Orogeny, erogeny wasn't Re: Slide rules
Peter D. Tillman
"Eloise Mason (nee Beltz-Decker)" <elo...@ripco.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 25 Sep 2003, David Tate wrote:
> > alei...@ptah.u.arizona.edu (Andrea Leistra) wrote in message
> > news:<bkv4n5$pnd$1...@oasis.ccit.arizona.edu>...
> > > In article <3F723CC4...@canada.com>,
> > > Danny Sichel <dsi...@canada.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > >...okay, so that's the geologist's view of violence. What is the
> > > >geologist's view of sex?
MINERS DO IT DEEPER!
(seen on innumerable pickups in every mining camp)
Or, for a dull fellow, "not the sharpest pick in the peck"....
> > >
> > > Subduction, surely. Plates sliding against each other, slipping under
> > > each other, generating friction, melting. Making the Earth move.
> > >
> > > Even the name is suggestive.
> >
> > My wife's favorite T-shirt reads:
> >
> > "Subduction leads to erogeny."
>
> Correcting to be polite: orogeny.
> Means 'creation of rocks'.
er, "mountains", more or less:
http://www.bartleby.com/61/54/O0125400.html
Greek "oros" = mountain
ObSF: Dave Duncan, ex-petroleum geologist, claims that he that he once
submitted an outline of a plate-tectonics based novel, but his
publisher felt it was "too slow-moving." <rimshot>
Cheers -- Pete Tillman
Captain Button
ObOtherSF: Didn't the Alfred Bester tribute in one of the Callahan's Bar
stories use the old geologist's pun of describing a young woman as
"spathic"?
(Which means "showing good cleavage", IIRC.)
--
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Keith Morrison
> ObSF: Dave Duncan, ex-petroleum geologist, claims that he that he once
> submitted an outline of a plate-tectonics based novel, but his
> publisher felt it was "too slow-moving." <rimshot>
When I was volunteering briefly at a TV station, we were filming
a public ceremony and the director tells me over my headset to
pan across the crowd "slow, glacially slow".
The A/director starts laughing and says "You're talking to a
geologist! You'll either see it whip across or not move at all."
--
Keith
John M. Gamble
Algis Budrys did it first in *Michaelmas*, Spider Robinson criticized
him for using it when he reviewed the book, and then used it himself
in the Callahan's Bar story. The criticism had to do with the lack of
definition. So Robinson defines it in the story, and it killed the joke,
in my opinion.
--
-john
February 28 1997: Last day libraries could order catalogue cards
from the Library of Congress.
Chuk Goodin
>stories use the old geologist's pun of describing a young woman as
>"spathic"?
>
>(Which means "showing good cleavage", IIRC.)
Tiny nit: Wasn't it in a Lady Sally story?
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chuk