An email from my husband..
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elionwyr..who's working on making a mold of a one-of-a-kind Egyptian fossil..one of the biggest things anyone has ever tried to cast (and he's a nervous wreck about)..
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Hi All,
I recently sent an all staff e-mail requesting nylons to help with the making of the parallititan humerus mold.
Needless to say it was a strange request and I thought humor would be a good ice breaker. So I wrote the e-mail and sent it out to the staff at the museum.
Our PR person has a good sense of humor and lots of contacts in the Phila. area. So she forwarded the request to a guy named Kline at the Inquirer. Kline writes a local interests kind of column with a humorous bent. This Sunday's paper will have my e-mail in it.
This is strange to me but what the hell.
Remember how much trouble I got into for the Urinator article?
Chewie
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("Urinator" was the name he jokingly gave a dinosaur he found in Montana a few years back. The museum was not amused when the Philly Inquirer reported this as a tongue-in-cheek "fact".)
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Hi All,
I recently sent an all staff e-mail requesting nylons to help with the making of the parallititan humerus mold.
Needless to say it was a strange request and I thought humor would be a good ice breaker. So I wrote the e-mail and sent it out to the staff at the museum.
Our PR person has a good sense of humor and lots of contacts in the Phila. area. So she forwarded the request to a guy named Kline at the Inquirer. Kline writes a local interests kind of column with a humorous bent. This Sunday's paper will have my e-mail in it.
This is strange to me but what the hell.
Remember how much trouble I got into for the Urinator article?
Chewie
~~
("Urinator" was the name he jokingly gave a dinosaur he found in Montana a few years back. The museum was not amused when the Philly Inquirer reported this as a tongue-in-cheek "fact".)
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Date: 2001-12-14 06:47 am (UTC)You'll have to let us know what the artical says!
Wish him luck with making a mold! It doesn't sounds like an easy thing!
Cute nicknames?
Date: 2001-12-14 09:22 am (UTC)("Urinator" came about because he found it while.. umm.. answering the call of nature! hehehe)
Re: Cute nicknames?
Date: 2001-12-14 03:25 pm (UTC)he found it while taking a leak?!?!?!
ROFLAO
~wipes away tears from laughing while gasping~
CRAPasaurus? What was he doing while he found THIS one??
;)
Re: Cute nicknames?
Date: 2001-12-15 09:44 am (UTC)No..I call it "crapasaurus" because it's covered in gypsum, which basically works like water/ice - it gets into cracks, expands as it grows, and blows things apart. It also sorta "chews" up the surface. So you end up with a fossil that has a layer of fossil - a layer of gypsum - another layer of fossil..it gets really hard to figure out what's what, and it pretty much destroyed any confidence I had as a fossil preparator.
And I hold a grudge. :)
Re: Cute nicknames?
Date: 2001-12-15 01:38 pm (UTC)I would hold a grudge too!!