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Yellow . . . yellow . . . yellow . . . Oh yea . . .

Absolutely. And that OSU running back sure is very, very good. Am also looking forward to watching FSU's new running back,Dalvin Cook, again next year (he'll only be a spohmore!).

I was in a real quandry over this, but it resolved itself, as it turns out. OK, I went to FSU both BBB (Before Bobby Bowden, for a BA) and DBB (During Bobby Bowden, for a MA). So I've been a Seminole since . . . ah . . . 1965. Told you I was old. I never particularly liked either Ohio State or Oregon, although I did live in Ohio (Cleveland) for 18 years, and managed to get tickets to an Ohio State - FSU game in Columbus sometime during the 1980s . . . . and I do have a good old friend from FSU who has lived in Oregon for nigh onto 40 years, and I've visited there, and it's nice . . . FSU's recent disasterous loss to Oregon, however, left a pretty bad taste in my mouth. Yeppers. But I decided I would root for Oregon anyway because that would make FSU look better. And besides, Urban Meyer used to coach at Florida, our deadly enemy. So that's how I started out, full of good and noble intentions. Then, when Ohio State scored their second touchdown I caught myself yelling "YES" and clapping my hands together. So I guess I disliked Oregon a lot more than I thought I did. So I gave up and allowed myself to hope that Oregon would get beat. Not necessarily that Ohio State would win. But that Oregon would get beat. By multiple touchdowns. And they did. As a result, frankly, I was happy that now Oregon knows how FSU felt after losing to them the way they did. I guess this is also confirmation of something I occasionally say . . . I never said I was nice. GO BUCKEYES!

I'd like to see the recent MFC red slag thread survive in the archive . . . once it's become quiet here.

Danny is a stone guy -- but even if he weren't, I'd say bloodstone too.

What he ^^^ said.

I couldn't agree with you more! An ACC sufferer.

For a minute there, that was really scary.

Are those a few red stripes as well? On the surface?

TGIF for sure. They say our high today will be 7, not counting wind chill. But I don't feel quite so put-upon now that I've seen that someone here is in South Dakota . . .

Thanks, Mike -- I've been trying to get that transcript for a little while. What a treat! And what was that about the gold ruby . . . ?

I have a diagram made by Brian Graham showing how nines were formed, but I can't "upload this type of file," here, whatever that means. Could I try to email it to you Steph, on the chance that you could get it to magically appear here? I think it would be interesting --

Sure is!

Picking one last nit, just want it to be clear that when I refer to MFC cut marks I'm not referring to anything that can be felt; generally they can only be seen. Like the one on the afore-posted green slag . . .

Kind of like the difference, in another medium, between (1) painting a colored patch on a marble with a brush -- the early ones -- and (2) spray-painting a patch on a marble with a spray gun -- the MK and Vitro way?

In conclusion, I'd just like to say that I think this number is a high one if we're talkin' your average wazoo.

But if veneering is a process, isn't a marble veneered even if only a patch has been applied? What else would you call it? (willing to entertain suggestions for a term)

The marble maybe acted as a weight? To make it easier to keep track of a lightweight thimble? I've never seen the combination myself.

Happy New Year!

Ditto.

That is NICE.

There are two labeled as "non-fluorescent yellow"" but the color photos in the book that I have leave a lot to be desired . . .

Whew. But while we're at it I should really thank you (all, but especially Mon), for sending me back to the MFC book (they did make an opaque lavender for a very little while when they introduced the purple onyx, so I don't yet have early onset anything yet, although it wouldn't be so early now), but mainly for prompting me to get out all my handgathered slags and really look at them again, one by one. Now I remember why I got so hung up on them for a while -- what nice marbles. Plus, I forgot I had a Persian turquoise I bought from Alan B. a good while ago. Felt like it was Christmas all over again. Except of course that got me wondering about early onset of something, all over again . . . P.S. I don't think your posts are hard to read, Mon . . .

That wouldn't surprise me at all. Especially set against the background of Peltier cerises; I've been privileged (well, I whined a lot) to see a letter setting out in some detail Pelt's trials and tribulations during the development period of their Cerises and the Prima Agates, and the extra expenses involved. Didn't MFC also make a few more hand-gathered opaque game marbles, like the yellow ones? I'm thinking of the baby blue . . . and lavender? I could be wrong. I certainly don't have any. Like Craig, I've been putting my rather messy red nines with my Akros. The very well-formed red nines are the problem for me. Their cut marks just don't look like MFC ones. So I've been keeping them "in the vicinity of" my Peltier box. As "regular" red slags, as opposed to cerises, which are a more orange-y red. And . . . just sayin' . . . "being in possession of a formula for transparent red" does not equate to "made red slags." Henry Hellmers (Akro's glass chemist), for example, was in possession of more than 2,000 formulas for glass of various colors, including old German ones -- and the ones for MFC bricks (referred to in Hellmers' batch book as "carnelian," and ultimately Leighton formulas) And as Galen pointed out, so far we have no evidence that Leighton or any of the companies he started actually produced a transparent red. Chartreuse is the most oddly-colored melted pontil I have. So maybe Barberton. Others have any melted-pontil-color weirdos? But if I've learned anything at all while I've been slipping and sliding down this strange road of life, it's that anything can happen. So I have no problem entertaining the notion that MFC may have had red slags (among other currently-unknown things) on an experimental basis -- even though no transparent red cullet has been found on the site. To date. And there seems to be no evidence of the manufacture of transparent red slags in the exising company archives, which are remarkably complete. Much as I would like for them to have made some. Check that. Much as I would like for them to have made some and for me to have a few. Or a lot.