Ted, opal o' mine

Whilst you may cinnabar to this thread continuing, I'm afraid I feel an epoch ending. To be frank, you have lead the race from the start and arsenolite for stales at the end of the tunnel. I feel orthoclase to calling it quits - you've won the nickel.

Illite to say however, your posts stilbite, they are pure gold and obviously the product of a very erdite person. They float like ice upon the water of my hackley attempts. You take punning to alluvial that's not been seen before and seen fit to liberite this poor writer's creative juices from their previous minium.

Ironic as it may seem, uvite to call yourself the master of geological threads - and you're not even a geologist! Nobody would dare call you a pussy - you're nepheline.

I fervanite hope that this is not to be continued but natron would understand it if you felt forsterite.

I am now jaded and would like to call a holtite here. I'm that tired I don't even have the energy to fornacite.

Good niter

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