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  1. @mushi can you please explain? https://derpiboo.ru/127129

    Thursday, 19-Jun-14 01:13:03 UTC from web
    1. @pony that chemical is called "Cummingtonite" http://pny.lv/322n

      Thursday, 19-Jun-14 01:14:46 UTC from web
      1. @rarity Wat? *clicks* WAT?!

        Thursday, 19-Jun-14 01:15:21 UTC from web
    2. @pony http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cummingtonite

      Thursday, 19-Jun-14 01:15:24 UTC from web
      1. @mushi Wow! lol

        Thursday, 19-Jun-14 01:16:18 UTC from web
        1. @pony mineralogists are silly

          Thursday, 19-Jun-14 01:17:31 UTC from web
          1. @mushi totally

            Thursday, 19-Jun-14 01:18:20 UTC from web
        2. @pony mineralogists name the minerals based rather on a random freature of them on they chimical structure. i wonder what was the context on that one

          Thursday, 19-Jun-14 01:18:34 UTC from web
          1. @mushi "named after the town of Cummington, Massachusetts, where it was discovered" I guess

            Thursday, 19-Jun-14 01:19:31 UTC from web
            1. @pony suuuuuuure, that is it

              Thursday, 19-Jun-14 01:21:00 UTC from web
              1. @mushi lel. It's properly cited in the wiki. I have a friend whose last name is Cummings

                Thursday, 19-Jun-14 01:25:02 UTC from web
                1. @pony well, his highschool time might have been funny

                  Thursday, 19-Jun-14 01:26:28 UTC from web
                  1. @mushi He's my age. Most folks my age didn't have very debaucherous high schools, but I'm sure he must have gotten the odd comment about it. It's not an uncommon name though, in any case.

                    Thursday, 19-Jun-14 01:29:18 UTC from web
    3. @pony I should teach this joke to my environmental scientist wife.

      Thursday, 19-Jun-14 01:17:31 UTC from web