[meteorite-list] Bicentenary of the meteorite of Toulouse

[MexicoDoug]

Hello Renaud, and all the kind listers who have been making all sorts 
of comments on this thread.  I hope the extra publicity gets a few more 
motivated to go to the Toulouse exhibit.

There is another odd tie to Toulouse, here in the USA can relate to.  
Meteorites seemed to be harbingers of a lot of Napoleons doings.  
Precisely two years to the day after the meteoritical fall in 
Napoleonic Toulouse 10 April 1812, the British led a force 10 April 
1814 in an epic meteoric irradication of Napoleon's empire in a key 
battle there.  Then those same high-stepping drum beating Brits that 
did this had management push its luck straight to American shores 
thinking if they could defeat Napoleon, that we would be shoo-fly pie 
and apple pan dowdy.  Well, unfortunately for them, our gator eaters 
avenged Napoleon's last stand here and as the oral history relates the 
shameful fate of these would be double conquerers in Napoleon's gift to 
Thomas Jefferson:

So we grabbed an alligator and we fought another round
We filled his head with cannon balls, and powdered his behind
And when we touched the powder off the gator lost his mind
Yeah, they ran through the briars
And they ran through the brambles
And they ran through the bushes
Where the rabbit couldn't go

(and rabbits can slip into the worse raspberry & poison ivy patch!)

And thus Napoleon's defeat was avenged hot Jambalaya style ...

OK, that was a great break during this lull, like the eye of a storm I 
can feel in my bones a whopper of a meteorite fall is nearing on the 
event horizon ...

Couldn't find the article in the 1836 antiquarian journal posted for 
the toadstorm but I got lost looking (page #?) - it was the table of 
contents that opened and I'm a slow reader ;-(

The jungle story via tropical photos was fun, thanks; and the Frog 
festival (which is just a 3-4 hour drive down the highway from here; 
comments on eating frogs; forgive me for assuming that in France all 
would be eating them fried like us, I see butter and garlic is 
preferred by some of our refined listmembers, but in these territories 
thanks to the Cajuns we like them fried and eat them with hush puppies 
and chitlins, which are misbehaved baby dogs and chitenous aggregations 
for those unfamiliar with other delicious exotics we eat down here 
(besides alligators and iguanas, which are all subnstituted for chicken 
when tourists without their knowledge since you can't tell the 
difference)

Since I can't go to France, the whole country is invited to Florida for 
some monster escargot that is a traditional Florida dish, only these 
snails are as big as human heads (we call 'em conch fritters - of 
course fried) and they combine well with Alligator tail steaks.

...and for anyone who would wonder wtf this has with meteorites, beats 
me but one hypothesis is that everyone interested in meteorites 
expresses a bottled up sense of adventure inside, just waiting to 
explode out.  When we look at meteorites, it is to experience through 
the senses first hand the different flavors developed in the Solar 
crockpot.  We chase a meteorite fall, whether with boots on the ground 
or a silver pick on eBay; it is that same emotion of seeking out what 
is different, whether it be a kolache, boudin ball, haggis (which I 
understand are little burrowing animals the Scots turn inside out and 
eat raw according to a bonnie Scottish lassie), Cui, and all kinds of 
interesting stuff.

Have a great time in Toulouse to all at the exhibit and thanks for the 
first link!

Kindest wishes
Doug


-----Original Message-----
From: rm31 <rm31 at free.fr>
To: meteorite-list <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Wed, Apr 11, 2012 10:47 am
Subject: [meteorite-list] Bicentenary of the meteorite of Toulouse


Hi List,

First pictures and links to local tv news here:

http://meteorites.superforum.fr/t4834p15-exposition-bicentenaire-de-chute-de-la-meteorite-de-toulouse

More to come!

Renaud

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