Bob wrote:
> Carol wrote:
>
> > I took a mussel at a different place a couple years ago, and once I
got
> > it to the table, I couldn't eat it. It looked a lot like something
that
> > gynecologists look at all day.
>
> Y'know, wild mussels grow "beards": a network of little silky
filaments
> (zoologists refer to them as "byssi"). They use the filaments to
cling to
> rocks (or pilings,or whatever).
>
> Dunno whether that strengthens or weakens the gynecologist analogy
for you.

<Damsel starts running in place and waving her arms wildly in the air>
No, that wasn't part of my observation at all. I'm not sure if I'm
going to be able to sleep tonight or not. {shudder} I'm glad Crash is
here to protect me from things in shells that go bump in the night.
My apologies to straight men and *** women who find this more
attractive than I do.

I didn't see your response, nor even my original post. So I did some
checking, and it turns out I had filtered "mussel*". DUH.

Carol