Nerd Word of the Day: Cummingtonight
Cummingtonight: (′kəm·iŋ·tə′nīt) A basic silicate of magnesium and ferrous iron,
(Mg, Fe)7Si8O22(OH)2,
that is an amphibole mineral similar to anthophyllite but monoclinic and with more iron, and that occurs as fibres and lamellae in metamorphic rocks.
This mineral was found by Dr. J. Porter in a town called Cummington, Massachusetts. He named the mineral after the town, adding the -ite suffix to signify that it’s a mineral.
I saw this word in a post on Digg that was titled: She Will Definitely Be Cummingtonight. I don’t get the joke.. how can a woman be a mineral? Hmmm…
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Greatest Potential on 
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muggins on 
[BORED] ore [boar]
There’s a rare earth metal called holmium, and listening to Beatles records we always thought it would be great if an oxide containing it were called “holmitite”. (This is what happens when guitar players are also geology geeks.)
OMG that’s it’s real name? Wow… I bet there are a few great jokes around the lab with that name. Good find Marina, good find.
Hears a name…Ave Maria – Hail Mary, Mother of Christ (God) – The Blessed Virgin…rocks off to MARINA and her hot**for** words
Rock Salt
I remember when I was in high school, and my church went on a trip to Amish Penn. We went through Blue Ball, and a couple other funky towns. When we stopped, we were in Intercourse, so I took a picture of my girl and me, sent it home to Mama entitled “Jan and me in Intercourse.”
I guess a ‘church’ field trip would never take you to Hell, Michigan.
{Che thinks Bob was more or less on a FEEL trip with his girl}with the 4-F club….
I use to be in that club, didn’t make me popular with the girls though. Unless of course that is what they wanted.
They probably wouldn’t make a stop in Defiance, Ohio either, I figure.
Would that be named after Hell in Norway where there is a real feel-god factor?
pick the rocks and make some fields
Oh, I was thinking of something else when I read the word.
Uuuh…
I like it when you get technical with your chemicals.
Perhaps he thought her a real gem. Or maybe she just looked marbleous.
Bob, we have competition!
Not really. I just recycle the same ol schist.
Gneiss one.
The Morphelino the polymerrier.
There are several chemical reasons why he might have failed in his endeavor to ensure that “She Will Definitely Be Cummingtonight.” — all from this reference (mentioned by Heart♥ForWords in Comment 6):
1) He used the arsole.
2) He had only a dickite (tiny dick) and could not generate any clitoriacetal (clitoral action).
3) He fukugetin (f’ed a tin) with a vaginatin (a tin-can used as a vagina).
4) He had no erectone let alone have any apolloane or rocketene. Consequently, he was not even able to get clitorin (generate enough arousal in her to cause the clitoris to go in under the hood) let alone get any clitoriacetal (clitoral action).
5) He did not eat any bon-bons and so lacked performic acid.
6) His darlingines (cooings) and jesterones (jokes) left her dead.
I am bored now, but if others want to continue, here are some more chemical names from that reference: Bellendine, sex, Lovenone, Inflatene, Cumene, BIG CHAP, ASS, Sex Muscle Abnormal Protein 5, Sillimanite, nun, PORN, CuNT.
Assuming that that reference is accurate, doesn’t that reference deserve a shout-out of its own?
“A basic silicate of magnesium and ferrous iron…”
Ferrous iron? What other kind of iron is there?
A niblick.
Ferric, as in terriFerric.
That reminds me, I suppose you’ve seen the computer mouse specially designed for women
?
How can a woman be a mineral?
When she dances to Rock-n-Roll.
lol my pervert mind… and i dont get the joke either, it has bad/good grammar which makes it dumb…
Yea! If she was a mineral she would have to be Silicone lol
Rock -a – bye BABY…head – quarters
Geologists get some pretty good jokes, apparently.
What has Stonehenge got to do with geology (other than it was built with large rocks)?
Rocks speak, sometimes. There’s not only an archeological question about Stonehenge. But a geological one too. Geology tells us that the stones are not native to the Salisbury Plain. You may find this article interesting. Some say the rocks were originally polished like mirrors and transported on the plain (over a distance of 120+ miles) not by humans, but by glaciers.
