One only needs to watch an episode of "Beavis and Butthead" to appreciate
the use of 'butt' or 'Butte'!! Light humor at its best! :/
Best Regards,
Greg
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The Hupe Collection
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IMCA 3163
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-----Original Message-----
From: Count Deiro
Sent: Monday, March 28, 2011 6:20 PM
To: Anita Westlake ; Michael Gilmer ; [email protected]
Cc: [email protected] ; [email protected]
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Polished Butts - Toliet humor aside, what
exactly are th...
I see no connontation of toilet humour, or scatological inference in the use
of the word "butt". This word has been in use for centuries in the Anglo
Saxon tongue and dialects... see...(noun)Rifle Butt...the end of the
shoulder stock of firearm. The (noun)Butt End...the end of lengths of rope,
lumber and metal... and the phrase and word...(verb)Abutting and
(noun)Abutment.
A useful, descriptive, word that should be used with impunity. And I would
see its appropriate use to described the remaining piece of a meteorite that
has been reduced in size to a fraction of it's mass by cutting.
Regards...and no charge,
Count Deiro
IMCA 3536
-----Original Message-----
From: Anita Westlake <[email protected]>
Sent: Mar 28, 2011 2:37 PM
To: Michael Gilmer <[email protected]>, [email protected]
Cc: [email protected], [email protected]
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Polished Butts - Toliet humor aside, what
exactly are th...
Being an x-smoker, I conjured up visions of cigarette butts. Couldn't
imagine
why anyone would polish one.
Anita
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From: Michael Gilmer <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]; [email protected]
Sent: Mon, March 28, 2011 5:35:14 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Polished Butts - Toliet humor aside, what
exactly
are th...
Hi List,
I agree, the word "core" is much better than "polished butt". :)
Thanks for the explanation. I had a hunch that it was related to
thin-sections, but Google wouldn't give me anything useful or
non-offensive.
Best regards,
MikeG
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On 3/28/11, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote:
No toilet humor here.
It is a chunk of meteorite encased in epoxy, polished, and from which
thin-sections are cut.
I prefer to call them "cores".
Less possibility of misunderstanding.
Anne M. Black
_http://www.impactika.com/_ (http://www.impactika.com/)
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In a message dated 3/28/2011 2:59:26 PM Mountain Daylight Time,
[email protected] writes:
My guess would be that it's a polished endcut.
Jim K
In a message dated 3/28/2011 3:54:41 P.M. Central Daylight Time,
[email protected] writes:
Hi Folks,
I have seen several references to "polished butts" in the Met
Bulletin. For example, from this recent entry (NWA 6580) approved
yesterday -
"Type specimens available at Cascadia include 1 piece originally 20.0
g, from which one polished thin section and one polished butt were
made. Thompson holds the main mass."
I did the usual Google Search ("polished butt") to find out what this
was, and you don't want to know what the results of that search were.
Let's just say, that is has nothing to do with meteorites or thin
sections.
So I have to ask the List - what is a polished butt?
Best regards,
MikeG
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