I sat down to type something up this morning when I realised today is a special day. This is post number 100! When I started writing, I thought it would be possible to post something every day. I guess I’m not big on commitment. The blog is now a full year old. But hell, 100 ain’t bad!So what’s new to report? The pearl world is starting to get a bit antsy. The September Hong Kong Fair, the world’s largest jewellery trade fair, is right around the corner. Will we hear about the doom and gloom, or could this be a turning point in the industry? I guess we’ll find out in less than a month. Then again, some of the big boys are finding out right now.
Both Paspaley’s APC and Robert Wan are working round the clock, under the table, pushing the South Sea and Tahitian pearl auction pre-sales. What has happened to the market when pearl farmers are chasing buyers, doing what they can to quickly return the system to the way it once was? That or at least to begin operating in a more traditional fashion?
Once upon a time, auctions were restricted to the biggest and best buyers. But some producers got a wee bit greedy and started to let just about anyone in. This, of course, drove prices up and upset the traditional distribution channels. The large processors were suddenly competing with their own customers—ouch! Talk about a kick in the arse.
So how do the growers make amends? How do they get those big buyers back, fat and happy? Hold pre-sales, of course! Invite the big buyers to Hong Kong a month before the real auction, let them bid on the lots they want, and let the rest of the buyers battle each other over the scraps in September. They’re splitting the buyers. That certainly is a lot easier than telling smaller customers their business at the auctions is no longer welcome.
It’s a win-win situation—at least for the growers and the big buyers. The buyers are no longer competing against their customers, and they’ll have goods prepared for the Hong Kong show, where they might be able to turn them over and go back to the growers for more.
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The professor wrote 100 articles all by himself? So I was right in thinking that all the other authors are actually alias. That's more than a little weird.
I didn't say I wrote 100 articles. I've posted 100 articles!
I would like to thank Bafoon, Perlmeister, the Watcher, he whom shall remain unnamed, and of course my beloved Olga Noitapitsnokovna.
Happy anniversary, Professor. I hope to read another hundred posts this year.
Congrats prof! Make it 1000 more!
My Dear Pearl Professor, I cannot hide it a moment longer. I love you, I love you, I love you, and the carefree quick-witted way you poke fun at the pearl world. There. It’s been said. (And I say this with all due respect, Vladimir). Dearest Professor, if you had been born in Moscow and went on two week vodka benders several times a year, you would be one hell of a cool Rooskie, let me tell you.
You would think that a gorgeous Russian woman like me was only looking for a man who resembles Brad Pitt or Vladimir Putin. This is absolutely not true! It doesn’t matter how tall, skinny; fat, short or hairy the Professor is-– what matters is his grooming. He makes sure he chooses clothing, like cheap Walmart socks, that accentuate his positive features and combs his grey hair, just so, to cover up that unsightly bald spot. He also tries to keep his body toned (just don't expect Daniel Craig or anything like that).
So Happy Anniversary Darling! May you post many more articles in the best of health. Now what are you getting me?
Well! Olga doesn't leave much to say, does she?
I am absolutely mad for the articles, but the comments have keep me giggling for a year. They are so clever, real repartee is so very welcome in such a place as a comments section. But for the loonies. I even laugh at the loony posters; some of them are so crazy-making.
Thank you for for all the low class recipes, so much lard! I had no idea such recipes existed. It is shocking. A kind of food por+no graphy. all that finger licking greasy goodness, the poors' answer to nutrition, thank you very much.
Oh. Alright. Happy anniversary.
xIt has been a lively year, thanks for all your mentions.
Happy aniversary to profesor of pearl. You wanting to buy some pearl? We having many beautiful one. Getting good deal if buying many at same time. No waiting buy now. Free shipping. We having natural black pearl from Vietnamese. Only we having this. Be first one to buying. We Chinese but having farm in Japan.
Dear Professor.
Please remove that last post. It is a blatant ad for their inferior pearls. I know them, but I spotted them for what they were and did not spend 1 penny. Don't let them defile your blog.
Thank you in advance for heeding my suggestion
Lady Jane Fox-Marten
Bonne anniversaire, Monsieur le Connard de Professeur! Ons a lu pas mal de articles pleins de conneries... mais ici c'est le summum ...Ballot! La bave du crapaud n'atteint pas la blanche colombe!! Serais tu belge, par hazard?
Nope!
Vive la Belgique dabord! La réalité et toi, vous ne vous entendez pas, n'est-ce pas? Les avocats ne t'ont ils pas encore trouvé? Et ta blonde, la belle Zeide Erskine?... elle n'a pas mal grossi ! Mais quelle poufiasse grosse plein de soupe!!! C'est vrai qu'elle a des jambes tres impressionnantes!! De plus, elle a une tête a faire sauter les plaques d'egouts! Hi hi chancieux toi!
