.
Now....should it turn out that he has killed me to get said Rock.....you can be next in line. In fact, just to make things interesting, I think I'll leave it to you, Romare, John D, Geode Pat, Ron, Nancy, Marcy, Jim and Rick.
The ensuing wrestling match should be a lot of fun to watch!
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Post by stevebarr on Nov 2, 2006 12:49:31 GMT -5
You might be a rockhound if…..
You are lost, crawling across the desert in Arizona, completely delirious from dehydration….and you use the last of the water in your canteen to clean up a specimen you find laying there.
You've ever gone to court over a rock.
At your wedding ceremony, you accidentally claimed "all mineral rights" to your spouse.
You missed the birth of more than three of your children because you were out on a dig at the time.
You've ever taken a shower after a dig, heard a loud thud behind you, turned around to see a fine specimen laying there and wondered "where'd that come from?"
You ever tried to use a cluster of amethyst as a down payment on a car.
You've ever gone to a carwash after a dig to hose yourself off.
You've ever uncovered such a spectacular specimen that you've run into a ditch looking at it on the ride home….twice.
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Post by stevebarr on Nov 2, 2006 12:51:05 GMT -5
You might be a rockhound if..... You've ever tried to hatch a quartz cluster.
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Post by jewelonly on Nov 2, 2006 12:53:56 GMT -5
!!!!!!!!REWARD!!!!!!!!!!
Offering $1,000,000 to the first person that can take Steve's Photo Shop away from him!
Leah
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Post by stevebarr on Nov 2, 2006 12:56:34 GMT -5
I just took Photoshop off my computer. Pay up!
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Post by stevebarr on Nov 2, 2006 13:09:13 GMT -5
You might be a rockhound if...... More of your friends recognize this side of you than the other!
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