How?
Easy.
Her last name has to be Al.
And she has to be employed as a miner.
Happy Summer Solstice.
Hmmm. Al is the chemical symbol for aluminum, so I guess she couldn’t be married to the tin man. But that’s another story. Okay, here’s a riddle for ya, w5:
Q: Which chord resonates loudest when you drop a piano down a mine-shaft?
B Flat
B Minor
Uh, you’re overthinking this one, w5.
Answer: A-flat minor.
Miner.
It’s easy enough to assume that this is a monoclinic amphibole by its description, but I’d never take Marina for granite.
I used your granite phrase in a tweet! Thanks!
You’re most welcome my dear teacher.
I’d happily give you permission to use it had I not already stolen it from my Geology professor Dr. Ken Miller (credit where credit is due, although a bit ex post facto
).
Cheers,
-p9
Here’s another way to use granite in the context of this post: She Will Definitely Be Cummingtonight Because … I Be The Granite Tonight!
Rock on!
I would like to fix the “sound” in my remark: the “be” in “because” is getting in the way; better to assert: She Will Definitely Be Cummingtonight Cause … I Be The Granite Tonight!
One can learn a lot at HFW, it’s a real ‘andy-site.
{
Also it's great there are people here who will actually get that joke!}teacher, why do minerals scream “ohhh myyyy gawwdddd
” everytime they get their rocks off 
Oh, you know how. But thank you anyway.
Dear Marina,
“how can a woman be a mineral? Hmmm…”
Actually, a woman’s bone mineral density is very important. Some women don’t get enough calcium, vitamin D and other minerals and suffer from osteoporosis. They suffer from brittle bones and suffer fractures. So, it’s good to enjoy eating vegetables and to have a glass of non-fat milk once in a while.
So a part of all of us are minerals. I really enjoy the wonderful way you are put together, minerals and all!
Seesixcm6
According to the Crapinon of the geologist that got off of his rocks, you mix two ounces of Erotic Acid with three ounces of Commic Acid, wherein Fukugetin saw Dickite Fukalite, whereby she will definitely be Cummingtonight.
Hey, don’t look at me like that.
It’s all in the scientific literature
http://www.chm.bris.ac.uk/sillymolecules/sillymols1.htm
Thanks for the link — see Comment 18 above.
That link is hilarious; reminds me of the story of a man who poisoned his wife with a razor blade by giving her arsenic.
Marina’s going to hate me for this …too bad – she does already –
quote from the above link:-
lmao
Bob, I don’t think it’s you she hates, but the bad puns. She’s hardly spoken to me since I asked if [eugenics] was the study of Yevtushenko’s poetry.
By the way, did we miss “Mozambique?” I think we hit everywhere else…
I was racking my brains for something with Mozambique but all I could think of were some oblique remarks about mosquitos. I guess it’s just not ambiqueuous enough to use for puns.
BTW, I thought Marina hates me because I’m a known associate of an exiled Welsh dragon.
Maybe it wasn’t a joke and just a simple statement of fact!
Probably by some guy that just got his free, three week trial of “Extenze” and he is feeling confidant that he will be up to the task. 
That, or he just got a brand new kick-starter for his tongue 
Whatever the guy was after, he reports that he did not get it:
If it was not a joke, he failed in his endeavor. If it was a joke that even his “she” did not get, then it just goes to illustrate today’s Quote:
Happy Father’s Day, Bee!
Hey, thanx, P9 and back at ya if, uggh, applicable
. I grilled sirloins for dinner and that was ALL I had! I felt like a caveman and it was great! 
Does steak contain tryptophan
cause bee is about to fall out…. 
in the morning, bright and early 
Oh, Marina…
Looks like borite to me.. I used to sell crystals.
It looks mafic to me, judging by the iron oxide color.
(Magnesium, Iron)7 Silicon8 Oxygen22 (Hydroxide) Can’t you feel the chemistry between us?
Regarding what the joke was about, maybe since the mineral has Si, the author must have thought it was a form of diamond, and tried to connect it with the expression “diamonds are a girls best friend”?
Si… Still part of quartz.. Maybe he was just thick.
Marilyn Monroe – Diamonds Are A Girls Best Friend
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