Hi Andrew,
 
Well done - that was really good ! Are you volunteering  to be the type
specimen ?? Anyone got any formalin handy ??
 
Take care !
 
Brian
 
At 05:46 PM 5/14/98 -0500, you wrote:
>(To be sung plaintively)
>
>I Want to Be Fossilized
>
>Eternity calls out to me:
>Oh, why not immortality?
>Lao Tzu said so!
>
>Yes, let me be silicified:
>It won't be half so bad I've died,
>If I'm preserved.
>
>Silicified must be my fate:
>It's better than my present state,
>And that's for sure.
>
>I'll fit into my chosen place:
>Type specimen of Human Race,
>My fame secure.
>
>Andrew K. Rindsberg
>Geological Survey of Alabama
>
>
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