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 ==Frank Zappa about the origins of zircon as conceptual continuity==
-''"We had a piano player named [[Terry Wimberly]]. And Wimberly always wanted to be the missing link between Fats Domino and Otis Blackwell [...]. And he decided one day that he wasn't funky enough in his normal white boy condition, living there in the desert. He decided in his infinite wisdom that he was going to get all the things he needed to be more like Fats Domino. [...] I don't how he did it, folks— He got a hundred dollars together to buy a hundred dollar zircon ring. Do you know how big— what size zircon you can buy for a hundred dollars? So he had this enormous, cheap-looking, obviously-fraudulent diamond sort of thing on his little finger that he used to wear to school all the time. And so, since that moment, I've always considered the zircon to be the symbol of wealth—not wealth, but the ultimate cheapness as applied to the back of a comic book. And it was cheap grandeur, you know? The grandeur that we can all afford, but if you dare to afford it you can make yourself look just like Terry Wimberly playing the piano [...]. And it helped his piano technique tremendously. He could play triplets like nobody's business with that thing on his finger."''<ref>Frank Zappa, interviewed on WABX, Detroit, 2 November 1973:https://www.donlope.net/fz/notes/Over-Nite_Sensation.html#Dinah</ref> (Zappa tells the same anecdote in the 1974 interviews ''[[Frank Zappa - Funny Mother]]'' and ''[[Grand Mother]]'', both by Chris Lloyd.
+''"We had a piano player named [[Terry Wimberly]]. And Wimberly always wanted to be the missing link between Fats Domino and Otis Blackwell [...]. And he decided one day that he wasn't funky enough in his normal white boy condition, living there in the desert. He decided in his infinite wisdom that he was going to get all the things he needed to be more like Fats Domino. [...] I don't how he did it, folks— He got a hundred dollars together to buy a hundred dollar zircon ring. Do you know how big— what size zircon you can buy for a hundred dollars? So he had this enormous, cheap-looking, obviously-fraudulent diamond sort of thing on his little finger that he used to wear to school all the time. And so, since that moment, I've always considered the zircon to be the symbol of wealth—not wealth, but the ultimate cheapness as applied to the back of a comic book. And it was cheap grandeur, you know? The grandeur that we can all afford, but if you dare to afford it you can make yourself look just like Terry Wimberly playing the piano [...]. And it helped his piano technique tremendously. He could play triplets like nobody's business with that thing on his finger."''<ref>Frank Zappa, interviewed on WABX, Detroit, 2 November 1973:https://www.donlope.net/fz/notes/Over-Nite_Sensation.html#Dinah</ref> (Zappa tells the same anecdote in the 1974 interviews ''[[Frank Zappa – Funny Mother]]'' and ''[[Grand Mother]]'', both by Chris Lloyd.
 ==References==

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 [[URSULA MINOR "The Little Dip"]] [0-8 / 75º-90º], one of the constellations in the "[[One Size Fits All]]" (1975) "universe", has a star named "[[ZIRCON]] (The Nose Star)", being the pivotal North Star.
-[[wikipedia:Zircon|Zircon]] is a mineral.
+[[wikipedia:Zircon|Zircon]] is a mineral. It is referenced also in the following Zappa songs:
-''"We had a piano player named [[Terry Wimberly]]. And Wimberly always wanted to be the missing link between Fats Domino and Otis Blackwell [...]. And he decided one day that he wasn't funky enough in his normal white boy condition, living there in the desert. He decided in his infinite wisdom that he was going to get all the things he needed to be more like Fats Domino. [...] I don't how he did it, folks— He got a hundred dollars together to buy a hundred dollar zircon ring. Do you know how big— what size zircon you can buy for a hundred dollars? So he had this enormous, cheap-looking, obviously-fraudulent diamond sort of thing on his little finger that he used to wear to school all the time. And so, since that moment, I've always considered the zircon to be the symbol of wealth—not wealth, but the ultimate cheapness as applied to the back of a comic book. And it was cheap grandeur, you know? The grandeur that we can all afford, but if you dare to afford it you can make yourself look just like Terry Wimberly playing the piano [...]. And it helped his piano technique tremendously. He could play triplets like nobody's business with that thing on his finger."''<ref>Frank Zappa, interviewed on WABX, Detroit, 2 November 1973:https://www.donlope.net/fz/notes/Over-Nite_Sensation.html#Dinah</ref>
+* ''[[The Poodle Lecture]]'': [[God]] needs a pair of zircon encrusted [[tweezers]].
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 ==See also==
 * ''"[[Tweezers|zircon encrusted tweezers]]"''.

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 [[wikipedia:Zircon|Zircon]] is a mineral.
-Also see: "[[Tweezers|zircon encrusted tweezers]]".
+''"We had a piano player named [[Terry Wimberly]]. And Wimberly always wanted to be the missing link between Fats Domino and Otis Blackwell [...]. And he decided one day that he wasn't funky enough in his normal white boy condition, living there in the desert. He decided in his infinite wisdom that he was going to get all the things he needed to be more like Fats Domino. [...] I don't how he did it, folks— He got a hundred dollars together to buy a hundred dollar zircon ring. Do you know how big— what size zircon you can buy for a hundred dollars? So he had this enormous, cheap-looking, obviously-fraudulent diamond sort of thing on his little finger that he used to wear to school all the time. And so, since that moment, I've always considered the zircon to be the symbol of wealth—not wealth, but the ultimate cheapness as applied to the back of a comic book. And it was cheap grandeur, you know? The grandeur that we can all afford, but if you dare to afford it you can make yourself look just like Terry Wimberly playing the piano [...]. And it helped his piano technique tremendously. He could play triplets like nobody's business with that thing on his finger."''<ref>Frank Zappa, interviewed on WABX, Detroit, 2 November 1973:https://www.donlope.net/fz/notes/Over-Nite_Sensation.html#Dinah</ref>
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 [[wikipedia:Zircon|Zircon]] is a mineral.
-Also see: "[[Tweezers (CC)|zircon encrusted tweezers]]".
+Also see: "[[Tweezers|zircon encrusted tweezers]]".
 [[Category:One Size Fits All (The List)]]
 [[Category:Scientists and scientific concepts]]
 [[Category:Conceptual Continuity]]

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		+	[[URSULA MINOR "The Little Dip"]] [0-8 / 75º-90º], one of the constellations in the "[[One Size Fits All]]" (1975) "universe", has a star named "[[ZIRCON]] (The Nose Star)", being the pivotal North Star.
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		+	Zircon is a natural stone often used to imitate diamonds. Zircon is somewhat soft so avoid scratches and sharp blows. Avoid hot water and household chemicals. Brown Zicon is usually heat treated to change them to colorless or blue Zircon. Blue stones that revert to brown will regain the blue if reheated. Blue Zircon reheated in the presence of oxygen will change to a golden yellow. Zircon will have more wear on its facets than diamond. Zircon is imitated by colorless glass and synthetic spinel. Zircon is found in Australia, Brazil, Cambodia, France, Myanmar, Nigeria, Sri Lanka and Tanzania.
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