[meteorite-list] Re: Meteorite Fall in Zimbabwe?

[MexicoDoug at aol.com]

Geoff N. wrote:

>Now, back to business . . . how 'bout a half-price, three-for-one  
>Campos Sales sale with free shipping to an asteroid of your  choice?
>Regards to all,
>Geoff N.
 
Hola Geoff, Frederic, amigos,
 
Let's see on that above one...if x=list price in grams and y=shipping  
distance in AU and z=discount in days and w=compulsive-retentive erruptions, I  
haven't got the foggiest idea what I'd be getting...
 
You only paid for a wee argument - I can't continue to argue this one,  
unless you pay for the one hour-argument.  Clearly, we agree, I tell  you!  I 
absolutely said that the Zimbabweian article was Quentin Tarantino  journalism by 
an author who really couldn't properly connect his  storyline.  Quentin, in a 
complimentary way, is a metaphysical  type.  He also has Uma and a bazillion 
bucks to show for it....   I was very kind to the author, because after some of 
the presumptuous Indian  journalism we've seen, a protect-the-underdog-complex 
well-intentioned  first-timer meteoritical journalist dizzied me for spell. 
 
Wheeew....I've snapped out of it...All I really meant to say was that  
although the author truly had muddled some good basic concepts in good  faith, but 
as you point out, the final journalistic product left many  appreciating what a 
terrified, dumbfounded villager feels like.  I'd  say in a heartbeat that 
your funny take on the article was quite welcomed - even  knowing that you would 
sic your bobcats on me if I camped out in your yard to  beat the annual Tucson 
mineral show scam and sham.
Bacal-bú,   Doug