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 <[email protected]> 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... > > ______________________________________________ > Visit the Archives at > http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html > Meteorite-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list > ______________________________________________ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html Meteorite-list mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list