Happy Anniversary you old bloke! Here's to 100 more posts.
Muy Feliz Aniversario a nuestro estimado colega el "Profesor Perlero". Siga realizando estas buenas entregas...
Un abrazo.
Muchas gracias!
Happy Anniversary Profesor
Sonny Sethi
Sto lat, sto lat,
Niech zyje, zyje nam.
Sto lat, sto lat,
Niech zyje, zyje nam,
Jeszcze raz, jeszcze raz, niech zyje, zyje nam,
Niech zyje nam!
May you live a hundred years.
Serdecznie dziękuję
Judging by the posts, the Pearl Professor is Australian. And let’s say the picture of the professor on the blog is really him. By the professor’s broad and inside knowledge, he must attend at least the big trade shows and some auctions. So if anybody wanted to nail the professor, he would go to trade shows and auctions, and look at the backs of men’s heads until he found one that looked like the photo. If the guy with that back-of-head had an Aussie accent, he would be the Pearl Professor. Busted!
I'd start with the Aussie accents and narrow it down that way.x
Obviously I know who the Professor is. Anyone who thinks they have enough money to get it out of me, please get in touch. (Sorry, koshechko, you know how it goes.)( xox).
Oh come now. You must realise that photo is from a much younger me :-p
The professor is not australian. australians(we) write a certain way and he's not australian. trust me.
What makes you think he is supposed to write as an Australian? If I were him and had any skill at writing, I'd write in standard American English.
He describes himself as having a penchant for writing, he seems to know a smattering of several languages. It is obvious he can hear language nuances.
That smattering of several languages could just mean he is good with Google. him obviously hearing language nuances is just an assumption of yours. Australians and the British structure their sentences differently and it's ingrained. the professor is not Australian nor is he British. He doesn't have the elements of their style.
So Ms White,
What nationality you think he is? Canadian? Maybe you can even tell what town he's from?
Besides, which posts did the prof actually write and which ones did he just put up for someone elxse? You can't always tell, except that there are several different posters using different writing styles. Which did he write? Or did he write them all in different styles, just to give this blog more mystery? Whose elements of style does who have on that blog?
Maybe we can figure out which one the prof is by his elements of style.
Using the Pearl Professor's writing, please demonstrate how it's not Australian.
what's this professor? playing musical chairs with the comments again? Bucky's first comment seems to have disappeared and now I read the second.... odd.
I am the aforementioned Buck Nacre. As far as I can recall, I've posted two comments, both of which I see in the stack above. The first is dated September 1 and the second September 3.
I said,"It is obvious he can hear language nuances".
You said, "obviously hearing language nuances is just an assumption of yours. "
Well if he wrote in all those styles, I'd said he did hear nuances.
I can read that these are different styles of writing. Is it all one clever person, or it is several people? Can you say that Not One of them is an Aussie?
Happy Anniversary Pearl Professor!
Your present is a ZESPA lesson for the day. (I've run out of beaded purses.)
Although water is mainly rated in the two categories deep and shallow, it also has two further aspects namely wild and quiet. Deep water accounts for the glow and shallow water makes for more of a bling. Quiet water refers to very dense nacre with well aligned aragonite crystal layers. As a result, the orient appears outside the pearl as a rainbow halo. Sometimes you even have to step back to see it. Quiet water makes pearls look bigger from a distance and creates the misty-glowing "old master painting" effect. Wild water is the result of aragonite layers that grew in opposite directions and makes the orient appear on the surface of the pearl (oil slick effect) or even inside the pearl depending on how close to the surface the phase
shift occurred. Niobium vapor deposition can also mimik shallow and wild water. Nothing can mimik deep and quite water.
WTF is a ZESPA lesson?? what's niobium vapour?
Jewelmer International Corporation would like to inform the users of pearl-professor.com that
the statement issued on August 29, 2009 at 7:07 a.m. by "La Gang Chez Jewelmer" is in no way related to Jewelmer International Corporation and/or to any of its personnel.
Furthermore, to the guilty party, "La Gang Chez Jewelmer", if you plan to impersonate a French speaking company, at least do it in proper French.
Merci pour avoir posé un commentaire sur ce blog. Vous êtes peut être Jacques, n’est ce pas ? Bien sur je ne crois pas que les commentaires écrits plus tôt viennent de Jewelmer, et le français utilisé était comme celui des canadiens, et non pas dans un bon français.
J’ai eu des nouvelles par Ana Maria Echevarria disant que les choses allaient bien pour vous, que vous étiez en train d’ouvrir de nouvelles boutiques, et que vos ventes progressaient : Félicitations !
Effisk,is that you, mon ami? What do you mean "at least do it in proper French??" What was it if not proper French? Did the gang chez Jewelmer forget to write "sacre(insert accent) bleu" after some of the sentences???
