"Peter W. Rowe" pwrowe@ixDOTnetcomDOTcom wrote in message
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On , in rec.crafts.jewelry "Don Thompson"
wrote:

I believe the translation of "thick" as used by ted in this case is #5
in
your Merriam-Webster Online. ( Obtuse, Stupid ). HeH!

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Hey Don, a bit backed up on your newsgroup replies? (chuckle.) You've
got a
good news server as regards retention times. The message you replied to
here
was posted on September 5. Over 7 weeks ago. Pretty good...

cheers

Peter


Backed up in my reading. I submit to you that it sometimes becomes
neccessary to practice ones craft to the exclusion of the simpler pleasures
just to remain afloat. Let alone get your head above the surface. Or perhaps
I just got a lucrative and quite interesting consulting project through the
door. HeH. More than just semi-retired Mining Engineer specializing in
Explosive Engineering I can pick and choose the projects I consult on. This
one produced some exciting findings. Gold and Silver plus other "sweeteners"
in a vein that includes some pretty nice Jasp-Agate, blood red with swirls
of clear Agate and clear jelly Agate with swirls and clouds of blood red
Jasper all with the inclusion of VISIBLE crystaline Gold and feathers of
Silver. The specimens with easily discerned metalics in them have been
skimmed for sale as collectible specimens but the whole vein has enough
metal in it to make a mine with the very beautiful Jasp-Agate as the ore.

Netcom was bought by Earthlink a long while back and just this past month
or so Netcom subscribers had to switch from Netcom news servers to Earthlink
servers. So I am on news.west.earthlink.net this month. The process entailed
doing a complete article wipe on my machine and reset so that I had to
download all the old articles and headers available on the server. I don't
know how retention times will look next year but this instance has some very
old posts. I have been reading a lot of stuff the last couple of days and a
lot of it is hillarious.

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Don Thompson

Ex ROMAD