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[John Lacey]

I'm shocked, SHOCKED!! at all this dirt[y] talk on a family-oriented list :P





David Mintz wrote:
> On Tue, 1 Feb 2005, Rahmin Pavlovic wrote:
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>>On Tue, 1 Feb 2005 13:20 , David Mintz <dmintz at davidmintz.org> sent:
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>>>No, not the word "dirt," but its referent -- the substance itself! (-:
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>>I've thought about this, and I can't mentally separate 'dirt' from 'the earth'.
>>So, assuming our planet was as torrential as venus, I would assume that 'dirt'
>>came into existence once the storms died down.
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> Yeah, I would assume that the very early Earth is too hot for dirt to
> exist as such, and that it forms some time after things cool down, and
> that there's a technical term for that period -- a term one could throw
> around next time someone uses the expression "older than dirt" (-:
>