At least we now know that the professor is absolutely not a Frenchman. Canadian French indeed! Nobody in Quebec would say something like "grosse poufiasse pleine de soupe"!! No Acadian would say that either!!! Stick with the faux Australian English, professor, eh?
"The Pearl Professor said...
Bien sur je ne crois pas que les commentaires écrits plus tôt viennent de Jewelmer, et le français utilisé était comme celui des canadiens, et non pas dans un bon français."
"Hostie! Toi, mon tabarnac de ciboire de St. Sulpice, tu me fais chier en christ!"
Vous semblez être canadien, c’est le genre d’insultes qu’on entend au Canada, pas en France.
Pourquoi ces jurons je vous prie ? Quel est le sens de votre démarche et pourquoi tenez vous ces propos à mon sujet ?
Maybe just learning to swear in French?
http://www.everything2.com/title/How+to+learn+French+swear+words
Professor, of course I am French Canadian and they are French Canadian insults--what else would they be?
The sense of my comment? It is to illustrate that you know not the difference between continental French and Quebec French. So, professor, you cannot possibly be a Frenchman of any type. That was apparent even before your paltry attempt at analysing the French language. No Frenchman worth his salt ever buys socks at Walmart! Ever!
It's not "swearing in French", it's "swearing in Quebec French", and the sentence I posted is a classic, so of course it would be on the internet as an example of how Quebeckers swear. And now it's in the professor's comment section as an example of how Quebeckers swear. No big secret there. Although it shows the professor is good at Google-ing stuff.
Need any more explanations? Perhaps the professor is just taking written French lessons and needs to practice.
The difference between Continental and Quebec French?
My friend, here is a short French lesson for you.
You wrote “Bonne anniversaire” when you should have written “Bon anniversaire”.
You wrote “Ons a lu pas mal de articles pleins de conneries” when you should have written “ On a lu pas mal d’articles pleins de conneries”.
“Ballot” is an insult oft spoke by French Canadian, but one rarely heard in Continental French for near 100 year.
The sentence “Mais quelle poufiasse grosse plein de soupe!!!” should have pleine, not plein.
To the Canadian, this may look fine “Hi hi chancieux toi!“ But to the French, this is correct “ Quel chanceux tu es !”
This directs one to believe the comments written by La Gang Chez Jewelmer were written by a French Canadian, or someone speaking French well, but not perfect. For the lack of the many accents over the e, and small spelling a grammatical mistakes, the comments were not written in proper French.
Oh for the love of the Marquis de Sade, most of those are TYPOS and even the French can't get their notoriously difficult grammar right. You would know that if you were really French. People don't usually use grammatical aids when writing blog comments, unlike the professor. And we are allowed to forget an accent or two, whether on purpose or by mistake. Look at the terrible use of all the shit English grammar Americans are famous for. Imagine them having to deal with accents on top of getting their sentence and spelling right. Get real professor(!), you think blog comments in France are all written in perfect grammar???????
"Ballot" is never used in French Quebec. I was born there and I've never heard anyone say that! !!!!!!!!!!!!! That is frigging froggy French from France. (you forgot to put an "s" after the word "year", by the way!)
Man, stick to your books professor. All this grammar and spelling nit-picking is starting to make me think Effisk wrote your last post.
Oh and I don't just speak French well, I speak it perfectly well. As well as my English.
(Didn't I write "pleine" instead of "plein" in my last post? Sure the Gang at Jewelmer made an error. Big deal. But you don't see me breaking down their comment into all its errors illustrating how smart I am.)
Prof dude if you analyzed my comments and went through tthem with a fine tooth comb, according to my grammer and spelling I'd be branded as retarded. I'm just American not French.
Written in Continental French:
Dans un asile de fous, deux pensionnaires soutenaient, avec égale vigueur:
- Je suis le seul, le vrai, Napoléon!
Le medecin-chef, après avoir essayé de les raisonner séparément, décida de tenter une expérience. Il les enferma dans la même cellule pour une nuit.
Le lendemain, il questionnait le premier fou:
- Alhors, mon ami, persistz-vous à proclamer que vous êtes Napoléon?
- Oh! Non! fit le jeune homme de Bretagne, en minaudant. Oh! Non! Plus maintenant.
- Et pourquoi?
- Parce que, maintenant, je suis Joséphine.
S'il vous plaît, pouvons-nous discuter de perles?
Bucky, it took me an hour to decifer your sentence. I reread all the comments and nobody was discussing paerls here. There roasting the prof on his birthday and trying to figure out where he is from. I wonder if he knows any german(where's my beer!).German is a lot harder than french. American is the easiest language to make mistakes in.
And here is a short English lesson for YOU!
“Ballot” is an insult oft spoke by French Canadian, but one rarely heard in Continental French for near 100 year."
