Re: Don's blog

From: don findlay (don_at_tower.net.au)
Date: 08/01/04 

Date: 1 Aug 2004 00:25:19 -0700

Well, it looks like we've crossed a rubicon.of sorts, Jo now, is
telling me to give it a miss and saying that the topic is
mind-numbingly ("splittingly") boring, and couldn't we all have some
other topic instead. I suggested my plate tectonics questions must be
too easy. "No", she says (they're not difficult), "we're just bored
with the same old questions, for which you want new answers, and a
few people on a Net newsgroup aren't providing." But I don't keep
asking old questions, I keep asking new ones as they occur to me. New
ones to me anyway. Maybe I'm just a slow learner. Maybe I'm just
catching up to where everybody else is. Maybe everybody knows there
are no answers to these questions, but that doesn't matter so long as
everyone keeps Mum about it. Certainly because of the format of
Googlegroup all the previous questions get lugged along with each new
one. Jo of course, previously being a teacher, has probably heard
them all before, and as well (she says) has plenty of others of her
own. Well, in the "You gotta show me" stakes, ...in the
"I'll-show-you-mine-if-you-show-me-yours", I've kept my side of the
bargain. ...But, ..women! (Them Missourri gals). George has it
right, heading off down to Florida, when he fancies a bit of horse -
though I don't why he fancies horses. "Fillies", he says. But I
know, ...and you know, ... Well, I guess he should know, since it's
him dealing, ... It's their birthday today too apparently, all over
the world. Fancy that.. Hit with a Chinese Horroscope. (Hey,
George!) Meanwhile People on newsgroups aren't providing any,
...and this means I (and people like me) ain't *Gitt'n'* enny!
And that pisses me off.

So, ...Ruby's Con and not gitt'n any and what's to be done about it
(apart from not falling in without a lifebelt of sorts. Well, I
reckon another tack is needed. We need to close this chapter, and
focus on the main game. I don't know exactly what that main game is,
Maybe a Life, ...NOw wouldn't something worthwhile like that be good.
 But in the meantime, since my site is getting up there with the worst
of them, it will probably need some upgrading. There's the crumpling
of mountain belts that leave them flat to deal with, fill out, ..And
how the lower mantle breaks through the upper mantle, and where, and
why, and how it all fits in with the growth and the twist ...and how
mountains are still way up there when they shouldn't be, and all that
stuff about ore deposits to pick up again, and where they fit in the
picture. And how you recognise where's the best places to look to
make money. $Munn-Y. (chant: The munny that makes the world go
round, the munny that makes people rich, ..the bread and the dosh the
leuchre and tosh, that transforms a nice girl to a bitch). Money
that makes peepul rich.. And the poor, poor. And how exciting all
of *that* is, when all of *this* is so boring. The WURLD needs me,
even if the Lass frum Missourri doesn't. And Carsten. And George.
And Alan. And Rod, Rob, Bob, Slob and Mob (and Shane, Shayne, Wayne
and Duane) ..and Stu. And plate tectonics. And the Mining industry.
  If anyone's reading this (and of course I don't believe for a moment
they are - why would they after all, since it's all mindsplittingly
boring),... here's a secret:- this is the one that the mining industry
doesn't like most of all:- <http://users.indigo.net.au/don/bhill.jpg>
 It wasn't exactly where I came in (though it was pretty close to it),
but it sure as bloody hell was where I went out. You wouldn't
believe how angry putting it in a nutshell like that made some people,
especially those who worked on the deposit. And all the other ore
deposits too. Me? Never been there. Or here, or most places.
Don't have to. Why would you want to when it's staring you in the
face like that. There's a whole CSIRO still trying to work out why
Broken Hill, a supergiant orebody is there and trying to raise Big
Dollars to explain it.. They say it's to find out, so they can apply
their knowledge to finding others, and "Glass Earth" and all that kind
of stuff. But it's not. It's already found out. And as well, we've
put the hems on the evolution of gobal geology since the Mesozoic
right into the lower mantle. So what they're saying is a load of old
tosh. It's so they can spend in the supermarket and on branded
clothes and cars and holidays and other cool stuff at your expwense.
 And I did it for free, (Free Man.) thirty years ago, thinking I was
doing a public good and that people would be interested, most of all
people in the mining industry. Turned out when you put it in front
of them like that they were about as interested as Jo is in plate
tectonics. In direct proportion too, to the degree they should have
been, according to their 'position'. Milk Cow, ... and pretty
maids all in a row. Ah dear, ...mind you, I don't buy clothes, nor
go holidays. Maybe if I shaved now and then I might have a chance
amongst all those beautiful people with mobile phones and velcro
face-straps. I just annoy people on this newsgroup. Which is why
I'm so popular, and you're all agog reading this. Right? And
telling me to get stuffed. What a mob! Next they'll be saying it's
me that's the Pterrorist threatening their mindsful of peace and
security. And that I might even blow them up or something... But
it's *Them* sending *me* trojans down the line every second day, just
in case I become of a wayward disposition. What a laugh!

So Right. Closing the chapter on asking questions. No answers
here. ( 'George', you can come out now, the game's a bogey. As you
were. Every bit. (And always will be.) ( Mutt.)

(Where was I anyhow? Where was it I came in? Something went awry,
not exactly sure where... Getting Stu offside straight away, and now
Jo, and the prelates and the whole congregation in between.I think
we'll have to start all over again for the benefit of the interested
reader -see if we can't convert Carsten this time. (We must have
taken a wrong turning) (And Ralph, still peddling air) Won't do, to
leave them hanging like that. Well, are we sitting comfortably?
Then we'll begin, ... There's this popular theory, that the Earth is
divided into about eight - or is it twelve - major plates, that swan
around the globe, crashing here and bashing there and throwing up
mountains (Waow-Gee, Oh! already this is so exciting...!) , ...and
creating ocean floors and ....etc etc... ) (Coal Man, Coal)
(Coming soon to a newsgroup near you)

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