This is Throwback Thursday #288. In these, we look back into the past at ESCONI specifically and Earth Science in general. If you have any contributions, (science, pictures, stories, etc …), please send them to esconi.info@gmail.com. Thanks! email:esconi.info@gmail.com.
Here are a few limericks from the December 1999 edition of the newsletter. The attibution “Complements of ‘The Dalys’” probably refers to Jim Daly (and his family). Jim is listed as a member from 1983 until 2018.
FOR THE FUN OF IT!
THERE ONCE WAS A ROCKHOUND NAMED STOUT,
WHO ON OLD QUARRY WALLS CLIMBED ABOUT,
WHEN SPYING SOME GARNET,
SLIPPED RIGHT OFF, GOSH DARN IT,
NOW WE ALL DO WITHOUT STOUT ABOUT.
THERE WAS A YOUNG ROCKHOUND NAMED KENT,
WHOSE CHISELS WERE CROOKED AND BENT,
WHEN WORKING A VEIN,
HE SAW WITH DISTAIN,
THE CRYSTALS DIDN’T COME OUT, THEY WENT.
Larry Rush:
“Noel Coward thought that work was more fun than play, but he never. ever worked in the mines.”
COMPLIMENTS OF ‘THE DALYS’
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