----- Original Message ---- From: "TEXTIQUE@aol.com" <TEXTIQUE@aol.com> >>>If you do not believe the words of those who research the minute details of conservation then I suppose there is no way to convince you to study the other opinions. What are you talking about? You posted a study that suggests a tombstone would be completely dissolved in 8 hours if covered with shaving cream. Are these the "minute details of conservation" that I am supposed to take seriously? I am all far studying the other opinions, but what I am not for is believing the patently absurd just because some ostensible "authority" said it...especially when the things they are saying are demonstrably false or in clear error, and have already been demonstrated to be in clear error. Sorry, but a tombstone completely melting due to shaving cream in 8 hours is hardly the "research of minute details of conservation" that you would like to hold them up to be. >>>Call a stone conservator.....those who do study various chemical effects on stone if you do not believe other's research. I have called dozens. None of them have any evidence that shaving cream harms tombstones. And the reason they don't is because it is a hoax. >>>It is people like you who, in the name of stubbornness, ruin it for the future. Ruin what for the future? What am I ruining? What is the "it" to which you refer? The only thing I am ruining is the hoax that shaving cream harms tombstones. Esther S.

Mmmm...maybe this disagreement could be taken off list? Accusations and counter accusations aren't really what this list is about. :-) ----- Original Message ----- From: Esther Simmons To: ohallen@rootsweb.com Sent: Monday, October 30, 2006 5:16 PM Subject: Re: [OHALLEN] Shaving Cream on Tombstones-my last response ----- Original Message ---- From: "TEXTIQUE@aol.com" <TEXTIQUE@aol.com> >>>If you do not believe the words of those who research the minute details of conservation then I suppose there is no way to convince you to study the other opinions. What are you talking about? You posted a study that suggests a tombstone would be completely dissolved in 8 hours if covered with shaving cream. Are these the "minute details of conservation" that I am supposed to take seriously? I am all far studying the other opinions, but what I am not for is believing the patently absurd just because some ostensible "authority" said it...especially when the things they are saying are demonstrably false or in clear error, and have already been demonstrated to be in clear error. Sorry, but a tombstone completely melting due to shaving cream in 8 hours is hardly the "research of minute details of conservation" that you would like to hold them up to be. >>>Call a stone conservator.....those who do study various chemical effects on stone if you do not believe other's research. I have called dozens. None of them have any evidence that shaving cream harms tombstones. And the reason they don't is because it is a hoax. >>>It is people like you who, in the name of stubbornness, ruin it for the future. Ruin what for the future? What am I ruining? What is the "it" to which you refer? The only thing I am ruining is the hoax that shaving cream harms tombstones. Esther S. ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to OHALLEN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message