In the magical world of this newsgroup called rec.crafts.jewelry on
Thu, 09 Apr 2009 19:52:10 -0700 we were all amazed to see Peter W.
Rowe write:

On Thu, 09 Apr 2009 19:25:09 -0700, in rec.crafts.jewelry Muso
wrote:


Hello Peter,

and thank you for keeping such a high signal-to-noise ratio with this
group. Well, as you have pointed out, zinc is an "irony" metal, and
although jewelers are known for working precious metals, they also are
no strangers to iron.

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And more to the point, you've not yet explained why anyone would wish to melt
pennies for the zinc in them.

Peter,
I think he explained everything quite well.
He's obviously somewhat ****ed off at our (US) government for various
and sundry justifiable reasons, not least of which is the fact that it
makes it a crime to melt the useless penny, made useless I might add
by the hidden tax of inflation.

In these days of modern times, when you can't tell the AC's from the
DC's aren't we all yearning for someone who can turn on a little
stopping power? Don't you think I mean a smoky glass, a lightening rod
with which to chase the spooks away?

The posting was humorous.
Y'all need to lighten up a bit.