[meteorite-list] Hammer hammers!

[Graham Ensor]

Now...getting back to fantastic meteorites... here's a picture of a
real hammer....still on Svend's website but now in my own
collection...

Check out the third picture down and read the description on his great
website...probably my favourite acquisition.

http://www.niger-meteorite-recon.de/en/Meteoritensammlung_17.htm

Graham

On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 10:44 PM, Martin Altmann
<altmann at meteorite-martin.de> wrote:
> The history of hammers?
>
> Hits for "hammer" used for meteorites as,well, as hammers, per year of this
> list:
>
> 2001   zero
> 2002    2     (Captain B. commercial)
> 2003   24     (mainly Park Forest & dealers)
> 2004    4     (Worden article)
> 2005   10     (mainly jokes about the "hammers" concept)
> 2006  103     (eeek, it went out of control!)
> 2007  116
> 2008....     iiih it's too horrible to continue!
>
>
> Walter, Walter, what have you done???!!!
>
> Kids, I declare the year 2006, to be that year, when the "hammer" was
> invented.
>
> ...and since then, we have to pay suddenly 3-10 times more for the good ol
> falls afflicted
> and each and every falls-addicted prays, whenever the news of a possible
> fall or shower goes round, that no crumb hasn't hit anything else but the
> ground, for him being able still to afford a little piece.
>
> It started as a harmless fun and was turned into a very successful marketing
> campaign.
> Respect!
>
> And we're singing: Hit the Road, Jack!
>
> ;-)
> Martin
>
> PS: The holes hysteria wasn't so everlasting.
> Maybe we could combine them..
> Hammers with holes, which hit holes...
>
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