The above should read:
"Ballot" is an insult oft spoken by French Canadians, but one rarely heard in Continental French for near 100 years.
The sentence “Mais quelle poufiasse grosse plein de soupe!!!” should have pleine, not plein.
The above should read:
The sentence..........should have been pleine, not plein.
You know, professor, if I didn't know any better, I would think your last post was not written by you, but by someone who is part Belgian!
ahhh German. I love German. A romantic and cruel language at the same time.
Yes the prof writes German. He corrected the spelling of a Geothe saying someone posted in an old comment.
Das ist sehr interessant. Sie korrigieren meine englische Muttersprache, während ich Ihre französische Sprache korrigiere.
Möglicherweise bin ich Franzose und täusche nur vor ein Amerikaner zu sein und vielleicht sind Sie ein Amerikaner, der vortäuscht ein Franzose zu sein.
Yes, professor, it would all have been verrrrry interesting but for the fact that I didn't write the "La Gang Chez Jewelmer" comment. Duh! Not only did I not correct your mother tongue(because someone else wrote your post! bonjour Effisk!) but you did not correct my mother tongue either because I AM NOT FRENCH FROM FRANCE and I repeat, did not write the post in question.
You forgot to correct the spelling of Goethe in the previous person's comment, BTW. Are you not yourself today?
wow. the professor is linguistically gifted.
The real test would be if he knows what "Baffoon" means in Japanese. Go ahead proffessor, try it. Linguistic impass! Happy anniversary while your at it.
The Pearl Professor said...
“Ballot” is an insult oft spoke by French Canadian, but one rarely heard in Continental French for near 100 year.
Maybe the person that wrote "ballot" is Jewelmer's oldest employee. Anyway his French grammer and spelling are a lot better than the professor's in the paragraph quoted. Oft spoke?? Near 100 year?? The professor writes like he's "near 100 year" old too.
Possible Pearl Professor sighting:
A few days ago, a man who looked enough like the photo of the Professor to arouse suspicion was sighted in the Darwin Woolworths. Among other items, he had Rice Bubbles and Vegemite in his shopping basket.
No, it can't be him. He doesn't shop at Woolworths. He shops at Walmart and always has a couple of cheap pairs of socks in his shopping cart.
Did he also have a tall Russian bombshell who looks like a dark haired Ksenia Sukhinova wearing red patent leather Manolo Blahnik stilettos, walking beside him?
wtf are Rice Bubbles? or should i even ask...
It's the equivalent of a box of Rice Krispies here in the US. Good thing you didn't ask wtf Vegemite is.
Hey Whatsgoingup Olga and Profesor. I love vodka and Russian women. U ask me y??? I love them both because russian women r so beautiful and vodka is best shit ever. I can maybe live without russian woman with red shoes sometimes but i cant live a day without vodka. Is the best drink ever. Peoples they say that u have to be russian to like vodka. I'm russian and yes i love it. Hey hey profesor, When u drinkin vodka and shopping with ur woman it's best feelin ever. I love RUSSIA.It's best country in world!!!!!I'm gonna arm bar anybody who sais is not. Or who doesn't like vodka!!! Again is the best drink ever....pofesor i have to go hope u r like VODKA bye
Ah yes, the water of life!
Я тебя люблю OLGA!
Ah yes, I agree, thanks to the power of vodka...
Professor, О своей любви я готов слагать легенды !!
Hey hey dude profesor.I completely forget 2 say Happy aniversery 2 u!!!!!!!!Today i drink less vodka b cos last time i totally loose standing up independently ability and fall off chair in front of computer!!!! I forget to make myself nice smoked fish canapes b fore starting drinking....it coats stomach thenI can drink vodka easy.Please come to my place Olga and Profesor 4 RUSSIANParty!!!! U want to know secret of Igors famous KO punch??? VODKA+REDBULL!!!!!!! Dont worry is only deadly if U breath Btween drinking and eating Bye
aren't alcohol and caffeine illegal doping agents?
....is for streetfighting in parkin lot of bar not octogon!!!! Fedor Emelianenko is that U baddest RUSSIAN man on planet??? What up ma man!! Congratulations on TKO!!!!How is UR nose????don't forget to do vodka compress. I try to give u call today Then I remember I flush phone in toylet last week when i nail my grilfreind in bathroom with special grappling technik. bye
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It's not me you stupid.
Fedya!!! I miss UR second wedding last month only in RUSSIa a big man looking like bear from Siberian tunguska crater can marry beutiful woman if he is famous B cos she is thinking u will b dead from Vodka and heart troubles soon. Russian women they should be # 1 export to AMERIca!!Extremelly hot RUSSIAN girls instead of shit LADA. bye
Igor, you should have been at the Pearl Paradise ruckus.
yeah some people there were in a worse drunken stupor than Igor seems to be
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