“Funny you should say that, Mr. Frog, but those coffee grounds we found at the murder… Well, they were Wilkins Coffee. Now see, the thing that bothers me, is that the victim… Well, he didn’t drink Wilkins.”
NOW WITH EXPLANATION:
#The muppets#A bit of context for ppl not up on their 400-level Muppet Production Lore:#one of Jim Henson’s early advertising gigs was shilling Wilkins Coffee with these two puppet characters#Where the character who liked the coffee always enacted physical violence against the one who didn’t#the character is assumed to be a proto-version of Kermit a lot bc the puppets are broadly shaped the same#But Kermit was already being used for talk shows & local TV broadcasts by then#and even at the time the puppets were visibly different#The other layer of Joak here is that the screenshot is from a scene in The Great Muppet Caper#where Peter Falk plays a Columbo-type figure and every “deduction” he makes is ludicrously wrong#So in conclusion: the coffee promotion themed slapstick has escalated to Real Life Murder#and Faux-Columbo has INCORRECTLY pegged Kermit as the killer (x)
oh!
i saw the great muppet caper years ago, before i’d watched any Columbo.
Ice (natural ice) is also a rock! Igneous to be exact
As a geologist I disagree!
Let’s start with minerals:
Naturally occurring
Abiogenic
Solid at room temperature
Defined chemical formula
Crystalline structure
Ice is not a mineral because it is not sold at room temperature (approximately 70F), a requirement that many people leave out for some reason.
A rock is a naturally occurring solid coherent aggregate of minerals. Since ice isn’t a mineral, it can’t fulfill that role. So no, ice is not a rock or a mineral.
That said, the USGS technically considers glacier ice to be a rock, but they classify it as metaphoric, not igneous. Igneous rocks form from molten rocks. Water is not molten rock.
In my geology classes – Otago University, 1996–1999 – we were expressly taught that ice is a mineral. “Solid” was a requirement, but “…at room temperature” was not (since geological processes seldom happen in rooms). Glaciers, then, were sedimentary rocks, formed by the aggregation and consolidation of ice crystals in the form of snowflakes. I didn’t end up graduating in geology due to burnout, but that’s a thing I remember from class.
Logically (I would reason, but our professors didn’t say this) ice formed by the freezing of liquid water in situ would then have to be considered igneous rock; that would include ice on puddles and some sea ice, at least the fraction of sea ice that didn’t form by breaking off the ends of glaciers.
To really stretch the definitions of terms, though: igneous rocks come in two kinds, namely plutonic rocks which have solidified far underground due to high pressure, and volcanic rocks which have solidified on the Earth’s surface due to falling temperature. Of these two, ice on puddles would be…?
(Pretty sure if I’d actually pointed this out, they’d have contracted the definition of “volcanic” to specify that a volcano has to be involved. The occasion never arose.)
no one points out ‘at room temperature’ because 'at room temperature’ does not exist as a requisite (taught across west-central USA, 2013-2023 from personal experience). it must have a crystalline structure and be solid at some point at any given temperature and pressure but not at strictly 'room’/70F parameters.
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